photo by Ell Treese

hamsa fae (b. Los Angeles) is a Vietnamese-French contemporary artist who works across expanded performance, technology, and social engagement.

With a decade of practice in land-based animism, she positions the body as a site of re-matriation. Her work as an artist is directly influenced by the political and spiritual mundane of trans womanhood. Through embodied actions, she cams with strangers online, walks a nude runway, plucks leg hair for several hours, and loops spectator voices for ancestral expression. Her eco-performances also translate into video and sound installations, employing internet nostalgia to queer codes of endurance and temporality. She invites audiences to participate in her site-specific interventions, archiving collective ritual to confront the cultural erasure of third gender peoples.

In 2026, she continues her research in feminine desire economies, especially within digital intimacy, sex work, and the loneliness epidemic: How might the cyber body reclaim agency and power within networks of erotic labor? And if we are all cam girls in the surveillance state of algorithmic media, what are the expectations of online and IRL femininity?

In 2025, she was awarded the CE Artist & Creative Grant (CA), AHL Women Artist Fellowship (NY), and founded the AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship (CA). Her work have been shown bi-coastally at Minnesota Street Project, tiat, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, AHL Foundation, Bread + Salt, Athenaeum Art Center, and The Front. She carries publications in diaCritics, Vănguard, Transgender Law Center, the Yale School of Environment, alongside her poetry collection, Blood Frequency (2022).