Kerry Tribe

Kerry Tribe (born 1973) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work includes video, film and sound installations, sculpture, performance, drawing and photography. Tribe's art investigates subjective aspects of consciousness such as memory, language, cognition, and empathy through subjects including medical conditions and clinical training, historical incidents, and collective and personal experience. Critics observe that her work frequently explores how anomalies—for example, disorders of communication and mental processing or unusual occurrences—can reveal how systems function and present unexpected opportunities for shared understanding. Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid commented, "Tribe’s art makes a corollary between the gaps in our own circuitry and the gulfs we cross to comprehend someone else’s experience … offering hope we can connect in the not knowing, and persevere alongside each other."

Tribe's work belongs to the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Hammer Museum, among others. She has exhibited at the latter four institutions, and others including The Power Plant, the High Line in New York and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In 2017, she received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for film and video.