Tshay
Artist & Founder, Studio TSHAY
(b. Amityville, NY)
Tshay is a Jamaican-American filmmaker and artist from Amityville, NY. She is a writer, director, producer, shooter, and editor who uses filmmaking to imagine a world where Black people have full creative agency over their lives. Working in close collaboration with loved ones, Tshay creates films across documentary, fiction and hybrid forms, namely her debut narrative short film, gales., which screened at BlackStar Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and a number of universities and organizations worldwide. She is the recipient of awards from Art Works, Sachs Arts, and Independence Public Media Foundation, and holds degrees from both University of Pennsylvania and University College London. She is currently developing her debut animated film, TELL ME WHEN YOU GET HOME., through her production company Studio Tshay.
In the News
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Sachs Arts
WITNESS is a joint undertaking of curator Tshay Williams and producer Farrah Rahaman which proposes a public art portrait series…
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The Philadelphia Citizen
Tshay Williams is a filmmaker and screenwriter who focuses on making portraits that celebrate Black lives. Williams has worked with…
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Generocity
The Art Works Grant’s inaugural class consisted of four emerging artists and five community art organizations, including filmmaker Tshay Williams, choreographer Jorge Rullán Fantauzzi, Scribe Video Center, BlackStar, and 12 Gates Arts…