Kelly Tsai is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist & performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working at the intersection of music, dance, photography, film, fashion, & technology.

In 2025, Kelly's "SKyGiRLS" photo series has been selected for exhibition by Site:Brooklyn, The Curated Fridge, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Exposure Photography Festival / Contemporary Calgary, Create! Magazine, and as a Passepartout Photo Prize Honorable Mention. As a dancer and choreographer, she debuted as a burlesque performer at "Hot & Fresh" at House of Yes and premiered a new pole dance solo at Incredipole's Pride Showcase.

In 2024, Kelly's "SKyGiRLS" photo series was published in F-Stop Magazine, selected as a Lensculture Emerging Talent Award Editor's Pick, and exhibited at Satellite Art Fair in Brooklyn, NY. She premiered solo choreographic works as a pole dancer at Incredipole's 9th Anniversary Leather Party and as an experimental heels dancer at Folly's Haven at ArtX Gallery. She was a featured pole performer in Dey Phoenix's ensemble at Body & Pole. She also participated in Performance Space New York's Summer Studio creating new works in music and dance.

In 2023, her episodic television pilot was selected for development by the Athena Film Festival Writers’ Lab. Her poetry and sound design were commissioned for Hii Magazine’s “PUNK IN THE POST-APOCALYPSE” issue. Her “SKyGiRLS” photo series was also selected to exhibit at SUPERFINE! Art Fair (DC), Armstrong Gallery (CT), and Aqua Art Fair (Miami) and as a Curious Elixirs Curious Creators Grant Finalist (top 3% of over 1400 entries).

In 2022, Kelly was commissioned by Fotografiska x VICE to write and perform a series of original poems inspired by the “Andy Warhol: Photo Factory” exhibit. As a dancer, she performed as a vogue femme performer at the Socrates Sculpture Park and the Princess Grace Awards Gala and was selected for the GLUE x Trisk Workshop and NVA & Guests Workshop as a contemporary dancer. As a designer, she co-designed and solo constructed the grand prize winning garment for Drags Runway at the 2022 Latex Ball at Terminal 5.

In 2021, Kelly's solo dance works and films were presented by Abrons Arts Center and developed at Movement Research Center. Kelly also composed, performed, and produced the music for these works. Her SKyGiRLS photo series (where she embodies intriguing women of the Chinese diaspora) was exhibited at Camera of the Month Club’s 2021 “The Personal is Political” group show. She was also selected for 5th Wall Forum’s 2021 Immersive Storytelling Connectors program and NYU’s 2021 ITP Camp for interactive creative technology. Her poetry was featured at the 20th Anniversary of Lincoln Center’s La Casita and in a typography collaboration with artist Olga Mezhibovskaya and the School of Visual Arts.

In 2020, she was accepted into Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective to develop her first narrative feature screenplay. In 2019, she was chosen for the Adidas Nitejogger #Beatmakers Lab for music production and released four instrumental tracks. Her award-winning animated film collaboration with Ryan Hartley Smith, “To Find Your Place in the World,” was projected on the Manhattan Bridge for the 2019 Light Year art exhibit. In 2018, Kelly was an actress on the HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness.” Her memoir-in-progress, The Invisible Word, won the 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Nonfiction and was nominated for the 2019 New York Community Trust Ellen Levine Prize.