Cody Tracy is an interdisciplinary media artist, writer, and scholar exploring labor, mortality, memory, and working-class archives, shaped by his background in a Slavic immigrant family in Illinois. Working across photography, cyanotype, essay film, poetry, and audio, his research-driven practice investigates material labor and cultural circulation.

His recent project Prothonotary (2026) is in the permanent collection of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and his solargraphy workshop is slated for the Society for Photography Education’s (SPE) Annual Conference in March 2027.

His ongoing scholarship and research focus heavily on rural infrastructure and the politics of place. This trajectory includes his National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship submission 81 Bus Stops of Jackson County alongside a critical photo-essay currently under review with Afterimage entitled The Gallery as Ruin.

Tracy’s extensive contributions span publications in Protean Magazine, Aeonian, and Digital America, presentations at SCMS, the Davenport Prize in Nonfiction, and his current role as an Adjunct Professor at Johnson County Community College.