Tribe’s film, video and installation works are meditations on cognition, using image, text, and sound to explore what she calls “the phenomenology of memory.” Often working with multiple projections and timed loops, her installations are designed to structurally underscore the content of her work. Tribe’s fascination with the literal mechanics of moving images suggests that the medium is capable of mirroring cognitive processes in profoundly generative ways. She rarely disguises the apparatus of her work’s presentation, instead incorporating the machinery into the presentation of the project. Tribe’s use of film, video, audiotape and  often customized looping systems works as a commentary on memory, physically emulating how it functions in the brain.
- Corinna Peipon

Tribe’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre, London and Arnolfini, Bristol and will be at Modern Art, Oxford and the Power Plant, Toronto. It has also been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; Kunst Werke, Berlin; and SMAK, Gent. Her work is in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Orange County Museum of Art and The Generali Foundation among others. She was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2005-2006, received her MFA from UCLA in 2002, was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow in 1997-98 and received her BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1997. Tribe is represented by 1301PE in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works.