Isola Tong (b. October 10, 1987, Pasay City, Philippines) works in architecture, sound, photography, performance, video, publishing, and installation focusing on counter-memory involoving socially engaged methods, ecopoetics, archival research and pedagogy. She currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California. Her intersectional practice involves themes of postcolonial identity, transfeminism, animism, mythology, nature, violence, migration and hauntings through the lens of a subaltern trans-Pinay, herself haunted by the horrors of Philippine history, eco-colonial violence, and displacement.
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