Ken Tisa

Public collections Ken Tisa's work is included in the public collections of the La Salle University Art Museum.

A series of artist's books that was made in collaboration with Kenward Elmslie and contains unique drawings by Ken Tisa is included in the National Gallery of Australia.

Notable exhibitions Ken Tisa was included in the Whitney Biennial 1975: Contemporary American Art.

Tisa was included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1981 exhibition New York/New Wave. In 1989, his work was included in Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing curated by Nan Goldin at Artists Space. The exhibition was organized in response to the ongoing AIDS epidemic and included work by Vittorio Scarpati, Greer Lankton, and others. The exhibition became the subject of public debate when John E. Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts revoked the $10,000 grant awarded to the nonprofit gallery, a decision Frohmayer claimed was due to the overtly political nature of David Wojnarowicz's catalogue essay.

Published in 2021, Tisa was interviewed and discussed prominently in Svetlana Kitto's oral history of Sara Penn's Knobkerry, accompanying an exhibition at SculptureCenter focusing on Penn's legacy and her multipurpose business. Kitto began her oral history after researching a catalogue for Tisa's 2017 exhibition at Gordon Robichaux Gallery, Objects/Time/Offerings. During her research Kitto frequently came across Penn's name and mentions of Knobkerry.

In 2013, Tisa's work was part of a group show at Kate Werble Gallery commemorating Village Voice writer and lesbian separatist, Jill Johnston–the exhibition was titled in the hopes of not being considered.

Reception Tisa's work has received critical attention and has been reviewed in Artforum magazine and the New York Times.