Dan Miller

Drying Out, 2019

You Walk Into: An exhibition of street jokes and long phases at the legendary Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

Drying Out, 2019
Immature fruits of Luffa acutangula
Installation view, You Walk Into, Rainbo Club, Nov 2019
Also shown, at right: Jen Delos Reyes

Drying Out, 2019
Immature fruits of Luffa acutangula
Installation view, You Walk Into, Rainbo Club, Nov 2019

Untitled series of seven garments (with Aaron Walker), 2018

Presented by Ox-Bow at Chicago Art Book Fair 2018

Screen printed cotton t-shirt, 2018
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
From an untitled series of seven garments (with Aaron Walker)

Pirate drive-in cinema screening (with Aaron Walker & WXBO/Mac Akin), 2018

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI

Invitation card, WXBO/Free Box Drive-In Cinema, 2018
Letterpress print on pigmented paper, 6 7/8 x 11″

Handkerchiefs and Flowers (with Aaron Walker), 2018

Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Installation view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April–May 2018

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Installation view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April–May 2018
Photo by RCH

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Installation view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April–May 2018

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Installation view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April–May 2018
Photo by RCH

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Installation view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April–May 2018

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Performance view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April 2018
Audience-performer pictured: David Langkamp
Photo by Meg Noe

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Performance view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April 2018
Audience-performers pictured: Philip Fang and Jan Brugger
Photo by Meg Noe

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Performance view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April 2018
Audience-performer pictured: Max Guy
Photo by Meg Noe

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Performance view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April 2018
Audience-performer pictured: Mary Eleanor Wallace
Photo by Meg Noe

Dan Miller and Aaron Walker, Handkerchiefs and Flowers, 2018
Performance view, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, April 2018
Audience-performers pictured: Jan Brugger and Fran Lightbound
Photo by Meg Noe

Work with Thomas Kong, 2014–19

An experimental collaboration

For more information on Thomas Kong, visit thomaskong.biz

Left: Business card for Kim’s Corner Food, c.late 1980s/early 1990s
Right: Dan Miller/Thomas Kong, Business card for Kim’s Corner Food and Thomas Kong (back and front), 2015

Dan Miller/Thomas Kong, ‘Be Happy’ stickers (gothic version), 2016

Dan Miller/Thomas Kong (with Steven Husby), Logo for Kim’s Corner Food, 2016

Dan Miller/Thomas Kong (with Steven Husby), shopping baskets for Kim’s Corner Food, 2016
Produced by Dan Miller as Earn like a dog, spend like a king, 2016
16 15/16 x 12 1/4 x 9 1/4″ (folded). Edition of 6 + 3 AP
12 out-of-edition copies in use at Kim’s Corner Food, 1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL

Thomas Kong and Dan Miller at Kim’s Corner Food, 2016
Photo by Ruby T

Thomas Kong, Be Happy, 2015–17
Public mural, Rogers Park, Chicago, IL
Painted by Kristin & Nathan Abhalter Smith, Steven Husby, Dan Miller, Cole Pierce, Kit Rosenberg, Ruby T & Alice Tippit. Coordinated by Roman Susan Art Foundation

Installation view, Thomas Kong, Fillerup, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL, Mar-May 2016
Organized by Dan Miller. Curated by Dawn Grayford, Nadia Ivanova, Rhonda Massel Donovan, Libbi Ponce, Jessi Ramirez & Emiliano Settecasi

Installation view, Thomas Kong, TCB, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Aug 2016
Organized by Dan Miller
Photo by Christo Crocker

Installation view, Thomas Kong, TCB, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Aug 2016
Organized by Dan Miller
Left: untitled artist book by Dan Miller, risograph on paper, 12 pages, 8 1/2 x 11″. Edition of 60 (download pdf)
Right: room sheet/checklist, laser print on copy paper, 8 1/2 x 11″ (download pdf)
Photo by Christo Crocker

The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, 2015–19

Experimental project space and artwork repository, Rogers Park, Chicago, IL

With Thomas Kong & Nathan Abhalter Smith

For more information and project archive, visit thomaskong.biz/thebackroom

Kim’s Corner Food, Exterior, 2016

Aaron Walker, / e, Aug-Oct 2017

Selected by Maddie Reyna, Oct 2015-Jan 2016

Instructions for visiting The Back Room, 2015

Selected by Steven Husby, Jan-Apr 2016

The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Interior, 2017
Repository for collage and assemblage artwork by Thomas Kong

Alice Tippit, Don’t Hate the Sky, Aug-Oct 2016
Exhibition opening

Jenn Smith, Name In Vain, Dec 2016-Feb 2017

Ruby T, TENSES, May-Jul 2017

Starworld Anna Kim, At Starworld Right Now, Feb-Apr 2017

Joshua Kent, flier for REALFAKE: Joshua Kent and Thomas Kong, Jul-Aug 2016

Max Guy, Sotoba Komachi, Oct-Dec 2016
Performance view, Yukio Mishima's Sotoba Komachi, Adapted & Directed by Max Guy, Dec 2016

Jesse Malmed as Dramaturge-in-Residence, Collage Rock / Ten Tiny Plays / Teared Up: A Film Screening, Jun 2018
Performance view, Madeleine Aguilar

Robin Hustle, flier for SLIT WAVE SHEATH HEARTH, Dec 2017-Feb 2018

Meg Dugid, Production of Nuclear Winter, Oct-Dec 2017
Performance view, exhibition closing, Dec 2017

Jesse Malmed as Dramaturge-in-Residence, Some Things Should Go!, Jun 2018
Performance view, Auctioneer Richard Wright and Jesse Malmed

Alejandro T. Acierto as Archivist-in-Residence, Kills time, Jul 2018
Exhibition opening

Robin Hustle as Ruth-in-Residence, Careful Material Book Release, Mar 2019
Performance view, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson

2013–2018, 2017

Outside Jokes, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

2013–2018, 2017
Authenticated bricks
Installation view, Outside Jokes, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

2013–2018, 2017 (detail)
Authenticated bricks
Installation view, Outside Jokes, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

If you need a name for this piece the paint color is called Peppercorn, 2017

The Luminary, St. Louis, MO

Read interview with The Luminary here

Documentation of work performed (after)

Documentation of work performed (before)

Checking all the can lights [sic] bulbs to see if they work, there are a lot of them, 2017

DEMO Project, Springfield, IL

Documentation of work being done
Photo by Brytton Bjorngaard

Earn like a dog, spend like a king, 2016

Lake Cream, Block Museum, Evanston, IL

Earn like a dog, spend like a king, 2016
Screen printed plastic shopping baskets, unpackaged merchandise from Kim’s Corner Food, 1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL
Installation view, Lake Cream, Block Museum, Evanston, IL, May–Jun 2016

Earn like a dog, spend like a king, 2016 (detail)
Screen printed plastic shopping baskets, unpackaged merchandise from Kim’s Corner Food, 1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL
Installation view, Lake Cream, Block Museum, Evanston, IL, May–Jun 2016
Leaf by Max Guy

Traer el pueblo al arte (after la Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo), 2016

Western Pole, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

Traer el pueblo al arte (after la Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo), 2016
Laser print on copy paper, 8 1/2 x 11″
Installation view, Western Pole, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jesse Malmed

On Terms On Which We All Agree, 2015

Axis and Allies, Midway Studios, The University of Chicago

On terms on which we all agree, 2015
Verbatim vocal re-performance of interview with Paul Keating, John Laws Morning Show, 2UE Radio, Sydney, 1993. 15′53″, looped. Battery-operated radio, digital audio player, FM radio transmitter, electronic components, 13 x 20.5 x 5.5 cm (folded)
Installation view, Axis and Allies, Midway Studios, The University of Chicago, May 2015

Foot-notes (ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ), 2015

A project by 3-ply

The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Inside the panorama, 2015. Printed email
Installation view, Foot-notes (ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ), The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sep-Nov 2015. A project by 3-ply
Download pdf here

After the Victory, 2015. Audio file, 34' 20" (looped)
Installation view, Foot-notes (ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ), The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sep-Nov 2015. A project by 3-ply

Having Cheese Makes You Happy, 2014

West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Download exhibition catalog here

Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Our Bank, 2014. Stamp ink on book page, push pin, modified office pinboard, picture framing glass, 41 x 52 x 2 cm, ed. 1/2
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Our Bank, 2014. Stamp ink on book page, push pin, modified office pinboard, picture framing glass, 41 x 52 x 2 cm, ed. 1/2 (detail)
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Gold Watch (for Steve), 2014. Oil on canvas, 2.6 x 3.0 m
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Gold Watch (for Steve), 2014. Oil on canvas, 2.6 x 3.0 m (detail)
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Gold Watch (for Steve), 2014. Oil on canvas, 2.6 x 3.0 m (detail)
Your Office Is Ready, 2014. 600 x 1200 mm suspended ceiling grid, mineral fibre acoustic ceiling tiles, fluorescent light troffers, dimensions variable (detail)
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Your Office Is Ready, 2014. 600 x 1200 mm suspended ceiling grid, mineral fibre acoustic ceiling tiles, fluorescent light troffers, dimensions variable (detail)
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014

Steve Miller Reads Who Moved My Cheese?, 2013. Voice recording on microcassette, 46′25″, looped. Microcassette recorder on modified office desk, 74 x 25 x 25 cm
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014