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
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
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, 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
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
Organized by Dan Miller. Curated by Dawn Grayford, Nadia Ivanova, Rhonda Massel Donovan, Libbi Ponce, Jessi Ramirez & Emiliano Settecasi
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
Organized by Dan Miller. Curated by Dawn Grayford, Nadia Ivanova, Rhonda Massel Donovan, Libbi Ponce, Jessi Ramirez & Emiliano Settecasi
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
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
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
Photo by Christo Crocker
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
Photo by Christo Crocker
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
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
Repository for collage and assemblage artwork by Thomas Kong
Alice Tippit, Don’t Hate the Sky, Aug-Oct 2016
Exhibition opening
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
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
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
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
Performance view, Auctioneer Richard Wright and Jesse Malmed
Alejandro T. Acierto as Archivist-in-Residence, Kills time, Jul 2018
Exhibition opening
Exhibition opening
Robin Hustle as Ruth-in-Residence, Careful Material Book Release, Mar 2019
Performance view, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson
Performance view, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Having Cheese Makes You Happy, 2014
West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Installation view, Having Cheese Makes You Happy, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Jun-Jul 2014
Plinth Projects, 2013–14
Artist-run public art program, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Co-founded and co-directed by Dan Miller & Jeremy Pryles (with Sam George, Carla McKee, Ben Ryan & Isabelle Sully)
For more information and project archive, visit plinthprojects.com
Installation view, Plinth Projects, Opening Picnic, Oscar Perry, Harvest Showdown / Early Classics, Hits and Rarities
Photo by Kobie Nel
Photo by Kobie Nel
Installation view, Plinth Projects, Opening Picnic, Oscar Perry, Harvest Showdown / Early Classics, Hits and Rarities
Photo by Kobie Nel
Photo by Kobie Nel
Installation view, Hossein Ghaemi, Bush Node and the Second Fiddle
Plinth Projects, Mar 2014
Plinth Projects, Mar 2014
Installation view, Annie Wu at Plinth Projects, Nov 2013
Installation view, Lane Cormick, Bulc Public
Plinth Projects, Dec 2013
Plinth Projects, Dec 2013
Installation view, Nick Selenitsch, Folly
Plinth Projects, Apr 2014
Plinth Projects, Apr 2014
Installation view, Nathan Gray, Queen Size
Plinth Projects, Jan 2014
Plinth Projects, Jan 2014
Installation view, Spiros Panigirakis, A TENTATIVE SIGN
Plinth Projects, Apr 2013
Plinth Projects, Apr 2013
Installation view, Renee Cosgrave at Plinth Projects, Oct 2013
Installation view, Renee Cosgrave at Plinth Projects, Oct 2013 (detail)
Performance view, Technopia Tours, Lost in Edinburgh
Plinth Projects, Feb 2014
Plinth Projects, Feb 2014