Tommy Kha
Upcoming Events/Exhibitions:
my hands are monsters who believe in magic
Group Exhibition
25 April - 3 August 2025
Opening: Sunday, 4 May, 1P-3:30P
Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
ICP Photobook Club
31 May 2025, 11A-1P
International Center for Photography
New York, NY
Anderman Photography Lecture Series
3 June 2025, 6P-7P
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Funny Business: Photography and Humor
Group Exhibition
14 June 2025 - 4 January 2026
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, AZ
Tod Papageorge: In the Pool: On Influence
Group Exhibition
26 June - 12 October 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut
Westport, CT
Spirit House
Traveling Group Exhibition
26 July 2025 - 11 January 2026
Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Other Things Uttered
First Museum Solo Exhibition
4 September 2025 - 19 January 2026
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
The Chain Letter Project (No. 2): A Collective Memory
The Chain Letter Project (No. 1) was first presented as
an extension of Kha’s 2023 solo exhibtion in Baxter St’s Project Space. The Chain Letter Project is a collective memory contributed to by AAPI friends from across the United States over the last year. This first iteration of the project comprises around 700 photographs. The second iteration is co-authored by the teachers and students of Philips Academy.
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Dear ____________,
Thank you for participating in this art chain letter project! Through the Addison Gallery, I am collecting images along the themes of “family” and “community.” We are accepting pictures from smartphones, point and shoot cameras, DSLR, any picture medium that follows the prompts below. A limited disposable cameras will be distributed from designated support, feel free to pass around the camera (be sure to return it!).
All images will be printed and will be installed as a photo’ collage wall, being added on to over the exhibition period.
You can make a picture of 1) whatever you choose in the theme of “community” and “collage” and/or 2) you can choose one of the following prompts.
1. Gather and arrange a community of red objects and photograph it.
2. How do you make a portrait of a person without photographing them? How would you make a non-portrait portrait?
3. Make a group portrait, can you be in it too?
4. Photograph your favorite door in your local area.
5. Find a familiar place with a large mirror. Make a selfie with another person showing the camera in the frame.
6. Create a mask, document the process of making the mask. Have a family member wear it.
7. Photograph your favorite sign near your home/community.
8. Photograph your favorite item with someone you trust holding it.
9. Photograph a graffiti, a mural, or chalk drawing.
10. Make a picture of an eyeball, real or fictive.
11. My prompt is: photograph an obsession. – Richard Choi
12. Photograph an interaction. – Marie Arago
13. Photograph food pictures—specifically restaurant pictures and grocery shopping. – Alison Kuo
14. Photograph a storefront (that is colorful). – Alison Kuo
15. More abstractly, photograph something you wouldn’t want to part with. – Alison Kuo
16. Find and photograph place that share letters in your name (first or last).
17. Make and photograph a shrine/a memorial dedicated to a real person.
18. Make a picture with your friends navigating your way in a new place.
19. Make a picture from behind you (without looking through the view finder) while waiting in line with people.
20. Use the flash on a reflective surface at a friend’s room.
21. Make a picture of your favorite window of a neighbor.
22. Make a picture of your parents’ collection.
23. Make a picture where you would tell a secret to a friend.
24. Photograph an interaction.
25. Restage a friend’s family picture from their memory.
26. Photograph a neighbor’s favorite source of water/a body of water.
27. Make a picture of a “collage”
Please note, this list is subject to change and expand.
-TK
Updated 2025.