AIPAD Talks: Depth of Field, with Artist Tommy Kha and Higher Pictures

Описание: Watch this talk with acclaimed artist and Guggenheim Fellow Tommy Kha in conversation with Milly Cai, Partner at AIPAD Member gallery Higher Pictures in Brooklyn, NY, as they discuss Tommy Kha: Leftovers, running at the gallery through February 7th, 2026.

The exhibition - a kaleidoscopic and multi-layered installation of fragments of photographs of food, fruit, household objects, family, and staged as an interior - showcases the images printed on a variety of materials including paper, aluminum, and fabric. One visitor described the scene as a “form of gardening, cultivation,” to Kha, who also wrote, “My act of recycling stems from my grandmother’s way of starting her gardens: reusing the leftover herbs and spices from takeout…I’ve looked at Baroque paintings, various Eastern still lifes in watercolors and offerings in Buddhist and Daoist temples, markets that lay out produce and knicknacks, to Chinese-Vietnamese Folkloric Practices of joss paper objects and hell money.”

Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, TN) is a photographer working between Brooklyn, New York, and Memphis, Tennessee. He holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University, where he currently teaches. Kha is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Hayes Prize, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo Fund, and an NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Aperture, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He has had solo exhibitions at Higher Pictures, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery. Kha’s first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter, was published by Aperture in February 2023. He joined Higher Pictures in 2022, and currently studies kung fu under Sifu Ken Lo. Kha's exhibition at the Addison Gallery in Andover, MA is open through January 25, 2026, with a catalog now available. Please contact the Addison Gallery for more information on purchasing the catalog.

Installation image courtesy of Tommy Kha and Higher Pictures