We are pleased to announce the release of Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, the publication accompanying the Addison’s 2025 Hayes Prize exhibition featuring artist Tommy Kha. In this exhibition, Kha presented work that was influenced by his own history, having grown up as a queer child in an immigrant family whose multigenerational journey from China through Vietnam ultimately led to the American South. His work emerges from this complex intersection of identities and histories, expanding conventional notions of self-portraiture through his unique visual language.
This fully-illustrated volume, edited by Assistant Curator Rachel Vogel, documents Kha’s Addison exhibition and includes an essay by Jane Ursula Harris and poems by Ocean Vuong inspired by Kha’s work.
The publication retails for $25 and can be purchased in the Addison’s museum shop or ordered by phone at 978.749.4015.
The Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. Prize is awarded every other year by the Addison Artist Council (AAC). The AAC builds on the Addison’s nearly century-long commitment to supporting living artists. The museum’s storied history includes many “firsts” with exhibitions, acquisitions, or residencies by such highly regarded artists as Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Hicks, Hans Hofmann, Andy Warhol, and Francesca Woodman. The Hayes Prize continues this extraordinary tradition by providing an emerging and/or under-recognized artist their first ever solo show at a collecting museum, along with a publication, acquisition of art for the collection, and an artist’s residency on campus.