Tom Muller was born in Basel (1975), trained in Italy and Australia, and mentored by the illustrious Ilya Kabakov in New York. His practice to date has combined a sophisticated understanding of visual languages and utopian vision with a focused investigation into universally adopted processes and protocols. To this end, Muller has issued worlwide passports online (World Passport, 2000 -), posed as the concierge of a hotel, released a limited edition of 24 carat cards complete with instructions for melting (Gold Card, 2006), and opened a supermarket for limited edition works (Supermart, 2004). Politically provocative, these projects each reflect an interest in the circulation of value and meaning through global systems of exchange. His work has been exhibited in the prestigious Primavera exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Australian Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Melbourne Art Fair and at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Muller has also been the recipient of numerous residencies and awards including the Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award from the Qantas Foundation.

"As icebergs melt, water courses dry, and water becomes a perennial question not only for country, but city dwellers alike, the utopianism of these projects is neither naive, nor folly. At a time when we need to search for alternative answers, Muller's proposals have a compelling and plausible ring. Abstracted, computerised, and consumerised into forms that a 21st century viewer will find all too familiar in our oversaturated mass-market economy of imagery, Muller's proposals for a global language or lexicon of images and international symbols of modernist art that makes sense in different countries, to different people, is far from fantasy."
(Rebecca Coates, from ' Tom Muller, Elemental Worlds catalogue, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, November 2008)