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Spanning art, technology and science, Victoria Pham is an Australian artist, evolutionary biologist, writer and composer. She is based between Paris and Sydney. Originally trained as an archaeologist, she holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, St John's College. As a composer, she trained under the tutelage of Richard Gill OAM, Liza Lim, Carl Vine AO, Gerard Brophy and Thierry Escaich.

 

Victoria is represented by the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist where a collection of her scores are available. Currently, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Debris Magazine, lead artist in the RE:SOUNDING project with James Nguyen, and co-lead artist in the collective SONANT BODIES with James Hazel. She was the host and producer of podcast series DECLASSIFY (2020-2022)  and co-founded and directed FABLE ARTS from (2020-2023).

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Her works have been performed, exhibited and commissioned across Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Europe. She has been commissioned by and exhibited in a number of galleries and ensembles such as the TATE Britain, the Sydney Opera House, Australian Contemporary Centre for Art (ACCA), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Arts House Melbourne, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. She has featured as a lead artist in international art festivals, including VIVID (2015-16), TINA (2018), Tilde: New Sounds (2019), BLEED (2020), ANTIDOTE (2022), HOMO NOVUS Latvia (2023), amongst others. 

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As an evolutionary biologist and archaeologist, her specialisation is in bioacoustics, the evolution of sound-signalling and acoustic mapping technologies. Victoria has worked with several international museums and institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and has conducted solo fieldwork around the world with the support of UNESCO. 

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Central to her work is sound where her artistic practice is driven by explorations into the sonic connections across nature; practices of decolonisation and listening deeply. The hallmark of her interdisciplinary practice is her belief that Nature is a collaborator to her design, research and sound-based work. Victoria continues to pursue her work in bio-design through research into bioacoustics and mycology which inform the cross-form approaches that structure her creative process. This is emblematic in 2023 when she founded bio-design and acoustic ecology studio, EARTHLY FUTURES, based in Paris, France.

 

Aside from her installation practice, she continues to work as a sound practitioner, often collaborating with fellow creatives as a music producer, sound engineer, performer, and sound designer. 

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To request her commercial and film/tv resume, please contact Victoria here

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To access Victoria's academic credentials, click here.

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SOLOS SHOWS

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2023

'Frozen Fungi' as part of EARTHEN at CEMENT FONDU Gallery

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2022

TERRA: Memory + Soil, co- commissioned by West Space Gallery, Liquid Architecture and Centre for Projection Art. Collaboration with architect, Joel Sherwood Spring

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DOMESTICUS VENUS, Kings Gallery (Melbourne, Australia)

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2021

IF YOU TURN YOU CAN SEE ME, Galerie V (United Kingdom)

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2018

Impressions and Metamorphosis at Maitland Regional Art Gallery

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COLLABORATION  & GROUP SHOWS

 

2024

Listening Garden ii - soil fields , Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Sonic Travellers - with James Nguyen, BUS PROJECTS

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2023

beneath water's skin, future drowns memory at Seventh Gallery

Listening Garden i at Yellow Cube Gallery, Paris

RE:SOUNDING as part of MÍNH, Fairfield City Art Gallery and Museum

Chihuahua Dragon, sound and scenography for Paris Fashion Week

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2022

FAMILY FROM A BOX, TATE Britain

A Drumstick is a Hammer, in collaboration with James Nguyen. Anna Schwartz Gallery (Australia)

RE:TUNING, in collaboration with James Nguyen. Commissioned by the Sydney Opera House and Arrow Collective for ANTIDOTE

Who's Afraid of Public Space? at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,

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2021

Co Gai Mau Do for ZAO TANG (Nottinghill, London)

RE:SOUNDING (Winter Season), with James Nguyen for Samstag Museum of Art 

RE:SOUNDING (CONNECT I and II) with James Nguyen for Footscray Community Arts Centre

Eternal Ephemerie at IESA Galerie, Paris (France)

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2020

RE:SOUNDING, in collaboration with James Nguyen

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2019

Continu/um for Watts Space Gallery, with James Hazel 

Continu/um for Testing Grounds, with James Hazel 

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2018

SONANT BODIES EXHIBITION, in collaboration with James Hazel. At Maitland Regional Art Gallery

A Aurore, in celebration of the Lady and the Unicorn, Art Gallery of New South Wales

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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details coming soon...

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CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Co-Artistic Director of FABLE ARTS (UK/FR: 2020 - ) and Host of podcast DECLASSIFY (2020-2022)

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2023

Co-curator of THRESHOLD, with Lamorna Nightingale and Backstage Music Australia

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2022

MONOPOLY: TERRA, co-curator with Debris Facility, for Liquid Architecture

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2019

Co-curator and producer for MicroFiction Installations at the Newcastle Writers' Festival with Spineless Wonders Australia

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RESIDENCIES and FESTIVALS

 

2024

CULTURE LAB: Development of experimental opera 'The Songs of Mycelia' ​ - Arts House Melbourne

Mudhouse Residency - Crete, Greece

 

2023

Composer-in-residence, European-Australian Chamber Music Festival ​

 

2022

RE:TUNING Major Commission for ANTIDOTE FESTIVAL. Commissioned by the Sydney Opera House and ARROW

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Artistic Residency at Metal Culture UK (Peterborough)

Artistic Residency with Centre for Projection Art (Australia)

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2020         

BLEED FESTIVAL: RE:SOUNDING ,in collaboration with artist James Nguyen commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre and ArtsHouse Melbourne  support from Create NSW and Australian Arts Council (2019-2020)                

 

2019         

Tilde New Music and Arts Festival, Melbourne

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 21st Century Cybec Composers 

 

2018

TINA Festival Crack Theatre X Festival

 

2016 + 2017

VIVID Festival, Australia

Surry Hills Pop-Art Festival

Sydney Fringe Festival

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FUNDING + GRANTS

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2024

Ian Potter Cultural Trust - Emerging Artists' Grant

Culture Moves Europe - Goethe Institut

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2023

The Art Music Fund (APRA AMCOS)

Finalist for Professional Development Award, APRA AMCOS

Finalist for Footscray Art Prize

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2022

Finalist for Wyndham Art Prize 

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2021

Arts Council of England: Developing Your Creative Practice

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2019

Create NSW Artists' Grant

Create NSW Young Leaders' Fellowship

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2018

Create NSW Artists' Grant

Semi-finalist NSW Young Achiever's Arts Award 

Henry Lawson Prize for Prose

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