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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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