Victoria Pham is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, evolutionary biologist, sound designer, producer and writer. She is based in Paris, France. Her work explores deep listening, decolonial practice, bio-design, and gardening and cooking as acts of nourishment and resistance. Her installations, performances, and collaborations reflect a commitment to listening as a political, ecological, and embodied practice.
She holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and was originally trained as an archaeologist, composer and sound engineer, under the tutelage of Richard Gill OAM, Liza Lim, Carl Vine AO, Gerard Brophy, and Thierry Escaich.
Her work has been exhibited across Australia, UK, USA and Europe. and commissioned by Tate Britain (2021), the Sydney Opera House (2022), ACCA (2022), Art Gallery of New South Wales (2018), Arts House Melbourne (2023, 2024), and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2020), among others. She has been featured in international festivals including BLEED (2020), VIVID (2015), ANTIDOTE (2022), and HOMO NOVUS (Latvia, 2023).
Victoria is the founder of EARTHLY FUTURES STUDIO, a Paris-based acoustic ecology, food research and bio-design studio. She is a peer-assessor for Creative Australia (2025-2027), and Deputy Chair and Editor for Runway Journal. Her work has been supported by Creative Australia, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and UNESCO, among others.
Aside from her installation practice, she continues to work as a sound practitioner, represented by the Australian Music Centre. She often collaborates fellow creatives as a music producer, sound engineer, radio host, performer, and sound designer.
Contact: victoriaavpham[at]gmail[dot]com
Studio by appointment only
EARTHLY FUTURES STUDIO, Usine Chapal, 2 Rue Marcellin Berthelot, 93100, Paris, France.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 — roots run wild on roots of memory, 15 BEAUTREILLIS, Paris
2023 — Frozen Fungi, CEMENT FONDU, Sydney
2022 — TERRA: Memory + Soil (w/Joel Sherwood Spring), West Space, Melbourne
2021 — IF YOU TURN YOU CAN SEE ME, Galerie V, Cambridge
2018 — SONANT BODIES, w/James Hazel, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals
2024 — Sonic Travellers, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Listening Gardens ii – soil fields, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023 — Uprising of Dreams, NOW OR NEVER Festival, Melbourne
beneath water’s skin, future drowns memory, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Listening Garden i: la grotte, Yellow Cube Gallery, Paris
HOMO NOVUS, Latvia
2022 — RE:TUNING (with Nguyen), ANTIDOTE Festival, Sydney Opera House
A Drumstick is a Hammer (with Nguyen), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2021 — RE:SOUNDING, Samstag Museum, ACCA, and Footscray Arts, Australia
CO GAI MAU DO, J/M Gallery, London
Impressions, IESA Galerie, Paris
2020 — RE:SOUNDING, BLEED Festival, Arts House Melbourne & Campbelltown
2019 — CON/TINUUM (with Hazel), Testing Grounds, Melbourne
Selected Curatorial Projects and Programming
2025 — Listening Fields, Fade Radio, Greece
2023 — Thresholds, Backstage Music Australia, Sydney
2022 — MONOPOLY, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne
2020 - 2023 — co-Artistic Director, FABLE ARTS, London
2020-2022 — Host and producer, DECLASSIFY PODCAST, Seasons 1 and 2, London
Awards and Prizes
2024 — Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize
2023 — Finalist, Footscray Art Prize
2022 — Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize
2019 — Finalist, NSW Young Achiever of the Year Award & Academia Award
2018 — Finalist, NSW Young Achiever of the Year & Arts Award
Henry Lawson Prize for Prose
Maureen Byrne Memorial Prize for Best Thesis
2017 — Frank Albert Prize for Archaeology
Graduate Prize in Prehistoric Archaeology
2016 — Kathleen Garnham Laurence Prize for Fine Arts
Artist Residencies
2024 — CULTURE LAB, Arts House, Melbourne
Mudhouse Residency, Crete, Greece
2022 — OpenBach/RARO Residency, Paris
2022 — Centre for Projection Art, Melbourne
2021 — Metal Culture, United Kingdom
Grants and Funding
2025 — Creative Australia Projects Funding for Individuals
Music Australia Export Industry Funding
2024 — Culture Moves Europe
APRA AMCOS 23% Mentors Program
2023 — Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Emerging Artists' Grant
APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund
2022 — Research Fund, Department of Archaeology (University of Cambridge)
SSHB Grant for Research, University of Loughborough
2021 — Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practice Grant
2020 — Create NSW Project Funding and Australian Council for the Arts: RE:SOUNDING
2020–23 — Cambridge International Scholarship, Cambridge Trust
2019 — Create NSW Young Leaders Fellowship
Carlyle Greenwell Research Scholarship
2018 — Create NSW Artist Grant for Baroque Opera Studies
John Schaeffer Fund for Nineteenth-Century Art
Olwen Tudor Jones Scholarship for Archaeological Fieldwork
