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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Contact: victoriaavpham[at]gmail[dot]com


Studio by appointment only

EARTHLY FUTURES STUDIO, Usine Chapal, 2 Rue Marcellin Berthelot, 93100, Paris, France.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded stolen land on which I practice and exist, and I extend my respect towards elders past, present and emerging.

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Victoria Pham © 2025

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