willphamstudio[at]gmail.com

Born 1990, London, UK

Lives and works in London

Education

2015-18 Postgraduate Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
2010-13 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2012 Exchange Programme, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
2009-10 Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

Selected Exhibitions

2022

The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2021

Movement, Skelf, Online

2020

Nàng Tự Do- The Archive of Art in the Camps (Garden Streams) and the Traces of Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong, CUHK, Hong Kong
Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, CFCCA, Manchester (solo)
Nation, Identity and Diaspora, CFCCA, Manchester

2019

Little Vietnam, Turf Projects, London (solo)
Resettled Spaces, An Viet Housing Association, London
The Lands Of, The Reef, Los Angeles, USA
DAM PROJECTS: New Moving Image selected by Morgan Quaintance, Closeup Cinema, London
Reality Runs Away- The Limits of Documentary, Perch Arts, London

2018

RA Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools, London
Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation, London
Diaspora, Ma Homey, Space_31, Berlin, Germany
An Viet (Well Settled), Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Asia Art Activism, Raven Row, London
Recreative, South London Gallery, London
Growing Home, NQAPIA, San Francisco, USA
Summer Showcase, British Academy, London
Songs from Southeast Asia, SOAS Radio, London

2017

Gender, Identity & Material, Royal Academy of Art, London
Premiums- Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art, London

2016

Waves, Turf Projects, London
Fictive Dreams, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2015

Unusual Weight, HANGAR, Lisbon, Portugal
From, Hotel Elephant Space, London
A place called home, Goldsmiths, London

Selected Awards and Residencies

2022

a-n Bursaries: Time Space Money

2020

The Gane Trust Grant, Bristol
Arts Council England Emergency Grant

2019

Lien Viet Housing Association Commission, London

2018

CFCCA ‘Breathe’ Award to Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Researcher in Residence, Asia Art Activism, Raven Row, London
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon Prize, London

2017

Celia Walker Art Foundation Prize, London

2016

Tropical Lab Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore

2015

3 Year Patrons Bursary, Royal Academy Schools, London
Gasworks International Fellowship Award to HANGAR, Lisbon, Portugal