Photo courtesy of Kvet Nguyen, taken at Gasworks Studio, London
Photo courtesy of Sung Tieu, taken in Bạch Mã, Vietnam
Will Pham (born London, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist working in social practice, painting and moving image. He graduated from the Postgraduate Fine Art programme at the Royal Academy Schools from 2015-2018 and BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design from 2010-2013 with a international exchange program at Emily Carr University of Art, Vancouver, Canada in Spring 2012. He completed a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Chelsea College of Art & Design from 2009-2010.
He was an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2023, teaching his own unit ‘Archives On the Move’ as part of Urgency of the Arts. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art in 2024 and Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2024. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2024.
Solo exhibitions and commissions include Ngon Quá: Vietnamese Cooking Project, Deptford X (2025), VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and An Việt (Well Settled), Royal Academy Schools Show (2018).
Group exhibitions and screenings include Recipes of Life, ESEACC (2025), Open Day, Centre 151 (2024), You Belong Here, Southbank Centre (2024), From (Counter-)Archives to Activation, esea contemporary, Manchester (2024), A Night of Performances with VLC Band & Will Pham and bones tan jones, Asymmetry Art Foundation (2024), Late at Tate- Lunar New Year curated by Trâm Nguyen and June Lam, Tate Britain (2024), New Work Series, LUX Moving Image (2024), Reimagining VMHS, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2022), Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery (2022), Nang Tu Do- Archives in the Camps, CUHK, Hong Kong (2020-21), Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation (2018), and Premiums: Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art (2017).
He was awarded residencies and grants from The Elephant Trust Award (2024), Eaton Fund (2024), CFCCA Breathe Award to Taipei Artist Village (2018) and the Gasworks Triangle Fellowship to HANGAR, Lisbon (2015).
His work was included in Arcadia Missa Gallery’s Annual Journal How to Sleep Faster Issue 14 edited by Maggie Matić (2024). He has collaborated with Beatrix Pang on an artist book, Duc Văn Minh (2023). He was invited to moderate a post screening talk at the ICA, London, ‘We Need to Talk: Intergenerational Cinema of Asian Diaspora in Germany’ curated by Sarnt Utamachote (2024).
He lives and works in London and is based at Gasworks.
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He was an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2023, teaching his own unit ‘Archives On the Move’ as part of Urgency of the Arts. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art in 2024 and Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2024. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2024.
Solo exhibitions and commissions include Ngon Quá: Vietnamese Cooking Project, Deptford X (2025), VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and An Việt (Well Settled), Royal Academy Schools Show (2018).
Group exhibitions and screenings include Recipes of Life, ESEACC (2025), Open Day, Centre 151 (2024), You Belong Here, Southbank Centre (2024), From (Counter-)Archives to Activation, esea contemporary, Manchester (2024), A Night of Performances with VLC Band & Will Pham and bones tan jones, Asymmetry Art Foundation (2024), Late at Tate- Lunar New Year curated by Trâm Nguyen and June Lam, Tate Britain (2024), New Work Series, LUX Moving Image (2024), Reimagining VMHS, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2022), Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery (2022), Nang Tu Do- Archives in the Camps, CUHK, Hong Kong (2020-21), Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation (2018), and Premiums: Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art (2017).
He was awarded residencies and grants from The Elephant Trust Award (2024), Eaton Fund (2024), CFCCA Breathe Award to Taipei Artist Village (2018) and the Gasworks Triangle Fellowship to HANGAR, Lisbon (2015).
His work was included in Arcadia Missa Gallery’s Annual Journal How to Sleep Faster Issue 14 edited by Maggie Matić (2024). He has collaborated with Beatrix Pang on an artist book, Duc Văn Minh (2023). He was invited to moderate a post screening talk at the ICA, London, ‘We Need to Talk: Intergenerational Cinema of Asian Diaspora in Germany’ curated by Sarnt Utamachote (2024).
He lives and works in London and is based at Gasworks.
Click here to view CV