Photo courtesy Gasworks
Photo courtesy Kvet Nguyen
Photo courtesy Sung Tieu, taken in Bạch Mã, Vietnam
Will Pham is an interdisciplinary artist based in London.
Pham 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.
Solo exhibitions include Ngon Quá, Deptford X (2025), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and An Viet (Well Settled), Royal Academy Schools (2018).
Group exhibitions and events include New Contemporaries, The South London Gallery (2026) then touring to MIMA, Middlesbrough (2026), An Evening of Performances- Through A Mirror Darkly, Artangel (2025), 50: Vietnamese Boat Refugees Then & Now, Richmix (2025), Arts’ Ugly Right?, Danielle Arnaud Gallery (2025), 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 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 (studio practice) at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art in 2024 and Visiting Lecturer to lead 3rd year crits for BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2024 and 2025. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in summer 2024 to do an artist talk, and in autumn to lead a workshop titled ‘Islands of Safety’ as part of the annual Festus programme for MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer for tutorials at BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University in 2025-2026.
He was awarded residencies and grants from Arts Council England Project Grant (2025), 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).
He lives and works in London.
Will Pham, born 1990 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2015-2018 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
2010-2013 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2012 Exchange Programme, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
2009-2010 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2026
New Contemporaries, MIMA, Middlesbrough
New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (performance)
New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2025
Will Pham and the VLC Band, Artangel, London (performance)
Community Psychology Festival Festival of Stories: Untold Stories and Community, Norwich
Ngon Quá, Deptford X, London (solo)
50: Vietnamese Boat Refugees Then & Now, Richmix, London
Art’s Ugly Right?, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Recipes of Life, ESEA Community Centre, London
2024
Queer East: A Love Letter to Vietnam, East & Southeast Asian Community Centre, London
Islands of Safety, Royal College of Art, London
Newham Recipes for Life, Newham Council Festival of Stories, London
Community Open Day, Centre 151, London (performance)
You Belong Here, Southbank Centre, London (performance)
The Vietnamese Room, Museum of the Home, London
From (Counter-) Archives to Activation, esea contemporary, Manchester
Will Pham: New Work, LUX Moving Image, London (screening)
Late at Tate Britain- Lunar New Year, Tate Britain, London (screening)
How to Sleep Faster: Mental Health and Art in Crisis, Arcadia Missa Gallery (book launch)
A Night of Performances, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London (performance)
We Need to Talk: Intergenerational Cinema of Asian Diaspora in East Germany, ICA
2023
Reimagining VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services, London (screening)
Archives on the Move, Royal College of Art, London
Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2020-2021
Nàng Tu Do- The Archive of Art in the Camps (Garden Streams) and the Traces of Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong, CUHK, Hong Kong
2019
Reality Runs Away- The Limits of Documentary, Perch Arts, London (screening)
DAM PROJECTS: New Moving Image, Closeup Cinema (screening)
Little Vietnam, Turf Projects, London (solo)
Resettled Spaces: Examining the Home, Lien Viet Housing Association, London
The Lands Of, The Reef, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Diaspora Ma Homey, Space_31, Berlin, Germany
Residency Exhibition, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools, London (solo)
Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation, London
Songs from Southeast Asia, SOAS Radio, London
2017
Premiums- Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art, London
2016
Waves, Turf Projects, London
AWARDS
2025 Arts Council England Project Grant
2024 The Eaton Fund
2024 The Elephant Trust Award
2022 A-N Bursaries: Time Space Money
2020 The Gane Trust Grant
2018 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon Prize
2017 Celia Walker Art Foundation Prize
RESIDENCIES
2018 CFCCA ‘Breathe’ Award to Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2016 Tropical Lab Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2015 Gasworks International Fellowship Award to HANGAR, Lisbon, Portugal
TEACHING
2025-2026 Visiting Lecturer- Tutorials, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University
2025 Visiting Lecturer- Crit, BA Fine Art Year 3, Chelsea (UAL)
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Workshop Leader (Islands of Safety), MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk, MA Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Tutorials, BA Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths University
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Crits, BA Fine Art Year 2 and 3, Chelsea (UAL)
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Professional Practice Talk, BA Fine Art Year 2, Chelsea (UAL)
2023 Associate Lecturer- Cross Year Module Creation, Delivery, Assessment, Royal College of Art
2019 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, Croydon School of Art
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins (UAL)
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BA Fine Art Drawing, Camberwell (UAL)
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Group Crits & Tutorials, BA Fine Art Sculpture, Camberwell (UAL)
PUBLICATIONS
2026 New Contemporaries Publication
2025 Ngon Quá Calendar, Deptford X
2024 Festus Catalogue, Royal College of Art
2023 How to Sleep Faster Issue 14: Mental Health and Art in Crisis, Arcadia Missa Press
2023 Duc Van Minh (in collaboration with Beatrix Pang)
2022 The London Open Catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery
2019 Resettled Spaces: Examining the Home Exhibition Catalogue
2018 Royal Academy Schools Catalogue
2018 Indigo Magazine: New Voices from Southeast Asian Arts and Beyond
PRESS
2025 Deptford X name mention in News section in Art Monthly Issue No.488
2024 Asia Art Pacific- News Page Asymmetry Launches New Space with performance by Will Pham and Bones Tan Jones
2022 TimeOut Magazine: The London Open Review at Whitechapel Gallery
2021 Art Monthly, name mention by Morgan Quaintance
2021 Hackney Council: An Viet Foundation History Secured For The Future
2020 Wikipedia: Art in the Camps (Garden Streams), Nang Tu Do Exhibition
2019 DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network): Defining Ourselves
2019 Little Vietnam- Will Pham in conversation with Natalie Tan, Turf Projects
2018 Hackney Gazette: A love song to legacy of an ark for ‘boat people’ by Vincent Chow
Pham 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.
Solo exhibitions include Ngon Quá, Deptford X (2025), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and An Viet (Well Settled), Royal Academy Schools (2018).
Group exhibitions and events include New Contemporaries, The South London Gallery (2026) then touring to MIMA, Middlesbrough (2026), An Evening of Performances- Through A Mirror Darkly, Artangel (2025), 50: Vietnamese Boat Refugees Then & Now, Richmix (2025), Arts’ Ugly Right?, Danielle Arnaud Gallery (2025), 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 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 (studio practice) at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art in 2024 and Visiting Lecturer to lead 3rd year crits for BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2024 and 2025. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in summer 2024 to do an artist talk, and in autumn to lead a workshop titled ‘Islands of Safety’ as part of the annual Festus programme for MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer for tutorials at BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University in 2025-2026.
He was awarded residencies and grants from Arts Council England Project Grant (2025), 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).
He lives and works in London.
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Will Pham, born 1990 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2015-2018 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
2010-2013 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2012 Exchange Programme, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
2009-2010 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2026
New Contemporaries, MIMA, Middlesbrough
New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (performance)
New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2025
Will Pham and the VLC Band, Artangel, London (performance)
Community Psychology Festival Festival of Stories: Untold Stories and Community, Norwich
Ngon Quá, Deptford X, London (solo)
50: Vietnamese Boat Refugees Then & Now, Richmix, London
Art’s Ugly Right?, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Recipes of Life, ESEA Community Centre, London
2024
Queer East: A Love Letter to Vietnam, East & Southeast Asian Community Centre, London
Islands of Safety, Royal College of Art, London
Newham Recipes for Life, Newham Council Festival of Stories, London
Community Open Day, Centre 151, London (performance)
You Belong Here, Southbank Centre, London (performance)
The Vietnamese Room, Museum of the Home, London
From (Counter-) Archives to Activation, esea contemporary, Manchester
Will Pham: New Work, LUX Moving Image, London (screening)
Late at Tate Britain- Lunar New Year, Tate Britain, London (screening)
How to Sleep Faster: Mental Health and Art in Crisis, Arcadia Missa Gallery (book launch)
A Night of Performances, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London (performance)
We Need to Talk: Intergenerational Cinema of Asian Diaspora in East Germany, ICA
2023
Reimagining VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services, London (screening)
Archives on the Move, Royal College of Art, London
Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2020-2021
Nàng Tu Do- The Archive of Art in the Camps (Garden Streams) and the Traces of Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong, CUHK, Hong Kong
2019
Reality Runs Away- The Limits of Documentary, Perch Arts, London (screening)
DAM PROJECTS: New Moving Image, Closeup Cinema (screening)
Little Vietnam, Turf Projects, London (solo)
Resettled Spaces: Examining the Home, Lien Viet Housing Association, London
The Lands Of, The Reef, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Diaspora Ma Homey, Space_31, Berlin, Germany
Residency Exhibition, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools, London (solo)
Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation, London
Songs from Southeast Asia, SOAS Radio, London
2017
Premiums- Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art, London
2016
Waves, Turf Projects, London
AWARDS
2025 Arts Council England Project Grant
2024 The Eaton Fund
2024 The Elephant Trust Award
2022 A-N Bursaries: Time Space Money
2020 The Gane Trust Grant
2018 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon Prize
2017 Celia Walker Art Foundation Prize
RESIDENCIES
2018 CFCCA ‘Breathe’ Award to Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2016 Tropical Lab Residency, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2015 Gasworks International Fellowship Award to HANGAR, Lisbon, Portugal
TEACHING
2025-2026 Visiting Lecturer- Tutorials, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University
2025 Visiting Lecturer- Crit, BA Fine Art Year 3, Chelsea (UAL)
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Workshop Leader (Islands of Safety), MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk, MA Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Tutorials, BA Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths University
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Crits, BA Fine Art Year 2 and 3, Chelsea (UAL)
2024 Visiting Lecturer- Professional Practice Talk, BA Fine Art Year 2, Chelsea (UAL)
2023 Associate Lecturer- Cross Year Module Creation, Delivery, Assessment, Royal College of Art
2019 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, Croydon School of Art
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins (UAL)
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Artist Talk and Tutorials, BA Fine Art Drawing, Camberwell (UAL)
2018 Visiting Lecturer- Group Crits & Tutorials, BA Fine Art Sculpture, Camberwell (UAL)
PUBLICATIONS
2026 New Contemporaries Publication
2025 Ngon Quá Calendar, Deptford X
2024 Festus Catalogue, Royal College of Art
2023 How to Sleep Faster Issue 14: Mental Health and Art in Crisis, Arcadia Missa Press
2023 Duc Van Minh (in collaboration with Beatrix Pang)
2022 The London Open Catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery
2019 Resettled Spaces: Examining the Home Exhibition Catalogue
2018 Royal Academy Schools Catalogue
2018 Indigo Magazine: New Voices from Southeast Asian Arts and Beyond
PRESS
2025 Deptford X name mention in News section in Art Monthly Issue No.488
2024 Asia Art Pacific- News Page Asymmetry Launches New Space with performance by Will Pham and Bones Tan Jones
2022 TimeOut Magazine: The London Open Review at Whitechapel Gallery
2021 Art Monthly, name mention by Morgan Quaintance
2021 Hackney Council: An Viet Foundation History Secured For The Future
2020 Wikipedia: Art in the Camps (Garden Streams), Nang Tu Do Exhibition
2019 DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network): Defining Ourselves
2019 Little Vietnam- Will Pham in conversation with Natalie Tan, Turf Projects
2018 Hackney Gazette: A love song to legacy of an ark for ‘boat people’ by Vincent Chow