Will Pham

Thank you everyone for coming! New Contemporaries at South London Gallery, 2026 Installation views Photo: Oli Cowling January to April 2026 You belong here (with the VLC Band), 2024 Extract, 6 mins loop. Vinyl wall text with audio with headphones Vietnamese translation by @koapham Live performance documentation at Southbank Centre. QR code to full sound recording. Live performance at The South London Gallery Saturday 11th April 2026. Thank you @new_contemporaries @southlondongallery @centre151 VLC Band

VLC Band at @southlondongallery for @new_contemporaries 2026 🥳🎉❤️🌸 @centre151 Photo by @waynela_

Im wearing my dads jacket with shoulder pads!

VLC Band @centre151 at @southlondongallery as part of @new_contemporaries 2026 ❤️❤️❤️ Photo by @waynela_

You Belong Here, as part of @new_contemporaries Live & final weekend of the show at @southlondongallery 11th April 2026. Thank you @waynela_ for your amazing photography Thank you @koapham for helping with translation Thank you @qynari.uk for video recording 🙏 Thank you OG Recipes of Life crew and Deptford X team for coming :) and friends and family for coming. Its been wonderful ❤️ New Contemporaries Live- a dynamic programme of live works by artists Alia Gargum, Makiko Harris, Will Pham and The VLC Band, and Christopher Steenson. This event includes spoken word, performance, live music and choreographed works by New Contemporaries exhibiting artists.  ARTISTS Alia Gargum @alia_studio_  is a sculpture and installation artist. She composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means.  Makiko Harris @makikoharris is an interdisciplinary artist exploring feminism, identity, and desire through painting, sculpture, moving image, and sound. Merging symbolic forms and digital processes, her work questions intimacy, spectatorship, and corporeal knowledge. Will Pham with The VLC Band. Pham is a British-Vietnamese artist exploring themes of intergenerational care, displacement and the Vietnamese resettlement experience to the UK. His approach often begins with archival research blending with his own personal memory, to reactivate a sensorial and bodily relation to memory, history and place-making. The VLC Band @centre151  are a troupe of musicians primarily from Vietnam, led by Mr Lai. They are based at Centre 151, a Hackney-based community centre set up in 1985, formerly known as the Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (VLC). The band members include Dan Tran, Doc Ngo, Thanh Long, Frankie, Hung, Hùng, Quang, Ngọc Nga, Quyen and with special guests including Duy Khiem. Christopher Steenson @christopher_steenson  works across sound, text, lens-based media and digital systems to interrogate the politics of time, environment and more-than-human relations. Through these concerns, he seeks to make work in which we can listen to the future.

Meet artist Will Pham @willpham_ in his south London studio at @studiovoltairelondon Pham is an artist exploring the Vietnamese refugee resettlement experience and intergenerational memory within diaspora communities. Working in painting, moving image, text, and socially engaged art, he reuses and transforms family and community archives to reveal alternative narratives of survival and resilience. Find out more about his work with the VLC band at @centre151 and hear them live at the SLG as part of @new_contemporaries Live on Sat 11 Apr. Book now through the link in our bio. ❤️ 'You Belong Here' installation vinyl translated by @koapham .

新年快樂, Chúc mừng năm mới, 새해 복 많이 받으세요, Сар шинэдээ сайхан шинэлээрэй, Happy New Year! 🧧🎊 Today is #LunarNewYear Eve, traditionally we celebrate for the next 15 days (16 including today). A time of community, family, restoring energy and solidarity. Thank you @quynh.giao.3304 and your team at @vietfp for again taking over @deptfordlounge with such vibrancy! 💚 Deptford has been for decades a key hub for Vietnamese and Chinese communities in the UK. I am grateful to cooperate with workers & artists such as my friends @willpham_ & @nancynhatvu and our community, incl Co Quynh and many more. In 2026 we will deepen our organising together to build tangible and intangible cultural heritage, to protect marginalised and expropriated residents & stories. I wish everyone Happy transition from Wood Snake to Fire Horse! After shedding old skins and laying the groundwork in 2025, it is all the more urgent to unite with our fellow oppressed to outrun our oppressors with the stampede of our hooves.

What a night! A huge thanks to everyone who showed up to our film club’s launch event. A special shoutout to @everymancinema & @queereast for making this happen, it didn’t just played, it slayed!♥️♥️ 📆We will be back again in March, stay tuned! 🎥Video by @mr.matt.tam 🍹Cocktails by @tico.tequila

🇻🇳Let’s talk about Viet & Nam🇻🇳 - directed by @truongminh_quy After the film, an in-person conversation with: 🚩@2ahuynhproduces - A British Vietnamese-Chinese creative, amplifies underrepresented voices through film and multidisciplinary art. 🚩@willpham_ - A London-based Vietnamese artist focusing on socially engaged art, moving image, and drawing/painting. 🚩Moderated by @____elainechong , broadcast journalist at the BBC World Service, writing and making films about the Chinese diaspora. 📍Everyman at The Whiteley 📆Tuesday, 27 January 7PM 🍹drinks & canapés reception🍣 7:45PM screening 🍿popcorn, already taken care of ✨ Follow us for future Film Club evenings

Available on researchgate or physical copy. Journal of Vietnamese Studies promotes and publishes original social science and humanities research about Vietnamese history, politics, culture, and society, as well as Vietnam-related topics that have traditionally been set apart from mainstream area studies scholarship such as the Vietnamese diaspora and the Vietnam War. Special Issue: Heritagization (Edited by Peter Bille Larsen and Hoàng Cầm) published Summer/Fall 2025, Issue 20, 3-4 Thank you Dr Tamsin Barber for writing a review on my painting series. Thank you editor Alex-Thái Đình Võ for selecting my painting for the cover and for including Tamsins research. Thank you University California Press.

Thank you everyone for sending kind messages, just sharing a repost. Im very happy to be included in @new_contemporaries sharing a live work with the VLC Band @centre151 . More info coming soon! 2026 New Contemporaries artists announced! We’re thrilled to introduce the artists selected for the New Contemporaries Programme whose work will be exhibited at the South London Gallery and MIMA, Middlesbrough in 2026. Viviana Almas @viv.almas , Kat Anderson @katanderson26 , Hadas Auerbach @H_A_8_8 , Timon Benson @timonbenson , Lakshya Bhargava @rookie_artist_17 , William Braithwaite @william_braithwaite_ , River Yuhao Cao @riverrcao , Ali Cook @ali.c.from.the.ne3 , Shaun Doyle @copsocker , Ally Fallon @ally_fallon , Samantha Fellows @samanthafellowsart , Alia Gargum @alia_studio_ , Oliver Getley @o_getley , Makiko Harris @makikoharris , Manuel Alejandro Hernandez Rivera @el_otro_manuel_hernandez , Deborah Lerner @deborahkatelerner , Gregor Petrikovič @gregor_petrikovic , Will Pham @willpham_ , Isobel Shore @isobelshore , Maya Silverberg @maya.silverberg , Aaron Alexander Smyth @plasticyouth , Christopher Steenson @christopher_steenson , Varvara Uhlik @varavarka , Eliza Wagener @elizawagener , Benjamin Waters @benplwaters , and Yimin Xiang @xiangyimin_ . Their practices speak to the urgency and complexity of the moment. This cohort has been thoughtfully selected by artists Pio Abad @pioabad Louise Giovanelli @louise___giovanelli and Grace Ndiritu @theofficialgracendiritu Thank you @kiera_blakey @seamusmccormack Sophie and Rosie NC SLG MIMA team! ⚫ South London Gallery: 30 January – 12 April ⚫ MIMA, Middlesbrough: 8 May – 16 August Head to the NC website to find out more about the artists and exhibition. #NewContemporaries The New Contemporaries Programme is generously supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund, the New Contemporaries’ Emerging Artist Circle, The Fenton Arts Trust, Henry Moore Foundation, TFA London, OMNI and the 75th Anniversary Fundraiser in partnership with Christie’s. Images: Artwork (cropped), Timon Benson, Compression, 2024, graphic design by HATO. Group photo of the artists at SLG, 2025, by Hydar Dewachi, Will Pham and the VLC Band.

📣 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📣⁠ ⁠ As we enter the final month of THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY at Albany House, join us for an evening of performance, poetry and music in response to Naeem Mohaiemen's film. With a focus on themes of memorialisation and social justice that are present in Mohaiemen's work, the performances offer additional perspectives furthering the conversation started by the film. ⁠ ⁠ Joining us on the evening are the following artists, writers and musicians: @anthony_anaxagorou , @willpham_ and the VLC Band, @theresa_lola , @Nathaniel__mann and @tlkvox . ⁠ ⁠ Tickets are priced at £5 (£3 concs) and guests are welcome to stay for a late screening of THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, commencing at 20.30. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Book your ticket at the link in bio ⁠ ⁠ Date: Friday 24 October 2025⁠ Time: 19.00 - 20.30 (doors 18.30) ⁠ Location: Albany House, 94-98 Petty France, London SW1H 9EA⁠ ⁠ 📸 Credits: ⁠ 2) Anthony Anazagorou by Alessandro Furchino Capria⁠ 3) Theresa Lola by Jolade Olusanya ⁠ 4) Nathaniel Mann by Julian Hughes⁠ 5) Will Pham and the VLC Band by Pete Woodhead⁠ 6) t l k by Giulia Spadafora⁠ ⁠ #Artangel #THROUGHAMIRRORDARKLY #NaeemMohaiemen