BIO
Xuân Pham is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of hybridity, vulnerability, and empathy through object making and storytelling. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska as a child. Her background greatly influences her multi-disciplinary practice and ongoing research around racialized melancholia. Her work centers the relationship between trauma, migration, and race, investigating how the political and psychological impact of trauma and grief transpires within the Asian American communities and how it informs the formation of subjectivity and of racial identity, especially in representations of race in the United States. Her work pursues these questions through selected materials that bear on the cultural and political histories of European imperialism and colonialism throughout Vietnam, especially motifs that reflect the colonial experience. She is also motivated by the question of how storytelling in conjunction with object making might become a medium to express physical and emotional empathy.
EDUCATION
2020, Masters of Fine Arts (Studio Arts), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2013, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing), cum laude, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
2013, Bachelor of Art (Art History), cum laude, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025, Title: To Be Determined, (solo), Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
2025, Title: To Be Determined, (solo), Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2024, Annual Member Group Show Group Show, (group), Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2024, Soft Tradition to Rebellion in Fiber Arts, (group), The Historic Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL
2023,Unearth, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA, 3 person exhibition: Xuân Pham, Vick Quezada, Kathryn Fanelli, Boston, MA
2022, New Nothing New, Faculty Artworks in Blanchard, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2020, Cumulative Grief, LEG Gallery, Amherst, MA
2019, On the Edge (group), NYPOP Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, curated by Alexandra Foradas
2018, A Semblance of Place, (two person solo), NYPOP Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Pockets of Light (group), Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
We Grow Accustomed To The Dark (group), Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA, curated by Omid Shekari
2017, To...From..., NYPOP Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, curated by Maxime Van Melkebeke
Reconnect: A Juried Alumni Exhibition, University of Nebraska Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, NE
2016, Blood Gets Trapped Below the Skin’s Surface (solo), RNG Gallery, Council Bluffs, IA
Bemis Art Auction 2016 (group), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Paper, Cali Common (group), Omaha, NE
2014, Process (group), The Yellow Porch Gallery, Omaha, NE
2013, Pure Anxiety, BFA Thesis Exhibition (thesis), University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
Juried Student Exhibition (group), Juror Mike Giron, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
2012, ARTsarben, University of Nebraska Booth, Omaha, NE
Juried Student Exhibition (group), Juror Tim Guthrie, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
UNO Friends of Art Audition (group), Gallery 72, Omaha, NE
2011, Juried Student Exhibition (group), Juror Brigitte McQueen, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
2010, The Blank Show (group), Osborne Family Gallery, Criss Library, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
Inside the Ceramics Studio (group), Osborne Family Gallery, Criss Library, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
AWARDS, RESIDENCY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, 2024
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship, 2024
Student Assistant Grant, Mount Holyoke College, Provost and Dean of Faculty Office, 2024
Faculty Research Grant, Mount Holyoke College, Provost and Dean of Faculty Office, 2024
Easthampton City Arts, Art Workspace Easthampton (AWE) Studio Residency , 2023
Faculty Research Grant, Mount Holyoke College, Provost and Dean of Faculty Office, 2023