VERONICA PHAM is an artist, educator, and designer. She received her MFA in Design Studies from UW-Madison and her BFA in Painting from UIUC. She has a published article titled Moments of Chây: Ecological Knowledge of Traditional Papermaking in Việt Nam, in the Winter 2023 issue of Ecology and Paper in the Hand Papermaking magazine. She is also co-writer in an upcoming publication, Contributions of Ethnobiology a collaborative interdisciplinary manuscript, Hand Papermaking Traditions in Việt Nam. Other recent exhibitions include Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures group exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book which looks at paper within a global and decolonial framework, Trúc Chỉ Gallery in Huế, Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Center for Research, Lydon House Art Center, Center for Visual Research Gallery at Cedar Crest College, and The Morgan Conservatory. Pham has also taught papermaking and fiber arts workshops at the Minnesota Center for the Book, Chazen Arts Museum, Fresh Press Paper, and SEASSI, and will teach at Penland School of Craft and Ox-Bow Paper Book Intensive in 2025.

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VERONICA Y PHAM works primarily in papermaking and fiber arts in her studio practice. Her work focuses on traditional craft specific to Vietnamese and Chinese histories to connect ideas of process, knowledge through generational labor, and questions of identity. The materials in her work often become environmental investigations about local ecology and place. Pham continues to work with traditional and contemporary papermakers in Vietnam with a focus on collaborative projects and research. Pham received her MFA in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently teaches art and design at the University of Vermont.