Mike Pham

Mike Pham is a performance artist, director and designer based in Seattle. He attended New York University and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and is a graduate of Seattle Central Creative Academy with a degree in graphic design. He is co-creative principal of Helsinki Syndrome, an experimental performance group presenting new, generative ensemble and solo performance work that incorporates elements of theater, movement and video. Once called "Seattle’s foremost practitioner of the classic avant-garde, a medium he both subverts and invigorates" (Jim Demetre, Artdish), Pham has participated in two consecutive artist residencies at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Incubator in 2008–09 and was nominated for the 2011 Henry Art Gallery Brink Award for emerging Pacific Northwest artists. He has performed in Seattle: (On the Boards' NW New Works Festival and 12 Minutes Max, Seattle Art Museum REMIX, Henry Art Gallery at Bumbershoot, Annex Theatre, Seattle School, Strange Coupling, Open Circle Theater), Portland, OR: (Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance), New York: (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator), Vancouver BC: (Or Gallery) and London, UK: (Camden People's Theatre SPRINT Festival).