Kerry Phillips

Kerry Phillips (b. 1974 Denton, TX) is an installation artist whose artwork borders on performance and social practice. Phillips’ work with found objects is intuitive, often site-specific, and steeped in remembrance and storytelling. She uses common objects in unexpected ways, working collaboratively with viewer-participants to reveal an exchange of value, the importance and limitations of memory, and the vitality of play.

Phillips earned a BFA from Florida International University (2000), an MFA from University of Arizona (2003), and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Orlando Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Deering Estate’s Spring Contemporary, and Bridge Red Projects. In August 2023, Phillip’s inaugurated her first solo exhibition with The Bass Museum in Miami Beach titled Between the Miraculous & the Mundane. She forms part of the permanent collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, and The Girls’ Club.

ARTWORKS

Under the Rocks and Stones

2025
carpet, found wood on wood panel
63 x 412 inches | 160.02 x 105.41 cm

There is water at the bottom of the ocean

2025
carpet, fabric, wooden dowels on stretched canvas
59 x 64 inches | 151.77 x 162.56 cm

Woven Woods (Stratford Yellow, Avocado Pink)

2025
found & kept wood, yarn
294x 13½ inches | 74.30 x 34.29 cm

Woven Woods (Peachblow, Coppertone, Poppу)

2025
found & kept wood, yarn
34 x 234 inches | 86.36 x 60.33 cm

Woven Woods (Lagoon-foam blue)

2025
found & kept wood, yarn
48 x 202 inches | 121.92 x 52.1 cm

Kendall, Lanai, Sharan (Iredell, TX)

2025
carpet on felt
31 ½ x 31 ½ inches | 79.38 x 79.38 cm.

Tonta (Shadow of my Shadow)

2025
carpet on felt
22 ¼ x 31 ½ inches | 56.52 x 79.38 cm.