KERRY PHILLIPS
Born Denton, Texas, USA 1974
Resides in Miami, Florida USA

EDUCATION
B.F.A., Florida International University (Miami, FL), 2000
M.F.A., University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2003

 

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Girls’ Club, collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Mosquera Collection, Miami, FL
Stephen Lanster, Miami, FL
Dan & Kathryn Mikesell, Miami, FL

 

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2021

ProjectArt Residency, teaching artist for kids in local libraries, Model City Branch, Miami, FL
2020
No Vacancy Miami Beach, 10 artists create 10 site-specific public installations, Miami Beach, FL
2018
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Nominee, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2017
Alumni Award, Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
2015
Award, Seventh All-Media Juried Biennial 2015, Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Lost Spaces & Stories of Vizcaya Contemporary Arts Program Commission
2010
Best in Show, 59th Annual All Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art
2009
Leo R. Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Scholarship, Dade Community Foundation
Artist-in-Residence, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
Artist-in-Residence, A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France
Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2008 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami, FL
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2005-07 Artist-in-Residence, ArtCenter/South Florida, 800 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Between the miraculous & the mundane
The Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
July 2023

2022
A Kept Thing & Un(forgetting): selections from Kerry Phillips’ archive (Part 1 & 2)
Women Artists Archive Miami (WAAM) at Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL

Collected memories, rooted objects
Brick City Gallery, Missouri State College, Springfield, MO

Kerry Phillips’ Whatsits Emporium & Library of Things
for Susan Caraballo’s Prelude to 2100
Immersive theater, art exhibition & store, Deering Estate, Miami, FL

2020
Other People’s Things, site-specific installation with No Vacancy Miami Beach
Miami Beach, FL

An Accidental Collection (the junk drawer)
DACRA, Miami Design District, FL

A Place for Everything
Galleries at MIA, Miami, FL

2019
Uninhabited forests
under the bridge art space, North Miami, FL

2018
The world adjacent, Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2018
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2017
A reasonable plan for dying
ArtCenter/SF Satelight Space, Miami Beach, FL

2015
Inheriting Gravity
The Meetinghouse, Miami FL

2014
Following (hollowed out spaces)
Farside Gallery, Miami, FL

2013
Sometimes your things (the great exchange), Solo project with Girl’s Club
Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL

INKarnation, two-person installation
Bridge Red Studios Project Space, Miami, FL

2011
I’m the worst when it comes to making up stories
Bridge Red Studios Project Space, Miami, FL

2010
Congratulations, Happy Birthday and other mementos of another day
Art@Work, Miami, FL

2009
Sometimes your things are my things, installation/performance
Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

Crush Letters
Last Minute Performance Festival, Kawiarnia Naukowa, Kraków, Poland

2007
You can tell me . . . I’ll make believe I’m listening, two-person exhibition
Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL.

Vacuuming Gave Me Carpal Tunnel
Project Room, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

In the Company of Women: At Large. Miami: LnS Gallery, 2022. Exhibition Catalogue.

Hocus Focus Radio Show (Online), ep. 34, 9 Dec 2020: Mark Diamond. “Kerry Phillips on Hocus Focus Radio Show”
www.itsallahologram.blogspot.com/2020/12/kerry-phillips-on-hocus-focus-radio.html?fbclid=lwAR20ebG69pUeflGhsXToTcez2jCBGMuCdxkfyR7fR) Accessed 5 May 2021.

New York Times (New York, NY), 2 Dec 2020: Joseph B. Treaster
“In Miami Beach, the Art Scene Has Moved Outdoors”

New York Times (New York, NY), 30 Nov 2020: Brett Sokol
“It’s Still Art Week in Miami”

Miami New Times (Miami, FL) 12 Oct 2020: Isabella Marie Garcia
“Kerry Phillips Turns the Lowly Junk Drawer Into a Treasure Trove”

Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, 5 June – 19 August 2018, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
James, Chris. “Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2018 Short Film.” Orlando Museum of Art. 2018. <www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7FxXRePk0k>.

New Art South Florida: Cultural Consortium Visual & Media Artist Fellowship Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, 19
Sepember – 31 October 2015, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

The Miami Herald (Miami, FL), 26 May 2013: Anne Tschida
“Outside the Lines”

KnightArts Blog (Online), 13 Mar 2012: Anne Tschida
“A deep breath for art”

Artforum (Online), 10 Mar 2012: Hunter Braithwaite
“Practices Remain”

“Artist Kerry Phillips – See Share & Show.” Plum TV. May 5, 2011.

City Link Magazine (Hollywood, FL), 6 Oct 2009: Colleen Dougher
“A thing for things: The world’s trash is Kerry Phillips’ treasure”

The Miami Herald (Miami, FL), 29 Jun 2008: Fabiola Santiago
“The Shining: Light intensifies the shadows and illusions of MAM’s new exhibit”

New Times (Miami, FL), 26 Jun 2008: Carlos Suarez de Jesus
“Grand Illusion: MAM’s latest spectacle glimmers, glows, and goads”

New Times (Miami, FL), 1 Feb 2007: Carlos Suarez de Jesus
“Found in the Fun House: Locust Projects has some last-minute high jinks up its sleeve”

New Times (Miami, FL), 17 Aug 2006: Carlos Suarez de Jesus
“Home Groan: How Elsa Carolina Muñoz almost drove me to drive”

El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL), 6 Aug 2006: Jose Antonio Evora.
“ArtCenter/South Florida Cuatro artistas en casa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Hand over Hand: Textiles Today
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
April 2023

The BluPrnt, Miami Survey curated by Robert Chambers
Bridge Red Studios Project Space, Miami, FL

2022
In the Company of Women: at Large
LnS Gallery, Miami, FL
July 15 – September 3, 2022

Remember the Sky
ProjectArt Residency exhibition hosted by MoCA, North Miami, FL

2021
Materiality
Bridge Red Studios Project Space, Miami, FL

South Florida Women Artists at Large
Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, FL

2020
i am here / mwen la / estoy aquí, site-specific inervention
A.I.M. Biennial, Miami, FL

2019
Tension in 3 Dimensions, Deering Spring Contemporary
Deering Estate, Miami, FL

Inhabited
The Projects at FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2018
outlaw culture: or a higher ground
Bridge Red Studios Project Space, Miami, FL

2017
What’s Wonderful
The Frank, Pembroke Pines, FL

2016
Lost Spaces & Stories of Vizcaya
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Miami, FL

Invitational Exhibition
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

Intertextuality
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

2015
100+ Degrees in The Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art
Laundromat Gallery, Miami, FL

New Art: South Florida Cultural Consortium Media & Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition
Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Ne me quitte pas (Tonta), performance
Tigertail FLAFRA Festival, Black Box Theater, Miami, FL

Rememorate, performance ritual, part of Christina Pettersson’s The Mourning Tents
MoCA, Miami, FL

Building a boat is like building a barn…
Plus One/ArtSoBay, Deering Estate, Miami, FL

2014
30 Years on the Road
Richard Shack Gallery, ArtCenter/SF, Miami Beach, FL

Fibers in Flux
Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

The Farms Project Walking Tour, part of Christina Pettersson’s show at Primary Projects
Primary Projects, Miami, FL

The Triumph of Detritus
1310 Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL

One Out of one Thousand
ArtCenter/SF, Miami Beach, FL

2013
All-Media Juried Biennial 2013
Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

Multiplicity
Richard Shack Gallery, ArtCenter/SF, Miami Beach, FL

The Farm Tours, performance/installation
ArtSoBay Exhibit, Deering Estate, Miami, FL

2012
Practices Remain, a roving exhibition
Norwegian Wood Build., Miami, FL & Regina Rex, Queens, NY

Here and Then, installation
Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Common Ground
Buena Vista Building, Miami, FL

2011
G-Spot: Get the Green Light, a multi-venue exhibition, installation
Alfred I. DuPont Building, Miami, FL

All-Media Juried Biennial 2011
Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

2010
Good N’ Plenty / Art Basel 2010
Richard Shack Gallery, ArtCenter/SF, Miami Beach, FL

2010 Summer Fest
Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY

Other People’s Stuff
Fine Arts Gallery, Broward College, Davie, FL

2009
Collected while here, performance/installation
Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France

2008
Under the Influence
Girl’s Club, Ft Lauderdale, FL

Tattered Cultures; Mended Histories
Linekona Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Shadows, Disappearances and Illusions
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2007
Little Boxes
Spinello Gallery, Miami FL

No Need to Touch
Richard Shack Gallery, ArtCenter/SF, Miami Beach, FL