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Kerry Phillips Collection
Phillips, Kerry
Kerry Phillips 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 an MFA from University of Arizona and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Orlando Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Boca Raton Museum of Art, and Bridge Red Projects. Her most recent solo exhibition, Between the mundane and the miraculous was held at the Bass Museum August - October 2023.
She has exhibited and completed residencies in Ohio, Vermont, New York, North Carolina, and internationally in Berlin, Krakow, Mexico, and France. Her work is held in the collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, The Girls’ Club, and Mosquera Collections. Originally from Texas, Phillips works in Miami and, contrary to her family’s wishes, doesn’t paint pretty pictures. She is represented by LnS Gallery in Miami.
Kerry Phillips' collection includes documentation from her two-part exhibition at WAAM, (Un)forgetting and A Kept Thing. Items in the collection include documentation of site-specific installations, participatory projects, printed materials, press clippings, and photographs.
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