Phyllis Green | CV | Exhibitions
Born in Minneapolis, MN
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
1981 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
1977-78 Graduate Study, California State University, Fullerton
1972 Bachelor of Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Life After Life After Life, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Re-Walking: More Propositions, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Walking the Walk, LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Phyllis Green, Works Sited @ Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Splendid Entities: 25 Years of Objects byPhyllis Green, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2009
Out Of This World, Long Beach City College, California, CA
2003
Amelia and the Spinning Heads, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
1998
Ceci n’est pas sa maison, Lemon Sky: A Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Biota, LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Maria Theresa, Art Gallery, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1994
The Turkish Bath, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield
1993
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Art Gallery, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA
1990
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York
1988
Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
1986
Natalie Bush Gallery, San Diego, CA
1983
Turnbull, Lutjeans, Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
1982
Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Students Union Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2017
Conduction, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Material as Metaphor, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Side Gallery, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Little Messages for Modern Shut-ins, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ceramics: In and Out of Tradition, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA
Scripps 70th Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
2013
High and Low, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2012
Winter Kept Us Warm, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Phyllis Green and Bessie Kunath: Odd Ghosts and Unlikely Dancers, Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
WinniPig, Antebellum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
40/40: A Historic Perspective, USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2011
Uber Yummy, Robert F. Fullerton Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA (catalogue)
Chain Letter, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Flora, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA
2010
A Light in the Shadow-Decades of Art by Women, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Portraiture Beyond Likeness, Davenport Gallery, Wayne Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Nel Vostro Spazio: In your Space, Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy
Eros/Thanatos, Project Space Kreuzbeg, Berlin, Germany
Is This The Real Life: Los Angeles Artists in Bohemia, Gallery Califia, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Forth and Back: The Migration of Influence in the Work of Phyllis Green and Karen Koblitz, University Art Gallery, California State, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
2008
at the Brewery Project, 1993-2007; the Finale, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Emphasis: Santa Monica, Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
LAAGAFBLA2008, Phantom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Overflow: L.A. Art Girls Re-Invent Kaprow’s “Fluids”, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Piling On, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Icognito, Santa Monica Museum Of Art, CA
Pillow Talk: Small Comforts in Hard Times, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Multiple Vantage Points: California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Los Angeles Municipal, CA
Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
The First Element, Lindhurst Gallery, USC
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI ,UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Recent Acquisitions, Mulvane Museum of Art, Topeka, Kansas
Between Form and Function, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland
Ten Years of COLA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
The Original—Animamix, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Shanghai, China
Hangzou Animation Fair, Hangzou, China
Fiction@Love, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Shanghai, Shanghai, China (catalogue)
2005
ButtonsUp: LA, curated by Nadfly, Glascow, Scotland, http://www.nadfly.com/buttonsupla.php
Adjunct, Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern Caliornia, CA
Nouvelle Nuptials: New Visions in Wedding Traditions, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, CA
2004
Tinseltown Too, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Take This Bread, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
Crazy Thoughts Have Quick Wings: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, A Reimagining, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Tinseltown, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Sequel, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Blue, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego Mesa College, CA
Pillars, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Re-Inventing Pleasure: Ornamentation in Contemporary Ceramic Art, San Diego State University, CA (catalogue)
2001
I Love NY, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Between Representation: L.A.’s Greatest Unsigned Artists, INMO Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Cross Pollination, Holland Tunnel, New York, NY and Los Angeles Arboretum, Arcadia, CA
2000
Five Fresh Voices, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Fahrenheit 2000, Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, (catalogue)
Made In California: Art, Image and Identity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Elegant Whimsy: Low Tech/ High Art, Joslyn Fine Arts Gallery, Torrance, CA
12 Divas: Selected Southern California Artists as Mentors and Heroes, Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
CremolataFlottage (curated by Sue Spaid) Staten Island Ferry, New York, NY
1999
California Craft, (invitational), Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Studio Faculty, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Dalla Terra: From the Earth, Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy (catalogue)
Sig-Alert 2, Central Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton
Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual, Suggestive, Ferrin Gallery, Massachusetts
Sig-Alert, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe (catalogue)
1998
Dalla Terra: From The Earth, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Shoppost.com, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ways and Means, Miller Durazo, Los Angeles, CA
The Compestible Compost, Pavilions Market, West Hollywood, CA
From Head To Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
54th Annual Scripp’s Invitational, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1997
My Favorite Femmes, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 97, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California (catalogue)
On paper, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
COLA: 1996-97 Individual Artists Grants, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles (catalogue)
In Response, Marc Arranaga Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Material: Kim Cridler & Phyllis Green, The East Gallery, The Claremont Graduate School/Art, Claremont, CA
1996
Vessels, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
California Focus: Selections from the Collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
100 Dollar Show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles
The Puzzle, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
Thought Works @ L.A., Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, Michigan
Sexy : Sensual Abstraction in California 1950-1990, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in Painting, curated by Sue Spaid,
Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Lotus Motel Show, The Lotus Motel, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in Painting, Victoria Room and Push! Gallery, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Current, Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Del Guacal al Vaso, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
Defining a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Thought Works @ L.A., Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (catalogue)
New Visions: Los Angeles Art in the 90’s, Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Sexy, Contemporary Artists Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada
Felicity, curated by Phyllis Green, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artists and Dining, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Red and White, curated by Tressa Miller, Epicure, Santa Monica, CA
Language of Form, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1994
Doug Hammett’s 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Show, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Shoes, The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
Artists’ Cups, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Sacred and The Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Women Sculptors: Working Proposals, Todd Madigan Gallery, CSU, Bakersfield
1993
The Layered Look, organized by Sue Spaid, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sum: Art, The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA: Onramps, Offramps, Exchange, Diversity, San Diego State University, CA
1992
Obliquities; Los Angeles, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Summer 92, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
An Opening and A Closing, Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture Innuendos, Security Pacific Gallery,, Costa Mesa, CA
L.A. Artists #1, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
Marquettes by California Artists, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
Vessels, Art Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Light and Space: Phyllis Green and Beth Thielen, Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
1990
Natural Forces in Los Angeles Sculpture, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall
New Work: New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Southwest 90, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue)
Small Sculpture, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Barbara Benish, Suvan Geer, Phyllis Green, John Millei, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Heal the Bay Surfboard Art Invitational, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Framing the Magic Circle, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Disconnected Choices, Jose’ Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Small Sculpture, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Incest, American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Works-Plus, The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
Art and Soul, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California Surrealist Sculpture, Bronx River Gallery, The Bronx, New York
1988
East Side-West Side: Artists from Two Coasts, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Masks, Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
L’Art Compris/ Art in Jeopardy: An Exhibition of Previously Censored Works, Galerie Articule, Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
Summer 88, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
By Her Own Hand, Hillel Foundation, University of Southern Califonia, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Newcomers ‘87, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
Gallery Artists and Others, Natalie Bush Gallery, San Diego, CA
Group Show, Cantor Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Showcase ‘87, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
1986
Gallery Gala, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Three New Talents: Caper, DeBuck, Green, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wall Forms, Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape/Elements, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
All California On A Small Scale, Laguna Museum of Art, CA (Catalogue)
State of the Art, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Small Liberties: 25 Los Angeles Artists, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, New York
1985
The Missing Project: What’s Missing In The Eighties; Ten Artists Respond, SPARC Gallery, Venice, CA
First Show, Gallery at the Doolittle, James A. Doolittle Theatre, Hollywood, CA
Bridal Show, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Artists Call, Southern California Library for Social Research, Los Angeles, CA
Art In Clay; Thirty Years of Ceramic Art In Southern California, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, CA (Catalogue)
A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors ‘84, Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
California Clay, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, CA
1982
A Clay Preface: New Constructions and Architectural Works by Kris Cox, Phyllis Green, and Kazuko Matthews, University Art Gallery,
California State University, Dominguez Hills (Catalogue)
Extensions, Art Gallery, California State University, San Diego, CA
Westwood Clay National, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Grants
2014
Fellow (Fine Arts), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2010
Project Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation
2010
Artists Project Fellowship, City of Santa Monica
1996
Artist Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1996
Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles
1990
California Arts Council Artists Fellowship (Sculpture)
1986
Special Merit Award, “All California On A Small Scale,” Howard Fox, Juror
1984-85
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Sculpture)
1981
Canada Council Project Grant
1977-80
Senior Tuition Scholarship, British Columbia Cultural Fund
Selected Reviews
Ollman, Leah, ”Fake fur, rubber, afghans: Craft museum unfurls some playful surprises in ‘Material as Metaphor’”, LA Times, August, 2017.
O’Brien, John David, “Phyllis Green”, Artillery Magazine, June, 2015.
Malik, Courtney, “Little Messages for Modern Shut-ins”, at Aran Cravey, Los Angeles”, Flash Art, July, August, September 2014, p. 100
Whitney, Kathleen, “Phyllis Green: Feminine”, Ceramics Monthly, December 2013, pp. 44-47.
Zellen, Jodie, “Phyllis Green: Los Angeles”, Art Papers, May-June 2011, pp 47-48.
O’Brien, John David, “Phyllis Green: Ben Maltz Gallery”, Artillery: Killer Text on Art”, Vol 5, Issue 5, May/June 2011.
Green, Phyllis, “Guest Lecture: Boob Tree Raises Cult”, Artillery: Killer Text on Art”, Vol 5, Issue 4, March/ April 2011, pp. 40-41.
___________, “This Month’s Top Exhibitions In Western United States”, Huffpost Arts, Huffington Post, published January 28, 2011,
Brumer, Andie, “Preview: Phyllis Green”, Artscene, January 18, 2011
____________, “Splendid Entities: 25 Years of Objects by Phyllis Green at the Ben Maltz Gallery”, OMAG, Issue 10, Spring 2011.
William Bush, Huffpost Arts, Huntington Post, published March 16, 2011.
Pomonis, Mary Anna, “at The Brewery Project, 1993-2007”, The magazine, Feb/ March 2009, p. 38
Hebron, Micol, “Multiple Vantage Points”, Critic’s Picks, Artforum.com, March 2007.
Stevens, Dennis, “Nouvelle Nuptials”, Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 64 2006, pp 11-15.
Wood, Eve, “Phyllis Green Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Bridge Magazine
Newhouse, Kristina, “Sequel” at Domestic Setting, artnet.com,
Roth, Charlene, “Narrative, Humor, and Craft “, Sculpture Magazine, Vol 20, No. 9, November 2001, pp. 40-45.
Wood, Eve, “Between Representation: LA’s Greatest Unsigned Artists at INMO Gallery, Artweek, September 2001, pp. 23-24
Harvey, Doug, “Gender, Race”, LA Weekly, Auguest 4-10, 2000, p.47.
Ollman, Leah, “Art Reviews: Image Leaders”, Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2000, p. F21.
Peterson, Susan, Contemporary Ceramics, Watson-Guptill Publications: New York, 2000, p.19.
Selz, Peter, “The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics”, in Lauria, Jo, ed., Color and Fire:
Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000, Rizzoli: New York, 2000, pp.187-189.
Spaid, Sue, “L.A. Undercover: A Profile of the Alternative Projects”, Art Papers, March/ April 1998, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp.14-17.
Wilson, William, “’Head to Toe’ Mixes Education, Fun”, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1998, p. F12.
Knight, Christopher, “A COLA That Refreshes”, Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1997, p. F1.
“Vance Fever”, People Magazine, January 27, 1997, pp. 96-97. (reproduction)
Kapitanoff, Nancy, “Feminist Visions in Clay”, Ceramics: Art and Perception International, No. 25 1996, pp. 48-52.
Greenstein, M.A., “Lotus Motel”, World Art, #2, 1996, p.93.
Green, Roger, “L.A. artists’ work is inspirational”, Kalamazoo Gazette, February 18, 1996, p. E6
Pagel, David, “Hit-and-Miss Affair in ‘Sexy’ Show”, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1996, p. F24.
Reiter, Artemesia, “Hyper Femmes Fatales at Victoria Room and Push!”, San Francisco Bay Times, November 2, 1995.
Bonetti, David, “Gallery Watch”, San Francisco Examiner, October 27, 1995.
Goglio, Marcela, “Creative Cups: Designers make art out of daily essentials”, Costa Rica Today, July 27, 1995.Crowder, Joan, “A ‘Language’ in common”,
Santa Barbara News-Press, April 14, 1995.
Kandel, Susan, “It’s Hot and Steamy in Phyllis Green’s ‘Turkish Bath’”, Los Angeles Times, November 17, 1994, p. F13.
Brown, Betty Ann, “The Color Weal: A New American Art in Los Angeles,” Visions Art Quarterly, Fall 1993, pp. 21-23.
Kandel, Susan, “An Inspired Mess,” Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1993, F7.