Lives and works in Queens, New York.
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Interdisciplinary Major/ Music and Art
2008 "Installations by Liz Phillips," The Richard L. Nelson Gallery,UC Davis Link
2007 "Ginko Afterglow," Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Link
2004 "Liz Phillips: New Sound Works in the Project Room," Frederieke Taylor gallery, New York Link
1999 "Echo Evolution," The Kitchen, New York Link
1993 "Graphite Ground," Contemporary Art Center, Houston; Texas
1992 "Mersonic Illuminations," The World Financial Center, New York
1988 "Graphite Ground," The Whitney Museum, New York Link
1987 "Graphite Ground,"Capp Street Project, San Francisco Link
1985 "Sonar Eclipse," Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Massachusetts
1983 "Sunspots," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
1982 "Sound Syzygy," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Link Link
1981 "Windspun," Creative Time, New York Link Link
1978 "Mersonic Province I," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1978 "Mersonic Province II," Rene Block Gallery, Berlin
1978 "Mersonic Province III," Hagues Gemeentemuseum,The Netherlands
1977 "City Flow" The City University Graduate Center Mall, New Link
1975 "Broken/Unbroken Terracotta," The Kitchen, New York
1974 "Sound Structures," Artist's Space, New York
1971 "Sound Spaces," Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 "Wavetable ";" Sensory Overload", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI.
2004 "Echo-Location:Queens","Queens International", Queens Museum of Art, NY.
2003 "Wavetable", Tenth Anniversary, Frederieke Taylor gallery, NYC. Link
2002 "Re-Sound /Sound Screen", Lincoln Center Festival 2002 and The New York Video Festival, NYC. Link
2002 "Echo Evolution","Magic of Light"; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Link
2002 "Intermingling", "Light x 8", Jewish Museum, NY. Link
2001 "Shaded Bandwidths", Creative Time's Anchorage Show, NY. co / Anney Bonney; "Massless Medium", Brooklyn, NY. Link
2001 "Shaded Bandwidths" DVD installation. co/ Anney Bonney, Lincoln Center Video Festival, NY. Link
2001, "Suspended Frequencies" Boston Museum School, MA. co/Anney Bonney; "Dangerous Waves"Anderson Gallery.
1998 "Koi", "Luistervissen", Ijsbreker, Amsterdam.
1996 "Natural Spectacles," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. Link Link Link
1992 "Sound Tables II and III," The Interactive Show Threadwaxing Space, NYC.
1992 "Sound Tables I, II, III," Ten from Queens", PaineWebber Gallery, New York, Curated by Queens Museum.
1991 "Ars Electronica "88 and 91," Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria. Link
1990 "Pulse 2"; University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
1988 "Cymbol" New Urban Landscape; The World Financial Center, New York.
1987 "Cymbol" The Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, North Carolina.
1986 , "Engaging Objects: The Participatory Art of Mirrors, Mechanisms, and Shelters"The Clocktower, New York.
1985 "Whitney Windspun," 1985 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1984 IBM "Sunspots," Think Pocket, Japan, Tokyo.
1983 "Sonar Eclipse," in collaboration with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Park Avenue Armory, New York.
1982 "Sunspots," Soundings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, NY. Link Link
1981 "Sunspots," New Music America '81" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Link Link
1980 "Windspun for Minneapolis", "NewMusic America '80," Peav y Plaza, Minneapolis
1973 "Sumtime" Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Link
1971 "Electronic Banquet," Eighth Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival" 69th Infantry Regiment Armory, New York.
Ars Electronica
ArtPark
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Broward Community College
California Institute of the Arts
Capp Street Project
Cleveland Orchestra
Cooper Union
Harvard University
Jacobs Pillow
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
MIT
Pratt Institute
PS1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources
Riverside Research Institute
San Diego State University
State University of New York at Albany
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
State University of New York at Purchase
Mills College, New York University
University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
University of California at Santa Barbara
Stedelijk Museum
Tyler School of Art, University of Cincinnati
Whitney Museum of American Art
Woodstock Community Video
2004 Phaedrus Foundation
2003 Jewish Museum
2000 Franklin Furnace
1987 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1987,1984 National Endowment for the Arts/ Interarts
1985,1983 National Endowment for the Arts/ New Genres
1981,1976 National Endowment for the Arts/ Composer's Fellowship
1982,1977 Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship/ Mixed Media
1981 Beard Fund
2003 "The Quiet Sound Show", Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY Link
2003 "Resound", Boston Museum of Fine Arts (received Purchase Affiliates Grant) Link
2002 "Resound for Dedicated Loudspeakers" Boston Museum of Fine Arts Link
Baker, Kenneth. "Art for the Ears at Capp Street Project". San Francisco Chronicle, January 1,1988 E2.
Cohen, Randy. "Synapse".
Close, Roy M. "Zephyr" Liz Phillips". St Paul Pioneer Press, May 28, 1984.
Concannon, Kevin." Sound Sculptures ? A Survey of American Work". Ars Electronica. Link
Howard, Christopher. "Queens International 2004Queens Museum of Art". The Brooklyn Rail, February 2005. Link
Hughes, Jeffrey. "Liz Phillips". Contemporary Arts Magazine, Review 19, Volume #63 2004, p.35-43.
Karson, Robin. "Art". Springfield News, March 10, 1983.
Krewani, Angela. "Immaterialising Sculpture-Transforming Spaces: Liz Phillips sound sculpture". Artefakte Artefiktionen, 2000, p. 301-311.
La Barbara, Joan. "Hi Fidelity Magazine".
Lovejoy, Margot. Digital Currents, 3rd Edition 2004.
Mirapaul, Matthew. "Art Festivals Buzz With Digital Deviltry". NY Times, June 13,2002.
Morrow, Charlie. "Sumtime". The Soho Weekly News, March 7, 1974 r-11.
Phillips, Patricia. "Liz Phillips Whiney Museum of Art". Artforum, October 1988 p.147.
Rabinowitz, Paula. "The Sounds of Sculpture / Liz Phillips: new sound works". NY Arts Magazine.#82, 2004. Link
Rabinowitz, Paula. "The Sound of Reformed Space, Liz Phillips's Responsive Installations". Performance Art Journal ", MIT Press, PAJ #72.
Reveaux, Tony. "The Responsive Rocks". Art Week, December 26, 1987 Volume 18 Page 5.
Roads, Curtis. "Liz Phillips: Windspun". Computer Music Journal Fall, 1981 Volume 5 Number 3.
Rockwell, John. "Avant-Garde: Liz Phillips Sound". The New York Times, Thursday May 14, 1981.
Sakane, Itsuo. "Asahi Shimbun" March 28, 1980.
Sanders, Linda. " Catching the Night Plain Sonic Syzygy ". The Village Voice, Vol XXX No.35 August 27, 1985.
Singer, . "Talk of the Town" Output. The New Yorker , April 18, 1977.
Zimmer, William. "Liz Phillips Frontier Composting Site, Hunts Point, Bronx; permanent installation". The Soho News, May 20, 1981.
Zummo, Peter. "Soho Weekly News"
Fuji Television Series " Art & Technology" , curated by Itsuo Sakane. 1981.
"Soundings" by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn 1983.
"New Music America - Minneapolis", Skip Blumberg.
"Sound Syzygy". Walker Art Center, James Byrne 1983.
"Interview with Sound Artist Liz Phillips", Terry Gross 1974. WBFO Radio 1974 Radio Interview with Terry Gross Link
Ars Electronica Link
Education
1969-73 Bennington College, Bennington, VermontBachelor of Arts Degree
Interdisciplinary Major/ Music and Art
Selected One-Artist Exhibitions (all responsive installations)
2008 Liz Phillips, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Residency, installation and symposium, UC Santa Barbara Link2008 "Installations by Liz Phillips," The Richard L. Nelson Gallery,UC Davis Link
2007 "Ginko Afterglow," Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Link
2004 "Liz Phillips: New Sound Works in the Project Room," Frederieke Taylor gallery, New York Link
1999 "Echo Evolution," The Kitchen, New York Link
1993 "Graphite Ground," Contemporary Art Center, Houston; Texas
1992 "Mersonic Illuminations," The World Financial Center, New York
1988 "Graphite Ground," The Whitney Museum, New York Link
1987 "Graphite Ground,"Capp Street Project, San Francisco Link
1985 "Sonar Eclipse," Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Massachusetts
1983 "Sunspots," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
1982 "Sound Syzygy," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Link Link
1981 "Windspun," Creative Time, New York Link Link
1978 "Mersonic Province I," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1978 "Mersonic Province II," Rene Block Gallery, Berlin
1978 "Mersonic Province III," Hagues Gemeentemuseum,The Netherlands
1977 "City Flow" The City University Graduate Center Mall, New Link
1975 "Broken/Unbroken Terracotta," The Kitchen, New York
1974 "Sound Structures," Artist's Space, New York
1971 "Sound Spaces," Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions (all responsive installations)
2008 "Echo Evolution", "Act/React", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. Link2007 "Wavetable ";" Sensory Overload", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI.
2004 "Echo-Location:Queens","Queens International", Queens Museum of Art, NY.
2003 "Wavetable", Tenth Anniversary, Frederieke Taylor gallery, NYC. Link
2002 "Re-Sound /Sound Screen", Lincoln Center Festival 2002 and The New York Video Festival, NYC. Link
2002 "Echo Evolution","Magic of Light"; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Link
2002 "Intermingling", "Light x 8", Jewish Museum, NY. Link
2001 "Shaded Bandwidths", Creative Time's Anchorage Show, NY. co / Anney Bonney; "Massless Medium", Brooklyn, NY. Link
2001 "Shaded Bandwidths" DVD installation. co/ Anney Bonney, Lincoln Center Video Festival, NY. Link
2001, "Suspended Frequencies" Boston Museum School, MA. co/Anney Bonney; "Dangerous Waves"Anderson Gallery.
1998 "Koi", "Luistervissen", Ijsbreker, Amsterdam.
1996 "Natural Spectacles," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. Link Link Link
1992 "Sound Tables II and III," The Interactive Show Threadwaxing Space, NYC.
1992 "Sound Tables I, II, III," Ten from Queens", PaineWebber Gallery, New York, Curated by Queens Museum.
1991 "Ars Electronica "88 and 91," Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria. Link
1990 "Pulse 2"; University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
1988 "Cymbol" New Urban Landscape; The World Financial Center, New York.
1987 "Cymbol" The Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, North Carolina.
1986 , "Engaging Objects: The Participatory Art of Mirrors, Mechanisms, and Shelters"The Clocktower, New York.
1985 "Whitney Windspun," 1985 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1984 IBM "Sunspots," Think Pocket, Japan, Tokyo.
1983 "Sonar Eclipse," in collaboration with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Park Avenue Armory, New York.
1982 "Sunspots," Soundings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, NY. Link Link
1981 "Sunspots," New Music America '81" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Link Link
1980 "Windspun for Minneapolis", "NewMusic America '80," Peav y Plaza, Minneapolis
1973 "Sumtime" Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Link
1971 "Electronic Banquet," Eighth Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival" 69th Infantry Regiment Armory, New York.
Other Lectures, Residencies, and Installations
Academie der KunsteArs Electronica
ArtPark
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Broward Community College
California Institute of the Arts
Capp Street Project
Cleveland Orchestra
Cooper Union
Harvard University
Jacobs Pillow
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
MIT
Pratt Institute
PS1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources
Riverside Research Institute
San Diego State University
State University of New York at Albany
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
State University of New York at Purchase
Mills College, New York University
University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
University of California at Santa Barbara
Stedelijk Museum
Tyler School of Art, University of Cincinnati
Whitney Museum of American Art
Woodstock Community Video
Grants and Commissions
2004,2000,1988,1986,1984 New York State Council on the Arts/Media2004 Phaedrus Foundation
2003 Jewish Museum
2000 Franklin Furnace
1987 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1987,1984 National Endowment for the Arts/ Interarts
1985,1983 National Endowment for the Arts/ New Genres
1981,1976 National Endowment for the Arts/ Composer's Fellowship
1982,1977 Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship/ Mixed Media
1981 Beard Fund
Exhibitions / Events Co-curated with Advanced Students
2004 "Intermedia Festival", Gershman Y, Philadelphia (co-curated with John Phillips)2003 "The Quiet Sound Show", Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY Link
2003 "Resound", Boston Museum of Fine Arts (received Purchase Affiliates Grant) Link
2002 "Resound for Dedicated Loudspeakers" Boston Museum of Fine Arts Link
Selected Bibliography
Ahlstrom, David. "Liz Phillips:Sunspots Installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art." Computer Music Journal , Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1982.Baker, Kenneth. "Art for the Ears at Capp Street Project". San Francisco Chronicle, January 1,1988 E2.
Cohen, Randy. "Synapse".
Close, Roy M. "Zephyr" Liz Phillips". St Paul Pioneer Press, May 28, 1984.
Concannon, Kevin." Sound Sculptures ? A Survey of American Work". Ars Electronica. Link
Howard, Christopher. "Queens International 2004Queens Museum of Art". The Brooklyn Rail, February 2005. Link
Hughes, Jeffrey. "Liz Phillips". Contemporary Arts Magazine, Review 19, Volume #63 2004, p.35-43.
Karson, Robin. "Art". Springfield News, March 10, 1983.
Krewani, Angela. "Immaterialising Sculpture-Transforming Spaces: Liz Phillips sound sculpture". Artefakte Artefiktionen, 2000, p. 301-311.
La Barbara, Joan. "Hi Fidelity Magazine".
Lovejoy, Margot. Digital Currents, 3rd Edition 2004.
Mirapaul, Matthew. "Art Festivals Buzz With Digital Deviltry". NY Times, June 13,2002.
Morrow, Charlie. "Sumtime". The Soho Weekly News, March 7, 1974 r-11.
Phillips, Patricia. "Liz Phillips Whiney Museum of Art". Artforum, October 1988 p.147.
Rabinowitz, Paula. "The Sounds of Sculpture / Liz Phillips: new sound works". NY Arts Magazine.#82, 2004. Link
Rabinowitz, Paula. "The Sound of Reformed Space, Liz Phillips's Responsive Installations". Performance Art Journal ", MIT Press, PAJ #72.
Reveaux, Tony. "The Responsive Rocks". Art Week, December 26, 1987 Volume 18 Page 5.
Roads, Curtis. "Liz Phillips: Windspun". Computer Music Journal Fall, 1981 Volume 5 Number 3.
Rockwell, John. "Avant-Garde: Liz Phillips Sound". The New York Times, Thursday May 14, 1981.
Sakane, Itsuo. "Asahi Shimbun" March 28, 1980.
Sanders, Linda. " Catching the Night Plain Sonic Syzygy ". The Village Voice, Vol XXX No.35 August 27, 1985.
Singer, . "Talk of the Town" Output. The New Yorker , April 18, 1977.
Zimmer, William. "Liz Phillips Frontier Composting Site, Hunts Point, Bronx; permanent installation". The Soho News, May 20, 1981.
Zummo, Peter. "Soho Weekly News"
Selectd radio and television appearances
Innovations Series on Art & Technology Liz Phillips, "Graphite Ground" 1988.Fuji Television Series " Art & Technology" , curated by Itsuo Sakane. 1981.
"Soundings" by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn 1983.
"New Music America - Minneapolis", Skip Blumberg.
"Sound Syzygy". Walker Art Center, James Byrne 1983.
"Interview with Sound Artist Liz Phillips", Terry Gross 1974. WBFO Radio 1974 Radio Interview with Terry Gross Link
Ars Electronica Link