Kimberly Phillips

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Kimberly Phillips is a writer, educator and curator in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is Director of SFU Galleries at Simon Fraser University.

Career

Phillips holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Visual Art & Theory from the University of British Columbia. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels, often teaching curatorial practice and the history of modern and contemporary visual art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) . Phillips is Sessional Faculty at ECUAD and is Course Leader for the Low Residence Masters of Applied Art program. [1] Phillips has authored numerous articles and exhibition catalogues on contemporary art and artists. Her writings have appeared in Artforum, [2] Canadian Art Magazine, [3] and Fillip. [4]

Phillips was Director/Curator at Access Gallery (2013-2017), where she curated several exhibitions, including Some Spontaneous Particulars: Vanessa Brown, Heide Hinrichs, Kathleen Ritter on emerging artists, working both nationally and internationally. [5] In addition, at Access she initiated Twenty-Three Days at Sea: Travelling Artist Residency. [6] [7] Phillips has also held positions such as interpretation coordinator for the Vancouver Art Gallery and curatorial resident at 221A. [8]

From 2017-2020 she was the Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery. [9] Vancouver, a non-profit public art gallery. In 2020, she was appointed as the Director of SFU Galleries at Simon Fraser University. In 2022, she was one of the writers contributing to Althea Thauberger's publication, The State of the Situation. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kimberly Phillips | Emily Carr University". www.connect.ecuad.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Artforum.com" . Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  3. ↑ "You searched for Kimberly Phillips – Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  4. ↑ Fillip. "Fetishism, Curiosity, and the Work of Brian Jungen (Kimberly Phillips)". Fillip. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  5. ↑ "Access Gallery's New Director/ Curator! - Access Gallery". Access Gallery. 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  6. ↑ "A young artist is stuck at sea, and it might be the best thing that's ever happened to her | CBC Arts". CBC. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. ↑ "Artists will spend 23 days at sea during Access Gallery cargo ship residency". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  8. ↑ "Call for 2015-16 Curatorial Residents". 221A. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  9. ↑ "Kimberly Phillips appointed Curator at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver". Galleries West. 2017-03-28.
  10. ↑ "Events". cagvancouver.org. Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
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