“Headshot”, 2018, photo credit: Julia Phillips & Keisha Scarville
Born 1985 in Hamburg, lives and works in Chicago and Berlin.
Education
2020: Open Classes Student at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (virtual), Chicago
2015 - 2016: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (Studio), NYC
2013 - 2015: MFA at Columbia University, School of the Arts, NYC
2006 - 2012: Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts (HFBK), Hamburg
Solo Exhibitions
2022: ‘Me, Ourself & You’ at Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC
2021: ‘Between Love and Loss’ at Matthew Marks Gallery, L.A.
2020: 'New Album' at Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC
2019: 'Fake Truth' at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
2018: 'Failure Detection' at MoMA PS1, NYC
2016: 'Impenetrable Entry' at Campoli Presti, London
2013: 'Several Reasons to Migrate' at Hinterconti, Hamburg
2012: Thesis Show 'One.Equal.' at HFBK Hamburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025: ‘A Decade of Artists in Residence’ at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
2025: ‘Preformance on Paper’ at the Hammer Museum of Art, L.A.
2025: ‘It’s Just a Matter of Time’ at Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
2024: ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum, NYC
2024: ‘Mother Lode: Material and Memory’ at James Cohen Gallery, NYC
2023: ‘Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane’ at Frac des Pays de la Loire, France
2023: ‘Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Fellowship’ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2023: `Words Don’t Go There’ at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
2023: ‘Sightlines’ at Bard Graduate Center, NYC
2023: ‘Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present’ at Drawing Center, NYC
2022: ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past’ at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2022: ‘A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II' at the Hammer Museum, L.A.
2022: ‘The Milk of Dreams’ 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2022: 'Body Vessel Clay’ at Two Temple Place, London
2021: ‘Smashing Into my Heart’ at the Renaissance Society, Chicago
2021: 'The Society For Contemporary Art Annual Exhibition’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
2021: 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' at the New Museum, NYC
2020: 'Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects' at Whitney Museum, NYC
2020: 'A Million Roses for Angela Davis' at Albertinum, Dresden
2020: 'Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio' at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2020: 'Studio Berlin' at Berghain in corporation with the Boros Foundation, Berlin
2020: 'Frank Walter - eine Retrospektive' at MMK Frankfurt
2020: 'Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2020: 'Haptic Feedback' at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2019: 'One hundred drawings' at Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC
2019: 'Contemporary Art: Five Propositions' at MFA Boston
2019: 'Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000' at MASP São Paulo
2019: 'i campi magnetici' at Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan
2019: 'Performing Society: The Violence of Gender' at Tai Kwun JC Contemporary, Hong Kong
2018: 'Positioner' at Matthew Marks Gallery, L.A.
2018: 'In The Air' at ma ma Projects, Toronto
2018: 'Sculptures' at Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2018: 'Re: Re: Black Macho. Unleash the Queen' at PPC, Frankfurt
2018: 'We don't need another hero', 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2018: 'Face of Another' at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2018: New Museum Triennial 'Songs for Sabotage', NYC
2017: 'We Go As They' Artists in Residence, 3-person exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
2017: 'Dreamers Awake' at White Cube (Bermondsey), London
2017: 'That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on:' at The Kitchen, NYC
2016: Whitney ISP show at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
2016: 'In Place Of' at Miguel Abreu Gallery, NYC
2015: 'A Constellation' at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
2015: MFA Thesis Exhibition at Fisher Landau Center for Art, L.I.C.
2013: 'Erogenous Zone' at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Commissions
2022: ‘Observer, Observed’, Public Sculpture for The High Line (26th St), New York
Public Collections
2024: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2022: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2022: Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2021: Art Institute of Chicago, US
2020: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2020: UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2020: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
2019: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2019: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
2018: Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, US
2018: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2017: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, US
2016: Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Awards / Fellowships
2024: Creative Capital Award (US)
2024: Graham Foundation Research & Development Grant (US)
2024: UChicago Faculty Grant (US)
2024: UChicago Chicago Studies Grant (US)
2024: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institude Research & Development Grant (US)
2023: Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation Artadia Award (US)
2023: Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS) Fellowship (DE)
2021: Stiftung Kunstfonds Catalog Grant for Monograph (DE)
2021: Lichtwark-Förderpreis (Support Grant), Hamburg (DE)
2021: UChicago CSRPC Mellon Grant (US)
2020: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Grant (DE)
2013: 1-year Scholarship by DAAD (DE)
2012: 6-months Scholarship by DAAD (DE)
2009: Grant by the Circle of Friends of HFBK Hamburg (DE)
2008: Grant by the Karl-Heinz-Ditze Foundation, Hamburg (DE)
Residencies
2024: EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
2017: Vila Sul, Goethe Institut Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2017: Denniston Hill, Upstate New York
2016 - 2017: The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
2016: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Teaching
2020: Appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA) at the University of Chicago
2018: Appointment as Postgraduate Fellow in the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA) at the University of Chicago
Public Events
2025: Kolloquium - Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Hamburg, Germany
2024: Symposium on Contemporary Sculpture - Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK), Hamburg, Germany
2024: Symposium ‘Aesthetic Resistance’ - University of Hamburg, Dept of American Studies, Hamburg, Germany
2024: Symposium on Multilingual Germans at Princeton University, Princeton
2024: Artists on Artists Lecture, Dia Art Foundation, NYC
2024: Symposium on multilingual Germans at Princeton University, Princeton
2024: Book Launch of Monograph “Energy Exchange” at the Graham Foundation, Chicago
2024: Visiting Artist Lecture at the Core Program, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2024: Artist Lecture, Society of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2023: Summer Series: Julia Phillips In Conversation with Douglas Fogle - Guest Lecture at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village
2023: “Julia Phillips in Sculpture“ Visiting Artist Lectures - Guest Lecture at Yale University, School of Art, New Haven
2023: Visiting Artist Lecture Series - Guest Lecture at Columbia University, School of the Arts, NYC
2022: Methodology Workshop on Studio Visits, Organized by Chat About at UChicago, Chicago
2022: ’Between Love and Loss’ Visiting Artist Lecture at Art Center Pasadena, MFA Program, Pasadena
2019: "Baisser Mon Froc" - Presentation for 'Dancing Politics, Moving Performance II' at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, presented by University of the Arts, Philadelphia, MFA in Dance, curated by Rizvana Bradley, Yale University, New Haven
2018: "The Anonymous Body" - Keynote Lecture for Symposium 'Performances of No-thingness', curated by Nana Adusei-Poku as part of 'Colonial Repercussions' at Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018: “Open Practice Committee” - Guest Lecture at University of Chicago, DoVA, Chicago
2017: The Studio Museum - Public Programming, NYC
2017: The Kitchen NYC 'L.A.B.' series, NYC
2016: Participation in Podcast on 'Black Female Subjectivity' with NLS Kingston (part of the series 'IN'), Kingston, Jamaica
2015: Artist Talk in conjunction w/ Antje Majewski's seminar on Post-Colonialism (Professor at Muthesius Academy of Arts, Kiel) at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2013: 'Feminist Magazines in Conversation' (as part of 'CALL') at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
2013: Panel Discussion 'Welche Sprache sprichst du?' at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (as a representative of 'CALL')
Collaborations
2016: 'Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter'
2013: 'ƒƒ' - international collaborative of female artists (-> fffffff.org)
2012: 'CALL' - feminist art projects, zine on art and feminism (-> callzine.org)