Curator's Biography

Terri Phillips was born in Alabama and lives and works now in Los Angeles.  She studied art in Paris at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1996. She has published three books of poetry, makes sculptures out of candy and is represented by Acuna-Hansen Gallery. Her writing has appeared in Errant Bodies, Artillery, Art on Paper and Travel and Leisure.  Phillips has had solo exhibitions at the Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles (2003 and 2002), and has recently participated in group exhibitions at the Bart Wells Institute, London (2002); Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York; PS1, Long Island City, New York; Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles (2001); and Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (2000).