Phoebe Washburn

b. 1973, Poughkeepsie, NY

Education

2002
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1996
BFA, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Awards/Grants

2009
Louise Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
2005
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award Recipient
2002
Marie Walsh Studio Program Recipient
1996
The Rusty Collier Memorial Award in Studio Art, Newcomb, Tulane University

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Selected solo exhibitions

2024
Giving Good Fwar Gwaar, Marinaro, New York, NY
2013

Pressure Drop for Richard Stands (a history of one thing to another in lemon-aideness), Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2012
Nudes, Housed Within Their Own Clothes and Aware of Their Individual Thirst, Descending a Staircase, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
My Rubies and My Diamonds, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Nunderwater Nort Lab, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Temperatures in a Lab of Superior Specialness, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Compeshitstem: the new deal, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2008
Tickle the Shitstem, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Vacational Trappings and Wildlife Worries, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2006
2 BLT’s (Bought and Lovely Towns), Lipstick Building, 53rd and 3rd, New York, NY
2005
It Has No Secret Surprise, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
It Makes For My Billionaire Status, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Nothing’s Cutie, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Seconds of Something, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Bored Buys Options, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Greed. The Landscape Maker, Lerimonti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2003
Heavy has Debt, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell University, Grinnell, IA
True, False and Slightly Better, Rice University Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
2002
Between Sweet and Low, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

Selected group exhibitions

2014
There is no such thing as a good decision, Josée Bienvenu, New York, NY
2013
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Flights From Wonder, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL;
Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2011
The Influentials, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
In Bloom, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2010
Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
natural renditions, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Reconstruct + Deconstruction, Visual Arts Center, Courtyard Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Open, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Back to the Garden, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
microwave, seven, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Couples & Relations, DREI Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne, Germany
2008
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
microwave, six, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
The Way Things Go, Susan Inglett, New York, NY
2006
Burgeoning Geometries, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY
Wallpaper LAB, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY
Ping Pong Diplomacy, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY
2005
The Bench, Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Make It Now, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Strange Architecture, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
AIM 22: Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Slice and Dice, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2003
Rubbish, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2002
Art New York, kunstraume auf Zeit, Linz, Austria
DNA @DNA, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Everyday Materials, Westside Gallery, New York, NY
All You Can Eat, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001
Integrated Aesthetics, School of Visual Arts Satellite Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999
The Shape of Things to Come, Forma Gallery, New York, NY
Tree, Installation, Silverwood Street, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Invitational Show, Radiance Gallery, Greensboro, NC
An Artist’s Eye, The Greensboro Artists' League, Greensboro, NC
1997
Breakout, Rosetree Gallery, New Orleans, LA