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Heather Raquel Phillips is an artist, independent curator and educator living and working in their native region, Philadelphia. Phillips is a Fluid, mixed-race person of Afro-Boricuan descent. Generating through an interdisciplinary system, Phillips work focuses on the joy and personal agency of marginalized people using topics addressing power, sexuality and deviance.
Phillips, a first generation college graduate, earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors, from Tyler School of Art (2008) and her Master of Fine Arts from The University of Pennsylvania (2016), where she was the recipient of the Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship, Stuart Engle Scholarship & The Silverstein Photography Studio Abroad. Phillips lectures in Undergraduate Fine Arts and Design in the The Weitzman School of Design, as well as, in the Visual & Performing Arts Department at The Lincoln University.
Phillips work has been featured in multiple art & cultural publications including, Hyperallergic, ArtForum.com, Title Magazine, Sixty (Inches From Center), ArtBlog, Philadelphia Gay News and WHYY.com.. She received the 2017 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant and the 2020 Transformation Award. In 2019 Phillips was the Visiting Scholar at the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago, where she was elected as board member in 2020. In 2020 she curated a textile gallery on the front of her home called, “Pinch-hitter Projects” which was funded by the Art is Essential Grant in 2021. In the Summer of 2022 she will attend the Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprenticeship. Phillips’ writing was recently published in The Black Scholar, Issue No. 50.2: At The Limits of Desire, Black Radical Pleasure. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
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