Alexandra Phillips

Alexandra Phillips (Port Chester NY, 1988) is an American artist currently working in Rotterdam. She spent much of her educational years in North Carolina, where she attended an art-oriented high school programme at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work comments on our fleeting and insatiable existence with a light touch and a witty sense of humour. She works with the intrinsic but often overlooked properties of everyday materials, showing us their unforeseen potential and appeal. Phillips attended the Penland School of Crafts (2006), received a Van Lier Fellowship (2013), was resident artist at Atelier Mondial in Basel, Switzerland (2016) and attended the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2017. In 2020, she received a research and development grant from the CBK of Rotterdam. Her work was nominated for the 2021 Royal Prize for Modern Painting. She has received support from Stichting Droom en Daad and Mondriaan Fonds. In 2011, Phillips co-founded Purepropaganda.org Magazine with artist Jan Henderikse (born 1932 Delft NL), an absurdist design agency that continues to operate in various forms today.