EDUCATION
1981 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
1977-78

Graduate Study, California State University, Fullerton

1972

Bachelor of Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

AWARDS
1996 Artist Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1996

Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles

1990

California Arts Council Artists Fellowship (Sculpture)

1986

Special Merit Award, "All California On A Small Scale,"
Howard Fox, Juror

1984-85

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Sculpture)

1981

Canada Council Project Grant

1977-80

Senior Tuition Scholarship, British Columbia Cultural Fund

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
2004-06 Chair, Santa Monica Arts Commission
2000-04

Commissioner, Arts Commission, City of Santa Monica, California

2000-04

Chair, Public Art Committee, City of Santa Monica

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
1995-97 Hollywood Fences Project, MTA A-R-T Program
1994

Montebello/Commerce Metrolink Station

1993

Hope Street Promenade Intersection Design Competition

EMPLOYMENT
2002-06 Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, University of Southern California
2003

Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder

1996-06

Lecturer, Art Department, University of California, Los Angeles

1989-06

Lecturer, Art Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

1996-98

Producer and host, "LOOK/ hear", KXLU 88.9 FM, Los Angeles

1998

Lecturer, Art Department, California State University, Fullerton

1992

Instructor, Art Department, Glendale College, Glendale, California

1990

Visiting Artist, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California

1982-83

Full-time Instructor, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 "Amelia and the Spinning Heads", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
1998

"Ceci n'est pas sa maison", Lemon Sky: A Project Space, Los Angeles

1996

"Biota", LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles

1995

"Maria Theresa", Art Gallery, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California

1994

"The Turkish Bath", Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

1994

Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield

1993

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

1991

Art Gallery, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California

1990

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

1989

Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York

1988

Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California

 

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1987

Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, California

1986

Natalie Bush Gallery, San Diego, California

1983

Turnbull, Lutjeans, Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

 

Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia

1982

Artspace, Los Angeles

1981

Students Union Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 “Fiction@Love”, MOCA, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2005

“ButtonsUp: LA”, curated by Nadfly, Glascow, Scotland, http://www.nadfly.com/buttonsupla.php

 

“Nouvelle Nuptials”, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA

 

“Adjunct”, Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2004

“Crazy Thoughts Have Quick Wings”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

 

“Take This Bread”, Gallery C, Los Angeles

2003

“Tinseltown”, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA

 

“Blue", Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego Mesa College, CA

 

“Sequel", Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA

 

"Pillars". Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

 

"Re-Inventing Pleasure: Ornamentation in Contemporary Ceramic Art", San Diego State University, CA (catalogue)

2001

"Cross Pollination", Los Angeles Arboretum, Arcadia, CA

 

"I Love NY", Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

 

“Between Representation: L.A.’s Greatest Unsigned Artists” INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

"Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

 

“Cross Pollination”, Holland Tunnel, New York, NY

2000

"Five Fresh Voices", Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

 

"Fahrenheit 2000", Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, (catalogue)

  "Made In California: Art, Image and Identity", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
 

"Elegant Whimsy: Low Tech/ High Art", Joslyn Fine Arts Gallery, Torrance, CA

 

"12 Divas: Selected Southern California Artists as Mentors and Heroes", Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

"Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

"CremolataFlottage" (curated by Sue Spaid) Staten Island Ferry, New York, NY

1999

"California Craft", (invitational), Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

 

"Studio Faculty", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

 

"Dalla Terra: From the Earth", Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy (catalogue)

 

"Sig-Alert 2", Central Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton

1999

"Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual, Suggestive", Ferrin Gallery, Massachusetts

 

"Sig-Alert", ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe (catalogue)

 

"Dalla Terra: From The Earth", Brewery Project, Los Angeles

1998

"Shoppost.com", Post Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"Ways and Means", Miller Durazo, Los Angeles

 

"The Compestible Compost", Pavilions Market, West Hollywood, California

 

Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia

 

"From Head To Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art", Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

"54th Annual Scripp's Invitational", Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California

1997

"My Favorite Femmes", Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"West Coast Painting and Sculpture 97", Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California (catalogue)

 

"On paper", Post Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"COLA: 1996-97 Individual Artists Grants", Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

"In Response", Marc Arranaga Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 

"Material: Kim Cridler & Phyllis Green", East Gallery, The Claremont Graduate School/Art, Claremont, California

1996

"Vessels", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

 

"California Focus: Selections from the Collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art", Long Beach Museum of Art, California

 

"100 Dollar Show", Post Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"The Puzzle", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California

 

"Thought Works @ L.A.", Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, Michigan

 

"Sexy : Sensual Abstraction in California 1950-1990", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California (catalogue)

  "Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in Painting", curated by Sue Spaid, Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
1995

The Lotus Motel Show, The Lotus Motel, Los Angeles

 

"Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in Painting", Victoria Room and Push! Gallery, San Francisco, California

 

"L.A. Current", Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles

 

"Del Guacal al Vaso", Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica

 

"Defining a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay”, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles

 

"Thought Works @ L.A.", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

"New Visions: Los Angeles Art in the 90's”, Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles

 

"Sexy”, Contemporary Artists Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

 

"Felicity”, curated by Phyllis Green, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"Artists and Dining”, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California

 

"Red and White", curated by Tressa Miller, Epicure, Santa Monica, California

  "Language of Form”, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
1994

"Doug Hammett’s 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Show”, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"New Shoes”, The Art Store, Los Angeles

 

"Artists’ Cups”, Space Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"The Sacred and the Profane," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"Women Sculptors: Working Proposals," Todd Madigan Gallery, CSU, Bakersfield

 

"Artist As Visionary," Gallery IV, Los Angeles

1993

"The Layered Look," organized by Sue Spaid, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"Sum: Art," The Art Store, Los Angeles

 

"UCLA: Onramps, Offramps, Exchange, Diversity," San Diego State University, San Diego

1992

"Obliquities; Los Angeles," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

"Summer 92," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

1991

"An Opening and A Closing," Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles

 

"Sculpture Innuendos," Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

 

"L.A. Artists #1," Gallery IV, Los Angeles

 

"Maquettes by California Artists," Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, California

 

"Vessels," Art Store Gallery, San Francisco

  "Light and Space: Phyllis Green and Beth Thielen," Art Works Gallery, Riverside, California
1990

"New Work: New York", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

 

"Southwest 90," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue)

 

"Small Sculpture," Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado

 

"Barbara Benish, Suvan Geer, Phyllis Green, John Millei," East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California

 

"Heal the Bay Surfboard Art Invitational," James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica

 

"Framing the Magic Circle," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles

 

"Disconnected Choices," Jose' Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles

1989

"Small Sculpture," Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado

  "Incest," American Gallery, Los Angeles
  "The Art Works-Plus," The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, California
  "Art and Soul," Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  "California Surrealist Sculpture," Bronx River Gallery, The Bronx, New York
1988 "East Side-West Side: Artists from Two Coasts," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
  "Masks," Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles
  "L'Art Compris/ Art in Jeopardy: An Exhibition of Previously Censored Works", Galerie Articule, Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
  "Summer 88," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
  "By Her Own Hand," Hillel Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1987 "Newcomers '87," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
  "Gallery Artists and Others," Natalie Bush Gallery, San Diego
  Group Show, Cantor Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
  "Showcase '87," California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
1986 "Gallery Gala," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
  "Three New Talents: Caper, DeBuck, Green," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
  "Wall Forms," Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  "Landscape/Elements," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  "All California On A Small Scale," Laguna Museum of Art, California (catalogue)
  "State of the Art," Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
  "Small Liberties: 25 Los Angeles Artists," SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, New York
1985 "The Missing Project: What's Missing In The Eighties; Ten Artists Respond," SPARC Gallery, Venice, California
  "Bridal Show," LACE, Los Angeles, California
1984 "Artists Call," Southern California Library for Social Research, Los Angeles, CA
  "Art In Clay; Thirty Years of Ceramic Art In Southern California," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park (Catalogue)
  "A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors '84," Design Center, Los Angeles
  "California Clay," Santa Ana College Art Gallery, California
1982 "A Clay Preface: New Constructions and Architectural Works by Kris Cox, Phyllis Green, and Kazuko Matthews," University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills (Catalogue)
 
"Extensions," Art Gallery, California State University, San Diego
  "Westwood Clay National," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1981 "Phyllis Green/Nick Vaughn, California Contemporary Series V," Laguna Museum of Art, California (catalogue)
  "37th Annual Scripps Ceramic Invitational," Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California (catalogue)
1980 "Tough: Southern California Women's Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition"
Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge (catalogue)
  "Exotic Objects," Art Gallery, Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, CA

 

SELECTED REVIEWS
  Wood, Eve, “Phyllis Green Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Bridge Magazine http://bridgemagazine.org/7-03art/green.html
 

Newhouse,Kristina,"Sequel"atDomesticSetting,artnet.com, http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/newhouse/newhouse4-17-03.asp

  Roth, Charlene, "Narrative, Humor, and Craft ", Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 9, November 2001, pp. 40-45.
  Wood, Eve, "Between Representation: LA's Greatest Unsigned Artists at INMO Gallery, Artweek, September 2001, pp. 23-24.
  Harvey, Doug, "Gender, Race", LA Weekly, Auguest 4-10, 2000, p.47.
  Ollman, Leah, "Art Reviews: Image Leaders", Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2000, p. F21.
  Peterson, Susan, Contemporary Ceramics, Watson-Guptill Publications: New York, 2000, p.19.
  Selz, Peter, "The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics", in Lauria, Jo, ed.,
  Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000, Rizzoli: New York, 2000, pp.187-189.
  Spaid, Sue, "L.A. Undercover: A Profile of the Alternative Projects", Art Papers, March/ April 1998, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp.14-17.
  Wilson, William, "'Head to Toe' Mixes Education, Fun", Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1998, p. F12.
  Knight, Christopher, "A COLA That Refreshes", Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1997, p. F1.
  "Vance Fever", People Magazine, January 27, 1997, pp. 96-97. (reproduction)
  Kapitanoff, Nancy, "Feminist Visions in Clay", Ceramics: Art and Perception International, No. 25 1996, pp. 48-52.
  Greenstein, M.A., "Lotus Motel", World Art, #2, 1996, p.93.
  Green, Roger, "L.A. artists' work is inspirational", Kalamazoo Gazette, February 18, 1996, p. E6
  Pagel, David, "Hit-and-Miss Affair in 'Sexy' Show", Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1996, p. F24.
  Reiter, Artemesia, "Hyper Femmes Fatales at Victoria Room and Push!", San Francisco Bay Times, November 2, 1995.
  Bonetti, David, "Gallery Watch", San Francisco Examiner, October 27, 1995.
  Goglio, Marcela, "Creative Cups: Designers make art out of daily essentials", Costa Rica Today, July 27, 1995.
  Crowder, Joan, "A 'Language' in common", Santa Barbara News-Press, April 14, 1995.
  Kandel, Susan, “It’s Hot and Steamy in Phyllis Green’s ‘Turkish Bath’”, Los Angeles Times, November 17, 1994, p. F13.
  Brown, Betty Ann, "The Color Weal: A New American Art in Los Angeles," Visions Art Quarterly, Fall 1993, pp. 21-23.
  Kandel, Susan, "An Inspired Mess," Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1993, F7.
  Kathy Zimmerer, "Phyllis Green at Pierce College Art Gallery," Visions Magazine, September, 1992.
  Devorah Knaff, "The Sculptor As Playwright," Artweek, December 5, 1991.
  Judith A. Hoffberg, "Phyllis Green and Beth Thielen," Artscene: The Monthly Guide to Art in Southern California, May, 1991, P. 23, also cover illustration.
  Steve Barilotti and Art Brewer, "Art Under Glass," Surfer Magazine, February 1991, pp. 58-60.
  Suzanne Muchnic, exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1990, p. F4.
  William Zimmer, "'California Surrealism' in Bronx Show," New York Times, Sunday,
February 5, 1989, p. 30.
  Michael Anderson, "Phyllis Green at Jan Baum," Art In America, January, 1989, pp. 158-159.
  Michelle Huneven, "The Art Artists Collect," California, December, 1988, pp. 88-93.
  Dinah Berland, "Inviting Pairing at LBCC," Long Beach Press Telegram, Part F2,
December 4, 1988, p. 2.
  Margaret Lazzari, "A Deceptive Simplicity," Artweek, May 28, 1988, p. 23.
  Marlena Donohue, exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, Part VI, May 20, 1988, p. 13.
  Leah Goldman, "At The Galleries," Los Angeles Times (San Diego Edition), July 31, 1987, p. 5.
  Suzanne Muchnic, "Newcomers: A Familiar Story," Los Angeles Times, Part VI,
October 17, 1987, p. 5.
  Susan Freudenheim, "Downtown shows provocative," San Diego Tribune, July 22, 1987, p. 14.
  Kristine McKenna, exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, Part VI, September 12, 1986, p. 8.
  Robert McDonald, At The Galleries, Los Angeles Times (San Diego Edition), Part VI,
June 6, 1986, p. 10.
  Chuck Nicholson, "Compact and Controlled," Artweek, May 31, 1986, p. 11.
  "Artscan," Images and Issues, January/February, 1984, p. 84 (photo).
  Mac McLoud, "A Clay Preface", Images and Issues, March/April, 1983, p. 52.
  Suzanne Muchnic, "West Los Angeles" (exhibition review), Los Angeles Times, Part IV, June 4, 1982, p. 14.
  Suzanne Muchnic, "Sacramento Art Exhibit In Laguna," Los Angeles Times, Part VI,
March 22, 1982, p. 6.