Julia Phillips lives and works in Chicago and Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York and Kunstverein Braunschweig and was featured in the 10th Berlin Biennial, the New Museum Triennial and 59th Venice Biennale. Her work has been shown at museums including the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Whitney Museum and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Julia Phillips recently completed her first public art work commission titled “Observer, Observed” for the NY High Line, published her first monograph “Energy Exchange” with Mousse Publishing Milan and her work is included in the current Whitney Biennial.

The focal points of her artistic and scientific work are psychoanalysis, body and embodiment, choreography, Afro-German, Afro-American and Afro-Atlantic culture.

Phillips is currently in the research and development stage of a large-scale multi-channel video installation titled “Pentasomnia”.  It takes inspiration from the subconscious and addresses questions of a.o. interpersonal relations, cross-race dynamics and diversity and power struggles in institutions using elements of surrealism and Black and psychoanalytic symbolism.

Julia Phillips‘ tandem partner is Dustin Breitenwischer, Junior Professor for American Studies at Universität Hamburg.

Her HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by Universität Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.