| PHYLLIS GALEMBO Master of Fine Arts (Photography/Printmaking), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1977 Teaching experience Professor, Fine Arts Department, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1978-present (click here for faculty profile) Visiting Photography Professor, Parsons School of Design, West Africa Program, Ivory Coast, Summer 1988-89 Books Dressed for Thrills, 100 Years of Halloween/masquerade costume, Harry Abrams Press, 2002 Vodou: Visions and Voice of Haiti, by Phyllis Galembo, introduction by Gerdes Fleurant, 10 Speed Press, 1998, reprinted 2005 Aso-ebi, Cloth of the Family, by Phyllis Galembo, essay by Dympna Ugwu-Oju, 1997, sponsored by New York Council for the Arts, Catalogue Grant Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia, University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Photographs by Phyllis Galembo with essays by David Byrne, Robert Farris Thompson, Joseph Nevadomsky, Norma Rosen and Zeca Ligiero Pale Pink, by Phyllis Galembo, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1982 Selected One Person Exhibitions 2007 West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY July 14 - December 30 (click here for the gallery exhibition link) 2005 Phyllis Galembo, Dressed for Thrills: Halloween and Masquerade Costumes, Philip Slein Gallery, Saint Louis, MO. Oct 21 – Nov 19 (click here for the gallery exhibition link) Phyllis Galembo, Sepia / The Alkazi Collection, New York City, Jun 23 – July 29 (click here for exhibition reviews) 2004 Dressed for Thrills: Halloween and Masquerade Costumes, Albany Institute of History and Art. Sep 4 – Dec 5 Visions of Haiti, Vodou and Carnivale: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 20 Feb – 16 May 2003 Dressed for Thrills: Halloween and Masquerade Costumes, F.I.T. Museum, New York. Oct 21, 2003 – January 3, 2004 2002 Manifestions of the Spirit, Newark Museum, Newark, NY. Feb 2002-Dec 2002 2001 Manifestations of the Spirit, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. (click here for the museum exhibition link) 1999 Kings, Chiefs, Women of Power, Nigeria, La Galeria Sacred Stone, Santa Fe Kings, Chiefs, Women of Power, Nigeria, University of Missouri, Kansas City 1998 Kings, Chiefs, Women of Power, Nigeria, American Museum of Natural History, New York 1996 Haitian Vodou, Cavin Morris, New York 1995 Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia, Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, New York Photogroup Center, Coral Gables, Florida 1994 National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio 1993 Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia, International Center for Photography, New York City (click here to view an online exhibition of works) Recent Grants 1998 Faculty Research Award for Halloween/masquerade costumes 1996 Artists’ Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York 1996 Catalogue Grant, New York Council for the Arts, New York 1993-94 Senior Fulbright Research Award, Kings, Chiefs and Women of Power, Nigeria Recent Invited Lectures/Visiting Artist Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; New York University, NY; University of Connecticut, Storrs; Summer Photography Institute, New York University; International Center for Photography New York City; Photogroup Center, Coral Gables, Florida; Arts Council, African Studies Association Triennial Meeting, N.Y.C.; Northeastern Association of Brazilionists, Union College, Schenectady, New York; Colloquium on The Primitive Arts of Africa, Mesoamerica and Oceania, University Museum of Long Beach, Long Beach, California; O Ritual E O Sagrado, No Brasil E Na Nigeria, USIS, UFPE, FUNDAJ, Recife, Brazil. Public and Private Collections Houston Museum of Art, Houston,Texas; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, NY; Polaroid Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Photography Study Collection, New York return to the top of the page |
