Phil was born in Pittsburgh, PA and grew up in Naples, FL. He read Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology at Columbia College in the City of New York.
In 2006, Phil moved to Botswana (Southern Africa) for an experiential education. Maru-a-Pula School, the subject of his upcoming book, was both home and work for 2.5 intense years. He taught, presented papers, held photography and mixed-media exhibitions...and ithutile Setswana.
Having enrolled in the first cohort of the country's first Oral History masters program, Phil is once again a New Yorker. His conceptual interest is in deconstructing narrativity and intersubjective spaces in order to interrogate the utopian/dystopian foundations of community.
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exhibitions:
“All Dressed Up: Renarrativizing Contemporary African Masks” (solo)
- The Otto Contemporary Gallery of Fine Arts, Bradenton, FL, USA, April 2009
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Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, March 2009
Ricky Otto’s “Wandering the City” (co-curator)
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The Otto Contemporary Gallery of Fine Arts, Bradenton, FL, USA, January 2009
“Other Sides: An Investigation of Boundaries” (dual)
- Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana, April 2008
Ntwa Kgolo Ke Ya Molomo in “Artists in Botswana 2007”
- Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana, June 2007
- Commendation in Photography
“Contemporary African Masks and Converse Clichés” (solo)
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Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana, April 2007
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