Phil America (born 1983)[1] is an American artist who creates conceptual artworks mixed with design and photography.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the USA,[2] Bangkok,[3] Seoul[4] and other cities around the world.[5][6] He has created temporary installations at an abandoned platform beneath a New York City subway station,[citation needed] and on the
Mexico–United States barrier as well as other works in public space.[7]
Work
Dating back to his roots in
graffiti,[8] America has created art in public space as well as documenting it in his books. In 2013 he created a fabricated living quarters in a suburb in
Bangkok, later showing it in a local museum.[9] He later created what he calls "illegal galleries" in a number of places, including on the
Mexico–United States barrier,[10] in an abandoned New York City
Metropolitan Transportation Authority station[11][12] and at a Los Angeles swap meet.[13]
In 2014 America spoke at a
TEDx conference on the language of art and the importance of using art to make positive social changes in the world, amongst other topics.
In 2016 he lived in a museum as a part of one of his installations[2] that was first installed illegally in a
tent city in San Jose where he lived for one month.[14]
Also in 2016 his work was unveiled as one of the permanent art installations at
Golden 1 Center, the
Sacramento Kings' new arena.[15] The work consists of hundreds of cut-up player worn basketball shoes and forms a large Kings logo.
In 2018, America collaborated with fashion designer
Boris Bidjan Saberi on their Spring / Summer 2018 collection.[16][17]
Exhibitions
Installations
2016: Player Edition, Golden 1 Center (Sacramento Kings NBA arena),
Sacramento, USA[18]