faculty
Christopher Phillips
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Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips has been a curator at ICP since 2000. He has organized such exhibitions as Delmaet and Durandelle: The Construction of the Paris Opera (2001), The Rise of the Picture Press (2002), Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (2004), Atta Kim: On-Air (2006), Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan (2008), Eugène Atget: Archivist of Paris (2010), and Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide (2011). He was also a member of the curatorial team, which organizing the 2013 ICP Triennial, A Different Kind of Order.

Before coming to ICP, Phillips worked for ten years as a senior editor at Art in America magazine and was a member of the curatorial teams responsible for The Metropolis and the Art of the Twenties (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 1991), Montage and the Image of Modern Life (Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992), and Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 1999). In 1998, he organized the sound art exhibition Voices at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

His books include Photography in the Modern Era: European Documents and Critical Writings, 1913-1940 (1989), The New Vision: Photographs from the Ford Motor Company Collection (with Maria Morris Hambourg, 1989), and Shanghai Kaleidoscope (2008). He is an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Barnard College, where he teaches courses in the history and criticism of photography.

ICP Involvement

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Program ICP-Bard MFA