Phyllis Galembo


Phyllis Galembo is an American photographer living in New York City.
She has published seven monographs, including, Pale Pink, Vodou: visions and voices of Haiti, Divine inspiration: from Benin to Bahia, Dressed for thrills: 100 years of Halloween costumes & masquerade, Maske, Mexico: Masks, Rituals, and Sodo.
Phyllis Galembo taught studio photography at the State University of New York, Albany, and is now a Professor Emeritus of Studio Art in the Department of Art & Art History.
Galembo received a Senior Fulbright Research Award in 1993–94; was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 1996, 2010 and 2016; and was a John [Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation Fellow] in 2014.

Education

Galembo earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977.

Publications

Solo exhibitions

  • 1993: Divine Inspiration: From Benin To Bahia, Photographs By Phyllis Galembo, International Center of Photography. Work illustrating the religious traditions of Nigeria and the spiritual practices of Brazil introduced from Africa via the slave trade.
  • 1998: Kings, Chiefs, and Women of Power: Images from Nigeria, American Museum of Natural History
  • 2005: Sepia International
  • 2007: West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, curated by Ian Berry
  • Phyllis Galembo: Maske was exhibited at Steven Kasher Gallery in N.Y.C. in 2011

    Group exhibitions or during festivals

  • 2013: The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
  • 2020 Galembo's work was exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in a show entitled Phyllis Galembo: Maske.

    Collections

Galembo's works is held in the following permanent collections:
Category:Living people
Category:Photographers from New York City
Category:20th-century American photographers
Category:21st-century American photographers
Category:1952 births