Phoebe is an interdisciplinary artist from Rhode Island, currently residing in Pflugerville, TX. She holds a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received the John A. Chironna Scholarship and the Paul Krot Memorial Scholarship for excellence in photography. Her project Bad Dogs won the 2024 Film Photo Student Award sponsored by Kodak and has been featured by Fotofilmic, Musée Magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. Phoebe was one of Review Santa Fe’s 100 featured photographers at Center in 2024. She recently received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was the 2023-2025 recipient of the Russell Lee Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Photography and the 2023-2025 William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Presidential Fellow.

Much of Phoebe’s work emerges from her intimate relationships and connection to her childhood home-turned-junkyard. Phoebe approaches accumulation, waste, and memory from the perspectives of art, psychology, and American consumerism. Her practice is a cathartic tool that she uses to navigate life. This involves serious play; transfiguring trash, observing breakdowns of value, negotiating function, and making magic from the everyday. Phoebe believes in the power of collaborative art making to demonstrate alternatives and create new paths that challenge the status quo. This can range from reconsidering responses to mental illness and repairing relationships to reclaiming agency within alienating systems.

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