Phoebe (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from Rhode Island. She holds a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a current second-year graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is 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 debris from the perspectives of art, hoarding disorder, 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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