For more than fifty years, Queens-based artist Liz Phillips (b. 1951, Jersey City) has been making interactive, multi-media installations. Creating responsive environments that sense wind, plants, fish, people, water, and food, she uses sound as her primary descriptive material.

Phillips has exhibited at museums, galleries, festivals, and public spaces, including Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, Milwaukee Art Museum, Queens Museum, Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Museum, Ars Electronica, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, René Block gallery, and frederieke taylor gallery. She has been presented by Creative Time, the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM Japan, and the World Financial Center. Her site-specific installations have transformed public spaces including an alternative energy site in a South Bronx wind turbine, the anchorage under the Brooklyn Bridge, Minneapolis’s Peavy Plaza, and Artpark in Lewiston, NY. 

Recent commissions include Waves Crossing by Harvestworks at Governors Island and Relative Fields in a Garden, a 22-channel installation and 100-foot mural painted by her daughter, Heidi Howard, for the Queens Museum’s center atrium. In Philadelphia, with Annea Lockwood, she created two installations, The River Feeds Back and Inside the Watershed. 

Phillips received her BA from Bennington College in 1973, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986, and has also been commissioned by New York State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts. Phillips collaborates with the audience and other artists, including Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Simone Forti, Mary Lucier, Nam June Paik, and Yoshimasa Wada.