03/11/2022
So for anyone who doesn't know, let me introduce the phenomenal who I have had the great honor of knowing and photographing...
Phylicia Ghee is an interdisciplinary visual artist, photographer and curator. Ghee’s artwork documents transition, explores healing, ritual, ceremony & personal rites-of-passage. She is interested in the intersection between the physical and the spiritual. Taught by her Grandfather at an early age; works in photography, performance, video, fibers, mixed media, installation & painting. She earned her BFA in Photography with a Concentration in Curatorial Studies from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010.
Ghee has exhibited her work at The Baltimore Museum of Art , Galerie Myrtis, The Egyptian Embassy, The Margulies Warehouse (Miami, FL), Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy) and The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, where she was commissioned to make work for the private collection. More recently, Ghee exhibited and performed at Art on the Vine (Martha’s Vineyard), Young Collectors Contemporary (Memphis, TN), The Walters Art Museum as 2019 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist, Fridman Gallery (NY, 2020 Virtual Exhibition) and The African American Museum (Philadelphia, PA). Ghee was also named 2020 Baker Artist Award Finalist, 2020 Pratt>FORWARD Fellow (Mickalene Thomas & Jane South) and 2020 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist. She has received recognition from Maryland’s First Lady Yumi Hogan & the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration for her art and activism in raising awareness on issues surrounding mental health, behavioral health and substance use disorder. In addition to her art practice, Ghee has worked as a professional photographer for over 15 years. She just finished a 4-month contract working as the Official Photographer for the U.S. Capitol, House of Representatives. Ghee is the first Black Woman in American history to ever hold this position at the U.S. Capitol.
