EDUCATION

1997 Master of Fine Art, Metals/Jewelry University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1986 Bachelor of Art: Communication Design, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Sediment. Two-person exhibition: Maria Phillips & Seth Papac. Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h Montreal, QC

2024 At What Point? 4Culture Gallery, Seattle WA

2019 Hidden in Plain Sight. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WA

2002 Augment. Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2001 Between A collection of random thoughts. Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH

1999 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

1998 Internal Diversions. Stix Friedman Gallery at Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Unbearable Lightness of 300 Tons a Day. North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2022 Tag, You’re It! Curator: Kiff Slemmons. C-presented by Gallery Loupe and The Jewelry Library, in conjunction with NYC Jewelry Week

2020 Fiber 2020. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA

2019 Plastic Beach. Storefront Media, 4Culture Gallery, Seattle, WA

2019 Purpose/Process/Paper. Curators: Kiff Slemmons and Cat Bower, Chicago, Il

2018 Second Nature. Maria Phillips - Philipe Hyojung Recology AIR Program. Seattle, WA

2017 Biba Shutz, Maria Phillips, Sondra Sherman. Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, QC

2016 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial: Metalmorphosis. Bellevue, WA

2016 Well-Worn Narratives: Mia McEldowney Jewelry Collection. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2015 Homework. Loconia Gallery. Curator: Donna Veverka, Boston, MA  

2013 Crush II. Curators: Sara Brown and Galatea Kontos

2012 Hanging Around: Necklaces from the MAD Collection. Museum of Arts and Design, NY Clasp. Curator: Robert Longyear. Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO  

2012 Tangible Competitive Intangibles. Curators: Claire Cowie and Robert Yoder. Jacob Lawrence Gallery. University of Washington, Seattle, WA 

2012 Badges and Buttons -Waistcoats and Vests. Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA Curators: Elizabeth Turrell and Robert Ebendorf 

2011 Us in Flux. Sponsored by Lawrimore Project. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA

2010 Body/Image. Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Celebrating 70. Facere Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 

2009 Stimulus Project. Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts 

2008 West meets West. Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, U.K. Represented by Velvet da Vinci, CA Refined V: Abundance. Biennial exhibition, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. Juror: Charon Kransen

2008 New West Coast Design: Jewelry and Metalwork. Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 

2007 Two Cans: Works Between Maria Phillips and Sarah Turner. Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h Bijoux D’Art, Montreal, Quebec 

2007 SOFA: New York. The David Collection, Pound Ridge, NY 

2006 Two Woman, Two Continents: Maria Phillips and Iris Boedemer. Curator: Sharon Campbell, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 

2006 Edges of Grace: Provocative Uncommon Craft. Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2005 Beyond the Body: Northwest Jewelers at Play. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2005 Shift. Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA 

2005 Hanging in Balance: Forty-two Contemporary Necklaces. Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Gallery,   University of Texas at El Paso. Traveling exhibition and catalog.

2005 SOFA: New York. The David Collection, Pound Ridge, NY 

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

2017 Seattle Metals Guild Established Artist Grant, Seattle, WA

2016 John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

2004 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, Seattle, WA

2001 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founders Prize, Second Place. Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

2001 American Craft Emerging Artist Grant.

1999 Juror’s Award. 19th Annual Northwest International Art Competition. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

1998 Award of Excellence. Smithsonian Craft Show. Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.

ARTIST RESIDENCES  

2018  Recology King County AIR Program. Five-month residency at the Recology Material Resource Facility working with material culled from various recycling streams.

2003 John Michael Kohler Art Center. Three-month Arts/Industry Program, Foundry and Enameling.

2003 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina. Nine-week Artist in Residence. Sponsored by the Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

2000 Oregon College of Arts and Craft: Jewelry+Metals. Portland, Oregon. 

1999 Poncho Artist in Residence. Pratt Center of Fine Arts, Seattle, Washington

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES AND SEMINARS

2024 Cranbrook Academy of Art. Fall Semester sabbatical replacement for Iris Eichenberg in the Metals/Jewelry department. 

2022 Rhode Island School of Design. Professional Practices Lecturer, Jewelry/Metals Department.

2021 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Metals Dept: Bloomfield Hills, MI Electroforming workshop, lecture, and critique.

2018 Rhode Island School of Design, Jewelry/Metals Department Providence, RI Undergraduate critique.

2018 Recology King County Artist in Residence Program. Seattle, WA

2018 When Process is the Work. Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR Workshop, lecture and critique.

2017 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Metals Dept: Bloomfield Hills, MI Lecture and Critique.

2014 Rhode Island School of Design, Jewelry/Metals Department Providence, RI Lecturer Graduate Seminar and Critique, Spring Semester

2012 “Inside – Out,” Rhode Island School of Design, Jewelry/Metals Department Providence, RI Lecture, Graduate Seminar and Critique, Spring Semester

2012 “Re] IMAGEning,” Cranbrook Academy of Art. Metals Dept. Bloomfield Hills, MI Maria Phillips & Lori Talcott

2011 “It’s all a process, right?” California College of Art, Oakland CA. Metals Department Lecture and Seminar

2011 University of Indiana, Jewelry/Metals Department, Bloomington IN Lecturer, Graduate Seminar, Critique and Electroforming Workshop.

2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Jewelry/Metals Department, Providence, RI Lecture, Graduate Seminar, Critique, Spring Semester.

PUBLICATIONS

2005 “The Penland Book of Jewelry: Master Classes in Jewelry Techniques,” Electroforming.

2004 “Collect: New Art Fair for Contemporary Objects,” Art Jewelry Forum News; Spring

2003 “Enamel: A Contemporary Perspective,” Exhibition in Print: Metalsmith Magazine, Co-curated with Gretchen Goss

2002 Studio Visit: Kiff Slemmons. Metalsmith: Summer 2002 Vol. 22-#3 p.45

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Nathalie Graham, Get Trashed. 2025 the Stranger: The Climate Issue. Seattle, WA. https://www.thestranger.com/climate-issue 2025/2025/04/08/80003688/get-trashed

Ashley Stull Meyers, The Art of Inequality. 2020 Art Preview: Journal of Alta California, San Francisco, CA Jan. 2020 https://altaonline.com/art-2020-preview/

Jasmyne Keimig, Art in the Age of Single-Use Plastic. The Stranger. Dec. 4, 2019 https:www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2019/12/04/42157070/art-in-the-age-of-single-use-plastic

Sumeya Block, Olivia Sun, Hidden in Plain Sight: Magnifying What Is Already There. TeenTix. Dec.3, 2019 https://www.teentix.org/blog/hidden-in-plain-sight-magnifying-what-is-already-there

Exhibition Casey Arguelles Gregory, Maria Phillips and Robert Williams at BAM. October 11th, 2019 https://seattleeye.art/2019/10/11/maria-phillips-and-robert-williams-bam/

Rebecca Scheer, Beyond the Body: Northwest Jewelers at Play, Metalsmith Vol. 26, No. 2, 2006

Matthew Kangas, Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips: Shift. Metalsmith. Vol. 25, No. 5, 2005, pg.59

Christine Tate, Current Directions: Studio Art Jewelry. Metalsmith, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2004, pg. 53

Kathleen Browne, Inventing Contemporary Ornament. Metalsmith, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2003, pg.46

R. Bella Rabinovitch, Materials and Color. Metalsmith, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2003, pg.46

Alan Dubois, Metal Under Glass. American Craft, August/September 2002 pg. 52 - 55

Dorothy Spencer, Found Object Art and Artists. 2002 p. 178 - 180

Glen Brown, An Anti-classical Strategy. Ornament. Vol. 25, No.1 Autumn 2001 p.34

Frank Lewis, Observations. Metalsmith. Spring 1999 p.38

Eric Fredricksen, Salt, Pods, Boards. The Stranger, Seattle, Washington December 11, 1998

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C. 

Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, WA

Rotassa Foundation, San Francisco, CA

John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI Kohler Company. Sheboygan, WI

Sharon Campbell, CONSERVATOIRE, Seattle, WA 

Seymour Rabinovitch, Tart Slice. Seattle, WA