Phillip Stearns

He/Him

Phillip David Stearns is a Denver based artist whose practice deals with themes that include the impacts of contemporary information systems, electronics and communications technology, emerging materials and hybrid processes.

Through playful experimentation, deconstruction, and reconfiguration, Phillip engages these themes to reveal the obscured or invisible, and give form to the intangible. He approaches technology as a critical medium, positioning it in a way that is self-reflexive and seeks out the sublime in the mundane. 

Phillip is a Greene Fellowship recipient for 2024. His projects have been featured in WIRED, The Huffington Post, VICE Motherboard, The Creators Project, Hyperallergic, and FRAME. His work has been exhibited internationally by institutions including the Zhongzhou Art Museum, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Park Avenue Armory, ELEKTRA-BIAN, Tate Britain, Transmediale, Anyang Public Art Project, Festival de Arte Digital (FAD), FILE, and Transitio MX. 

Phillip currently teaches as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices program, and has previously taught physical computing at Parsons, creative coding at NYU, design at NYIT, and a seminar on the digital dark age at Hochschule Düsseldorf. He holds an MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts and a BS in music from the University of Colorado in Denver. 

Phillip Stearns founded GlitchTextiles, a textile design studio dedicated to exploring the intersections of digital art and jacquard weaving, in 2012. Pickl.art is his latest project, a weave on demand platform that allows anyone to create their own custom woven products.