Draft:Phillip Pyle II

Phillip Pyle, II is a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer based in Houston, Texas. His primary interests are race, humor, advertising, sports, and popular culture. His art has been covered by CNN,Texas Monthly, the Houston Chronicle, Art in America, and the Houston Press. His works have been exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, University Museum at Texas Southern University, The Museum of African American Culture, Project Row Houses, Art League Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum, and the FotoFest Biennial.

Career
In 2013, Phillip Pyle II and Robert Hodge created "Beauty Box," a social sculpture. They used furniture from thrift stores to recreate "a living room more or less in the image of their own grandparents' homes." Pyle "wanted people to consider their own lives, their own history, their own grandmother's keen decorating sense as worthy of being declared art." In 2014, they created an exhibition titled "The Black Guys" at the Art League, an homage to the Art Guys. In 2015, Pyle's exhibition, "Black Panther Party Power" appeared at Fresh Arts, where he cast prominent members of the Black Panther Party as superheroes. In 2021, Pyle's Broken Obelisk Elbows appeared at the 2021 Texas Biennial. According to Texas Monthly, Broken Obelisk Elbows, "a satirical proposal for a public art intervention," was "the key to the entire show." The work provided "an ironic, satirical commentary on who gets to do public monuments." In 2024, his series "Forgotten Struggle," which featured photographs of the Civil Rights Movement edited so that the protestors are carrying blank signs, appeared at the FotoFest Biennial.