Phyllis Galembo

Phyllis Galembo (born 1952) is an American photographer living in New York City.

She has published seven monographs, including, Sodo (2021), Mexico: Masks, Rituals (2019), Maske (2016), Dressed for thrills: 100 years of Halloween costumes & masquerade (2002), Divine inspiration: from Benin to Bahia (1993), Vodou: visions and voices of Haiti (1998), and Pale Pink (1983).

Galembo was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2014, as well as a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2016, 2010, and 1996, and received a Senior Fulbright Research Award in 1993–94.

Education
She earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977.

Publications

 * Pale pink (1983)
 * Aso-ebi, Cloth of the Family (1997), sponsored by New York Council for the Arts
 * Divine inspiration: from Benin to Bahia (1993, 1998)
 * Dressed for thrills: 100 years of Halloween costumes & masquerade (2002)
 * Vodou: visions and voices of Haiti (2005)
 * Maske (2010,  2016)
 * Phyllis Galembo: Mexico, Masks and Rituals (2019)
 * Sodo, Datz (2021)

Awards

 * 2014: Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
 * 1996, 2010, 2016: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow
 * 1993–94: Senior Fulbright Research Award

Solo exhibitions

 * 1993: Divine Inspiration: From Benin To Bahia, Photographs By Phyllis Galembo, International Center of Photography. Work illustrating the religious traditions of Nigeria and the spiritual practices of Brazil introduced from Africa via the slave trade.
 * 1998: Kings, Chiefs, and Women of Power: Images from Nigeria, American Museum of Natural History
 * 2005: Sepia International
 * 2007: West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, curated by Ian Berry
 * Phyllis Galembo: Maske was exhibited at Steven Kasher Gallery in N.Y.C. in 2011

Group exhibitions or during festivals

 * 2013: The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
 * 2020 Galembo's work was exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in a show entitled Phyllis Galembo: Maske.

Collections
Galembo's works is held in the following permanent collections:
 * Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Wisconsin Union Art Collection