Philip Carpenter

PHILIP CARPENTER has made art and exhibited in Atlanta since 1978. He received a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1989 and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2001. Notable exhibitions include: 1994 Atlanta Biennial: Nexus Contemporary Art Center; "Revival of the Figure": City Gallery East 1995; "Personal Circumstances": Spruill Gallery in 2000; "Transitions": MOCA GA 2002; "Work and Play": Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport 2005; "Primary Color": Marcia Wood Gallery 2005; "Manipulating the Commonplace": Swan Coach House Gallery 2007; Color Pencil Society of America Exhibition 2009 and 2015; "Play": Spruill 2009; "The Painted Photograph": Southwest Arts Center 2011;
"40 over 40": EBD4 2017. His work was exhibited in "Georgia Artists choose Georgia Artists" at MOCA GA and "Drawing Inside the Perimeter" at the High Museum of Art and in UNCA's "Drawing Discourse" 2019, 2020 2021and 2023. Most recently "Whimsey and Wander": Kai Lin Gallery 2023. His work was included in the 2004 edition of "New American Paintings". His work is in private and public collections including the High Museum, MOCA GA, The Lagrange Museum, The Lamar Dodd Art Center, Lagrange College and Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.