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Philip Thomas Waters
Above: “Repeat Offender (Suppressed Loathsome Self Portrait)”: injet print on mulberry paper, gin-cured, evaporated, distressed. (1976, 2025). Below: Self portrait + text from ChatGPT (prompt: ‘What's going on here?’)
Exhibited
- University of Minnesota West Bank Gallery, “Lies of Paper”, Honors Thesis Exhibition, 1976
- Hinterland, "Mona Lucero Closing Show", 2010
- Flash Gallery, "Bystander", 2011
- Center For Fine Art Photography, "Food", 2011
- Redline, "One Square Foot", 2012
- University of Minnesota Katherine E. Nash Gallery, "Winter Quarter in Mexico", 2013
- 40 West Arts, "Traveling Route 40", Month of Photography, 2013
- The Big Picture, Month of Photography, 2013
- Hinterland, “Seen | Unseen”, Month of Photography, 2013
- Redline, "One Square Foot”, 2013
- Center For Fine Art Photography, "Landscape", 2015
- The Big Picture, Month of Photography, 2015
- T Bell Gallery, “It's All Here In Black & White, Figuratively Speaking", 2015
- Hinterland, "What Has Never Been…Is (A Surrealism Manifesto)”, 2015
- Spark Gallery, “Focus”, 2015
- Colorado Photographic Arts Center, "Re-Context", 2016
- Center For The Arts, Evergreen, Annual Member's Show, 2017
- Redline, “One Square Foot”, 2019
- Redline, “One Square Foot”, 2024
- The Big Picture, Month of Photography, 2025
- Denver Arts Student’s League, “Food-tography”, 2025
- 40 West Arts, “The Art of Photography”, 2025
- Curtis Arts Center, The Urban Landscape, 2025
- Niza Knoll Gallery, “Photography Unbound”, 2025
- Valkarie Gallery, “Vantage Point”, 2025
- Auric Gallery, ”aMuse”, 2025
Educated
Orange Glen High School, Escondido, CA
A four year program with emphasis on art and commercial art.
Palomar Community College, San Marcos, CA
A two year program with emphasis on drawing, conceptual art and design.
University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Bachelor of Elective Studies, magna cum laude, with emphasis on printmaking, drawing, photography, conceptual art.
Winter Quarter in Mexico, Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico
A University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts extension program offering studies in drawing, painting, photography, ceramics and Spanish.
Worked
The Tides Wharf, Bodega Bay, CA
Fish mongering in Northern California.
The Mountain Messenger, Nevada City, CA
Designed the format & branding, built out the production department, art directed and was the primary photographer for the alternative weekly newspaper in Northern California.
Windsor Publications, Woodland Hills, CA
Designed and art directed casebound books on the history and commerce of large to medium metropolitan areas in the United States.
Winter Quarter in Mexico, Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography instructor for the University of Minnesota extension program.
Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Associate Art Director, page design, illustration & photography assignment for the monthly magazine of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times, Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Art Director for the newly-launched weekly feature magazine of the Los Angeles Times.
Phil Waters Design, Santa Monica, CA
Freelance graphic design, art direction, branding for a variety of corporate clients, publications and agencies.
Agency Without Walls, Santa Monica & San Clemente, CA
Two-person shop providing graphic design, branding, writing and production for a variety of corporate and educational clients.
Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar, TVTimes and the Times New Media Lab
Art Director for the weekly entertainment and television sections as platforms to introduce desktop publishing technologies; design director for the startup of the Times in-house multimedia lab.
Ingenius, Denver, CO
VP/Creative Director for product design, publication and design staff management for What On Earth, the daily interactive news and education title distributed online to elementary schools as a joint venture between Reuters NewMedia and TeleCommunication, Inc.
America Online, San Mateo, CA
Design Director and design staff management for the west coast campus of AOL specializing in co-branded alternative online productions; conceptualized and art directed AOL's transition from a closed propriety platform to the .html-based flagship website AOL.com.
America Online, Reston, VA
Creative direction for the AOL/TIme Warner integration involving various properties in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Mateo and more.
Philip Thomas Waters, Artist, Evergreen, CO
Print, narrative and conceptual art featuring photographic, illustration, writing and artificial intelligence skirmishes.
“Not having gone to photography school, I never learned the rules.” — Duane Michals
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