Jim Phalen

Jim Phalen earned a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and MFA at the University of New Mexico; upon graduation winning the Raymond Jonson Prize for excellence. Phalen has taught at Bowdoin College, NY State University Buffalo, the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Puget Sound. He has received a Pollock/Krasner Grant of $15,000. Phalen had a one-person exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. He has been awarded a Ballinglen Artist Residency in county Mayo, Ireland, and is represented by the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, CA and the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, TN. His work has been published in New American Painting and reviewed in the New York Times.