Jim Phalen

Jim Phalen was born in Phoenix, AZ in 1957 and showed an interest in art at an early age. Upon graduating high school, he traveled to Europe to explore and see the great museums. Jim received his BA from the San Francisco Art Institute, awarded the Painting Prize upon graduation, and earned his MA and MFA at the University of New Mexico. He then moved to NYC where he lived for 5 years, exhibiting and teaching at such institutions as Bowdoin College, Maine and SUNY Buffalo, NY. 

 

Jim now resides in Washington. He has taught locally with the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, University of Puget Sound, and Gage Academy of Art. He has been awarded a Pollock/Krasner Grant from Artist Trust and a solo show at the Frye Museum. He shows nationally, awarded an artist residency at the Bellycastle Arts Foundation in Mayo, Ireland and most recently a two-month artist residency at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He was invited back for 2025.