Philip Ross is an artist, educator and curator working in the Bay Area of California. For the past decade Philip has been making research based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. Many of these artworks are literally grown into being over the course of several years. Developed in conjunction with institutions that work with biological entities. Philip’s living artworks integrate traditional manufacturing techniques with practices and technologies from disparate cultural fields. His sculptures are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic.
Mr. Ross has been an artist in residence at SymbioticA, The Headlands Center for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, and The Oxbow School. He has also served as a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, was the inaugural Porter Fellow at UC Santa Cruz, and is the Professor of Sculpture at the University of San Francisco. He currently is working on a series of videos about microscopy and designing a garden in Napa California.