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Phoebe-Agnès Sinclair is a painter and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, embodiment, and the sacred within the visible world. Shaped by atelier training, time spent living in a French monastic community, and an upbringing in rural Tennessee, her practice brings classical painting techniques into dialogue with photography, transparency, and installation. She holds degrees in Art and Philosophy and is currently an MFA candidate in Painting at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.

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My work investigates moments when ordinary perception becomes strange: when light dissolves a body, water distorts a familiar form, or an image shifts between presence and disappearance. Through oil painting and photographic processes on transparent surfaces, I use light, reflection, and material instability to explore the porous boundaries between body and environment, image and object, the physical and the immaterial.

Underlying this practice is an interest in the sacred as something encountered within, rather than apart from, the material world. I am drawn to moments of perceptual uncertainty in which the familiar becomes briefly mysterious or awe-inspiring. Rather than representing transcendence directly, I seek it through heightened attention to ordinary phenomena—asking what might become visible when we look closely and linger in places of mystery.

Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION
2024–Present MFA Candidate, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2022 BA in Art and Philosophy, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2021 Summer Undergraduate Residency Program, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Living Light, Religious Studies Art Gallery, Peabody Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (forthcoming)
2026 Saudade, Lounge Gallery, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA (forthcoming)
2026 Ekstasis, Plaza Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2022 In the Light of Loss, Carlos Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2021 Star and Flower, Stirlings Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2020 Tout ce que J’ai Vu, French House Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2018 Selected Works, Stirlings Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2026 Mostra, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2025 Melt, Hambidge Hive, Atlanta Art Week, Atlanta, GA
2025 Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2024 Holding Shadows, Exum Gallery, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, TN
2022 Anamnesis, University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2022 Final Exhibition, Mudhouse Residency, Crete, Greece
2021 Summer Undergraduate Residency Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2019 Juried Members Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Elevate, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Congressional Art Competition, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC


AWARDS & HONORS
2026 Vince Dooley Scholarship for the Arts
2026 Rachel Sharp DeCosimo Art Scholarship
2025 Judy Voss Jones Cortona Scholarship
2025 Foundation Incentive Cortona Scholarship
2024 Boynes Artist Award, Monthly Award
2023 Curator’s Choice Award, Gallery Omata
2022 Phi Beta Kappa
2022 Hugh Harris Caldwell Jr. Award for Excellence in Philosophy
2022 John McCrady Memorial Award for Excellence in Art
2021 Omicron Delta Kappa
2021 Full Merit Scholarship, New York Academy of Art Summer Undergraduate Residency Program
2019 Best in Show Runner-Up, AVA Gallery Juried Members Exhibition
2018 Arts Fellowship, University of the South
2018 Fletcher-Bright Award for the Arts, Girls Preparatory School
2016 Full Merit Scholarship, Townsend Atelier

 
RESIDENCIES & ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2025 Cortona Study Abroad Program, University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy
2024 Interiors Workshop, Carlos San Millán, Chattanooga, TN
2022 Figure Painting Workshop, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2022 Mudhouse Residency, Crete, Greece
2021 Summer Undergraduate Residency Program, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2020 Multiple Figures Composition Course, Zoey Frank, Online
2019 Figures and Florals, Mia Bergeron, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
2017 Painting the Still Life, Timur Akhriev, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
2017–2019 Oil Painting I & II, Mia Bergeron, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025-2026 Instructor, Introduction to Drawing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2023 Instructor, Beginning Acrylic Painting, Studio 550, Manchester, NH
2023 Instructor, Beginning Oil Painting, Studio 550, Manchester, NH
2023 Instructor, Introduction to Drawing, Studio 550, Manchester, NH


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

2025 "Residue," MFA Exhibition Online University of Montana

2024 “Artist Phoebe-Agnès Mills,” interview, Boynes Artist Award
2024 “Curator’s Choice Award,” Gallery Omata
2022 The Christmas Tree Lighting, promotional video, University of the South
2021 Cover Artist, Mountain Goat Journal
2021 Eight portraits, Sewanee Spectre
2018 “Artist of the Week,” Sewanee Purple
2018 “GPS graduate’s oil painting hangs in the U.S. Capitol,” Chattanooga Times Free Press

©2018 by Phoebe-Agnès Sinclair

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