Phil Zimmermann, M.F.A.

Professor of Art+Design
Graphic Design Program
School of Art+Design

Office: Visual Arts Bldg., Rm. 2026
Tel.: (914) 251-6785
Fax: (914) 251-6793
Email: phil.zimmermann@purchase.edu

Phil Zimmermann, who has been creating artist books for more than 30 years, is also a publisher of artists’ books (Space Heater Editions).

“In addition to being a great vehicle for communicating directly to an audience, artists’ books have the wonderful advantage of being time-based like video and film. Static pictures on a wall seem an impoverished way of making an artistic statement after one works with sequence, rhythm, movement, translucency, narrative arc; the list goes on and on. I know I am biased: I have been in love with books ever since I was a small child, but the medium is so rich with possibilities that it is hard to go back to working any other way... ”
—Phil Zimmermann

Education
B.F.A., Cornell University
M.F.A., Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Buffalo

Selected Awards
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Artist residencies at Yaddo, Border Art, Light Work, and others

Selected Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
Bibliotèque Nationale
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Library of Congress
New York Public Library special collections
Yale and Harvard special collections