Awards: Painting

  • NAACP Award of Excellence for outstanding commitment in advancing the culture and causes for communities of color; May 2018
  • Center for the Study of World Religions. Harvard University. Senior Fellow 1999-2000
  • W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. Harvard University. Resident Fellow.1999-2000
  • New England Foundation for the Arts. Visual arts grant 1996
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995
  • Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University, Visual Arts Fellow. 1992-93
Marilène Phipps is an artist of extraordinary talent. Of all the painters I taught in my entire career, she is the best.
Neil Welliver

Chairman Emeritus, Art Department, University of Pennsylvania