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Juror

Philip Sugden

Philip Sugden was born and raised in Swanage, Dorset, England. With his mother and brother, he traveled to America on Her Majesty's Ship, The Queen Elizabeth I in December, 1954.  He currently lives in Findlay, Ohio where he has a studio.

\Philip studied painting in Paris under French painter, Arnaud D'Hauterives (winner Grand Prix de Rome). Since graduation from the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1981, Sugden has made twelve journeys throughout the Himalaya and Tibet, including the Kingdom of Mustang and Ladakh. In May, 2007, he and writer, Carole Elchert were married by Lama Nawang Tenzin at Tengboche Monastery near Mt. Everest.

As the guest curator at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, Sugden organized a six-month series of exhibitions, opening with a solo show of Tibetan Locks and Keys, silk-screens by Robert Rauschenberg, celebrating the 1991 International Year of Tibet. In the summer of 1998 he was invited to include, in an exhibition at the Denis Bibro Gallery in New York City, one of his largest installation drawings.  The exhibit was sponsored by Artists for Tibet as part of "Art Against Chinese Human Right Abuses."

Philip's drawings have been published in an exquisite, full-color exhibition catalog entitled, Visions from the Fields of Merit; Drawings of Tibet and the Himalayas. The book includes a Forward written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Daniel Entin, Executive Director of the Roerich Museum, NYC.

Sugden’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo and 130 group shows internationally including galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington DC, Melbourne, and Kathmandu. He is currently a Professor of Studio Art and Gallery Director at Bluffton University.

In March 2019, Phil was  the first visual artist to be inducted onto the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts Wall of Fame.