Phyllis Fife

Phyllis Fife (born 1948) is an American painter.

Fife was born near Dustin, Oklahoma, of Muscogee ancestry. She was first educated in a rural school before enrolling in the Institute for American Indian Arts from 1963 until 1966. She took instruction from Howard Warshaw at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and transferred to the University of Oklahoma in 1970, being awarded a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1973. She has taught at Northeastern Oklahoma State University and Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and her work has been exhibited both in her home state and elsewhere in the United States.