Philip Govedare has received numerous awards including an individual artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in painting in 1991, and a Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 1988. He has exhibited his work in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, San Jose, Houston, Seattle, and Rome, Italy. His solo exhibitions include the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Paul Cava Gallery where he was represented in Philadelphia, and Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. His numerous interdisciplinary collaborations include the American Association of Geographers, and his essay “Altered Landscapes” is in the book Geohumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place published in 2011. In addition to teaching at the University of Washington, he has taught at Tyler School of Art in both Philadelphia and Rome, Italy.

Govedare retired from the University of Washington in December 2022.