Richard Phillips (b. 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) lives and works in New York. His painting, inspired by Pop Art, deals with celebrities and other commodities that can iconically stand in for our contemporary desires.

Richard Phillips has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He is represented in public and private collections such as the

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Denver Museum, Colorado; the Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth, Texas; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; UBS Paine Webber Art
Collection, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Netherlands; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Education
1984 BFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
1986 MFA in Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.

Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels.
2015 ‘Richard Phillips: Conversations’ Matthew NYC, New York, NY.
‘Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2014 ‘Richard Phillips. Max Hetlzer Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
‘Richard Phillips: Negation of the Universe’. Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX.
2012 ‘Richard Phillips: Lindsay Lohan’. The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia.
‘Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY.
2011 ‘Richard Phillips: Most Wanted.’ White Cube, London, England.
2010 ‘Museum of Prints and Drawings: Between Thought and Action’. White Cube, London, England.
2009 ‘Richard Phillips: New Museum’. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
2007 ‘Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2006 ‘Richard Phillips: Early Works on Paper’. Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2005 ‘Richard Phillips: Michael Fried’. White Cube, London, England.
‘Law, Sex & Christian Society. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 ‘Richard Phillips: Paintings and Drawings’. Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
2003 ‘Richard Phillips: New Paintings’. Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2001 ‘America’. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2000 Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.
1999 Johnen & Schöttle Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Rudiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich, Germany.
1998 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England.
1997 ‘Richard Phillips, Paintings’. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
‘Richard Phillips: New Paintings’. Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1996 ‘Richard Phillips: Recent Paintings.’ Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1995 ‘Knoxville Paintings. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1994 ‘White Columns’, New York, NY.