Peter Phillips (British b. 1939)
Philips is one of the most impressive English artists of his generation, whose work ranges from oils on canvas to multi-image compositions with photo realist or collage elements with paint.
He studied first at Birmingham College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating in 1962 he began teaching at Coventry College of Art and Birmingham College of Art and later was guest professor at the Hohchule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg. He has exhibited widely: at the Young Contemporaries 1959-62; John Moors Exhibition, Liverpool; in San Francisco, Dallas and Santa Barbara; Sidney Janis Gallery in New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
His first one-man show was held at the Kornblee Gallery in New York in 1965. Phillips was the toughest of the English Pop artists who made reputation in the early 60s, and in many ways the least English, in the whimsical, literary sense. His commitment to Pop was most vividly confirmed by living in America since 1964 - 1966, where he developed even more ruthless variations on the imaginery and procedures he had proposed when a student at the RCA in the early 1960s. following his return to Europe, Phillips produced a series of precisely worked-out-drawings, the last completed in 1967 after his move to Zurich. During 1970 - 79 he travelled throughout the USA, Africa, the Far East and Australia.
Bibliography
E. CRISPOLTI. Peter Phillips, Works/Opere 1960 - 1974, Milan, 1977
Solo Exhibitions
2008, Peter Phillips, Galerie Proarta, Switzerland
2007, Pop, Pin-Ups & Mosaics, Whitford Fine Art, London
2005, Metamorphosis, Goulanderis Foundation, Andros
2004, Peter Phillips: POP 1959 - 1976, Whitford Fine Art, London
2002, Retrospective, Galleria Civica, Modena, Modena
2000, Peter Phillips. Private Collection (Obra Grafica 1965 - 2000), Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra, Palma
1999, Galeria Punto, Valencia
1998, Peter Phillips. Freedom of Choices, Thomas Gibson, London; Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca
1997, Peter Phillips 1962 - 1997, Retrospective, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
1996, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
1995, Gallery Bruce R. Lewin, New York
1993, Joan Guaita Art, Palma de Mallorca
1992, Galería Afinsa-Almirante, Madrid
1991, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
1990, Galería Punto, Valencia
1989, Galería Barcelona, Barcelona; Galería Manola Vilches, Marbella
1987, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
1982-3, Retrospective, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool travelling to: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Fruit Markey Gallery, Edinburgh, Southampton Art Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1982, Galerie Ziegler, Zürich
1976, Tate Gallery, London; Waddington Galleries, London
1975, Galleria l'Impronta, Naples; Galleria la Chiocciola, Padua
1974, Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich; Galleria Plura, Milan
1972, Retrospective, WestfKunstverein, Münster
1970, Galleria Milano, Milan
1971, Galerie Dorothea Leonhart, Münich; Galleria Vinciana, Milan; Studio d'Arte Condotti, Rome
1969, Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich; Studio d'Arte Condotti, Rome
1968, Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne; Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich; Kornblee Gallery, New York; Galleria Del Leone, Venice; Alecto Gallery, London
1967, Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich
1966, Kornblee Gallery, New York (Hybrid with Gerald Laing)
1965, Kornblee Gallery, New York
Recent Group Exhibitions
2005, British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Spain
2004, Pop Art UK, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
2001, Les Années Pop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Pop Art. US/UK Connections 1956-1966, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
1997, The Pop '60's Transatlantic Crossing, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa; Joan Guaita Art, ARCO, Madrid; Pop Art, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Lisboa; The Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Lisboa
1996, Joan Guaita Art, ARCO, Madrid; Joan Guaita Col-leccio, Havana, Cuba; Grosse Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munchen
1995, The Pop Image. Prints and Multiples, Marlborough Graphics, New York
1995-97, Elvis + Marilyn; 2x immortal, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 1995 (followed in Houston, Charlotte, Cleveland, new York, Tulsa, Ohio, Nashville, San Jose, Honolulu, 1995-1997).
1994, Out of Print, Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe, Gravelines
1993, The Sixties Art Scene, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1992, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich; Pop Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Pop Art, Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Pop Art, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid
1991, Pop Art Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Galeria Punto, FIAC, Paris; Galerie Punto, ARCO, Madrid; Pop Art Prints, Tate Gallery, London
1990, Galeria Punto, FIAC, Paris; Galerie Punto, ARCO, Madrid; Coleccion San Roman de Escalante, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander; 50 propostes pictoriques a Mallorca, Ajuntament de Calvia