PHILLIPS, PETER (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, 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. Before leaving for New York 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 Exhibitons
2008, Galerie Proarta, Switzerland.
2007, Pop, Pin-Ups & Mosaics, Whitford Fine Art, London.
2005, Goulanderis Foundation, Andros.
2004, Peter Phillips: POP 1959 - 1976, Whitford Fine Art, London.
2002, Galleria Civica, Modena (retrospective).
2000, Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra, Palma.
1999, Galeria Punto, Valencia.
1998, Thomas Gibson, London; Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca.
1997, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (retrospective).
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, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (retrospective, 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, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (retrospective).
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 (prints).
1967, Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich.
1966, Kornblee Gallery, New York (“Hybrid” with Gerald Laing).
1965, Kornblee Gallery, New York.