
1962 Born, Marblehead, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York
Education
1984 BFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art
1986 MFA in Painting, Yale University School of Art
Honors and Awards
1986 J. Richardson Dilworth Materials Grant, Yale University School of Art
1985 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University School of Art
1984 The Pace Gallery Award, Massachusetts College of Art
The Lawrence Kupferman Award, Massachusetts College of Art
1983 Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship, Yale/Norfolk
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Richard Phillips, Gagosian, Los Angeles
2006 Early Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2005 Michael Fried White Cube, London
Law, Sex & Christian Society, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2004 Richard Phillips Paintings and Drawings, Le Consortium, Dijon
2003 Richard Phillips: Neue Bilder, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2002 Birds of Britain, White Cube, London
Kunstverein Hamburg
2001 America, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2000 Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
1999 Johnen & Schottle, Cologne and Munich
1998 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Stephen Friedman, London
1997 Richard Phillips, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Richard Phillips, New Paintings, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas
1996 Richard Phillips, Recent Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1995 Knoxville Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1994 White Columns, New York (White Room)
1992 Elizabeth Koury, New York (Project Room)
1990 Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
1989 Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
1988 New Objects, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Timer.01: Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2004 Troy Brauntuch, Keith Edmier, Richard Phillips, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Power, Lies, Corruption, Roth Horrowitz Gallery, New York
2003 Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York
No Ghost Just a Shell: The AnnLee Project, Vanabbemusuem, Eindhoven
Coollustre, Collection Lambert , Avignon
Breathing the Water, Hauser Wirth and Pressenhuber, Zurich
Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2002 No Ghost, Just a Shell, Kunsthalle Zürich
Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2001 The Contemporary Face: From Picasso to Alex Katz, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2000 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Girlfriend, Galerie fur Zeitgenossishe, Leipzig
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Greater New York, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism. Paintings from 1950 to the Present, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York. Curated by Doug Wada.
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Summer Exhibition, New York
Recent Gifts from Eileen & Peter Norton, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina
1999 Das XX Century, INIT Kunsthalle Berlin. Curated by Alexander Schroeder and Christian Nagel.
New York-London, Tache-Levy, Brussels
Blueprint, Gallery Spark, New York. Curated by Sebastiaan Bremer & Pieter Woudt
Painting Pictures, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside
art lovers, Tracey, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curated by Marcia Fortes.
1998 People, Places and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Some Women/Pretty Girls, The Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Curated
by W. Rod Faulds
Hanging, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo. Curated by Marcia Fortes
1997 Painting Group Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
The Prophecy of Pop, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Hospital, Max Hetzler, Berlin
Richard Phillips, Paul Graham, Hillary Lloyd, Bronwyn Keenan, New York
Summer Show, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996 Painting Into Photography Photography Into Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Everything is Real, Jessica Fredericks Gallery
Sugar Mountain, White Columns, New York
Transfixed, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York
Artist in Residence, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee
1995 September Group, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Summer Group, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1994 David’s Friends, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Paint Royale, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Summer Group, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1993 5 Painters, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Summer Punch ’93, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Confessional, Elizabeth Koury, New York
Powers Benefit Auction, The Gallery Three Zero, New York
Animal Kingdom, Champion Paper Co., Fairfield
1992 Tattoo, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Daniel Levine, Charles Long, Richard Phillips, Jack Risley, Stephanie Theodore Gallery, New York
Ecstasy, Dooley Le Capellaine Gallery, New York
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1991 Not on Canvas, Asher Faure Gallery, New York
The Third Rail, John Post Lee Inc., New York. Curated by Karin Bravin.
Alix Pearlstein - Richard Philips, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Antwerp
Pleasure, Hallwalls of Contemporary Art, Buffalo. Curated by Steve Salzman.
1990 20th Anniversary Benefit Show, White Columns, New York
Signs of Support: Furniture Forms in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan
Home, Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Real Placebo, Bennett Siegel Gallery, New York
Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York. Curated by Richard Phillips
1989 Summer Show, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
Frames of Reference, The Gallery, New York
1988 Sculpture Show, White Columns, New York
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York
American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1987 New Work, New Talent, New Haven, The Harcus Gallery, Boston
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