Peter Phillips
Biography
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1939: Born in Birmingham on May 21st.
1953-55: Attended Moseley Road Secondary School of Art, Birmingham.
1955-59: Went to Birmingham College of Art: 2 years Intermediate and 2 years N.D.D. (special level course); studied under Gilbert Mason and Fleetwood-Walker.
1959: Summer trip to Paris and to Italy on a scholarship awarded by Birmingham College of Art.
1959-62: Attended the Royal College of Art: his fellow students included David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield; transferred from Painting School to Television School in the autumn of 1961 but was granted Diploma in Painting in June 1962.
1962-63: Taught at the Conventry College of Art and Birmingham College of Art.
1964: Married Dinah Donald. Designed the entrance hall and large machine for Shakespeare exhibition, for the 400 Centenial exhibition in Stratford-upon-Avon. Awarded Harkness Fellowship for travel to the United States.
1964-66: Lived in New York, travelled around North America by car with Allen Jones in 1965.
1965-66: Formed Hybrid Enterprises with Gerald Lang.
1966: Returned to Europe. Daughter, Tiffany, was born in London.
1967: Divorced wife Dinah.
1968-69: Guest Professor, Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg.
1970: Married Marion-Claude Xylander. Frequent trips throughout the 1970s to Africa, the Far East, and the United States.
1972: Retrospective exhibition at the Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster.
1976: First one-man show of paintings in England held at the Waddington Galleries, London.
1981: Lived in Zurich. Daughter, Zoe Lana, was born in Zurich. Visit to Australia.
1982-83: Retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Exhibition travelled to Museum of Modern Art, Oxfard; the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh; Southampton Art Gallery; and Barbican Art Galery, London.
1983-1986: Frequent trips around Europe especially Mallorca, Spain.
1986: Bought land in Mallorca and began designing and building a finca and with a unique and breathtaking garden.
1987: Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich.
1989-93: Exhibits in a variety of galleries around Spain including Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid and Mallorca.
1992-95: Visits to Canada and US for exhibitions in cities including Montreal, Boston, Houston and New York.
1995: Works with Bruce R. Lewin Gallery in New York.
1996: Exhibitions in Mallorca at the Fundacio Miro and Casal Solleric.
1998: ”Freedom of Choices” exhibition in London with Thomas Gibson Gallery.
1996-00: Exhibitions in Valencia with Galeria Punto and in Mallorca with the Centre de Cultura of Sa Nostra. House in Mallorca featured in various magazines for unique design and extraordinary garden.
2002: Retrospective at Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy.
2003: Claude-Marion Phillips paases away on January 30th of Cancer.
2004: Exhibition dedicated to wife, Claude, at Whitford Fine Art; London. “Pop Art UK” group exhibition Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy. Frequent trips to Miami and New York. Spends winter in Austria.
2005: “Metamorphosis” exhibition at Goulanderis Foundation; Andros, Greece. “British Pop” group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Spain. Traveled to Mexico, Costa Rica and Belize.
2007: Is featured in two documentaries in New Zealand and Israel.
2008: Exhibits with Proarta in Zurich, Switzerland.
2009: Is commissioned to create a painting for the 2010 World Cup.
2010 – 2011: Gallery exhibitions at Galerie Jemileh Weber, Zurich and Galerie Proarta, Zurich. Work exhibited at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
2012: Peter purchased land and began constructing a residence in Costa Rica. Gallery exhibitions at Whitford Fine Art, London and Galerie Proarta, Zurich. Also exhibited at the Museum der bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Germany, Ulster Museum in Belfast, Ireland.
2013: Work is shown at Christie’s “When Britain Went Pop, British Pop Art: The Early Years” and Sotheby’s “The New Situation” both in London. Works are also exhibited in Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, and Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon.
2014: Peter is elected Honorary Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts. His work is shown at the Tate Modern and Barbican Centre in London, Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and featured in China’s Vogue Magazine. He continues to travel and work between Central America, Europe, and Australia.
2015: Peter has a one man show at Galerie Proarta in Zurich and is also shown at the Helmhaus in Zurich. His works are included in the ‘Pop to Popism’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Whales.
2016: Sponsored by the National Gallery in Canberra, Peter is awarded a ‘Distinguished Talent Visa’ to permanently reside in Australia. He has a solo exhibition in Sheffield, England.
2017: Peter and his family relocate to the Noosa Hinterland, found in the sunshine coast of Australia. Peter starts work on his new studio and art gallery. His work is shown in exhibitions in Japan, England and the USA.
2018 – Present: Peter’s new art studio and gallery is completed and the doors open for private viewings. The British Council of Russia feature Peter’s work on their website. Peter continues to show in Zurich, London and the USA.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
The Bernardo Museum, Lisbon
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
British Council, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Duke University, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Gallery Oldham, Oldham UK
Government Art Collection, London
Harvard University, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum, Providence RI
Royal College of Art, London
The Ruth Borchard Collection, London
Tate Modern, London
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Whitworth, Manchester
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Peter Phillisp & Gerald Laing, Hybrid 2.0, Levy Gorvy, London
2019 Peter Phillips Not so Random Illusion, 99 Mary Street Gallery, Sheffield
2016 Peter Phillips Works on Paper, 99 Mary Street Gallery, Sheffield
2014 Peter Phillips, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
2012 Art–o-Matic: Pop, Whitford Fine Art, London
2011 Peter Phillips / Stephen Buckley, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
Peter Phillips, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich
2008 Peter Phillips, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
2007 Pop, Pin-Ups & Mosaics, Whitford Fine Art, London
2004 Exhibition dedicated to wife, Marion-Claude Phillips, Whitford Fine Art, London
Peter Phillips: POP 1959-1976, Whitford Fine Art, London
2002 Peter Phillips, Opere 1961 – 2001 Galleria Civica, Modena
2000 Peter Phillips, Private Collection (Graphics 1965-2000), Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca
1999 Peter Phillips, Galeria Punto, Valencia
1998 Peter Phillips – Freedom of Choices, Thomas Gibson Gallery, London
Peter Phillips – Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca
1997 Peter Phillips Retrospective, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
1996 Fundacio Pilar i Juan Miro, Palma de Mallorca
1995 Gallery Bruce R. Lewin, New York
1993 Peter Phillips – Joan Guaita Art, Palma de Mallorca
1992 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
1991 Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
1990 Galeria Punto, FIAC, Valencia
1989 Galeria Manola Vilches, Marbella
Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona
1987 Peter Phillips, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
1983 RetroVISION, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Peter Phillips, Lang Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1982 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Southhampton Art Gallery, Southhampton
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Galerie Ziegler, Zurich
1976 Waddington Galleries, London
Tate Gallery, London
1974 Galleria Plura, Milano
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1971 Retrospective, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster
Studio d’Arte Condotti, Rome
Galleria Vinciana, Milan
Galerie Dorothea Leonhart, Munich
1970 Galleria Milano, Milan
1969 Studio d’Arte, Condotti, Rome
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Prints Exhibition, Alecto Gallery
Galleria Del Leone, Venice
1968 Prints Exhibition, Alecto Gallery, London
Galleria Del Leone, Venice
Kornblee Gallery, New York
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne
1967 Peter Phillips, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1966 Hybrid, with Gerald Laing, Kornblee Gallery, New York
1965 Peter Phillips, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2018 Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Portraits and States. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through the collection of NMAO, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) Japan
2017 P is for Pop, The University of Kent, Kent
The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 Pop Art Heroes, Whitford Fine Art, London
2015 Das Dreieck Der Liebe, Helmhaus, Zurich
Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 The BP Spotlights Series, Tate Modern, London
British Pop Prints, Payne Hurd Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Pop Art Myths, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Pop Art Design, Barbican Centre Art Gallery, London
2013 When Britain went Pop! British Pop Art: The Early Years, Christie’s
Mayfair, London
Under the Sign of Amadeo, a Century or Art, the Centro de Art
Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkain, Lisbon
The New Situation; Art in London in the Sixties, Sotheby’s, London
2012 Leben Mit Pop!, Museum der bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Leipzig
The Bellevue Bridge – Collages and Works on Paper, Galerie
Roemerapotheke, Zurich
My Generation: Art of the 60’s and Early 70’s, Ulster Museum,
Belfast
Optical Noise, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode
Island
The Best of Proarta Collection, Galerie Proarta, Zurich,
2011 Optical Effects: 1970s Printed Textiles, The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, Minneapolis
“S.U.B.H.A.S.T.A. Artistes en el stallers de Miro”, Fundacio Pilar
Joan Miro a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca
Vibrations, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
2010 Highlights of Proarta, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
Mutant Pop, Loyal, Malmo (Sweden)
Press Art, Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der
Moderne, Salzburg
Masterpiece, Offer Waterman & Co, London, United Kingdom
2009 Joan Miro’s printmaking workshops. Editions and Projects of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
A Hartung a Warhol, Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia
2008 Crazy Boys, Palazzo Primavera, Terni
Europop, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Modern Prints – Klassiche Moderne bis Pop Art,Galerie Proarta, Zurich
Tom Wesselmann and the 11 Pop Artists Vol 1., Burkhard Fikelmann Com, Dusseldorf
2007 Pop Art! 1956 – 1968, Zuderie del Quiranale, Rome
Geiger meets colleagues, Galerie Geiger, Konstanz
2006 Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Art & the 60s from Tate Britain, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2005 Metamorphosis, Goulanderis Foundation, Athens
Fantasia Pop, Il Narciso Galleria d’arte contemoranea, Rome
British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao
2004 Pop Art UK, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
Roma, London, Paris, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence
2003 The Pop Art Show, Burkhard Elkelmann Com, Dusseldorf
Verspielt / Playing, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
2002 Zinnebeeldig. 7 symbolen in cultureel erfgoed en hedendaagse
kunst: een confontatie?, Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en
Cultuur, Gent
2001 Les Annees Pop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Pop Art. US/UK Connections 1956-1966, The Menil Collection, Houston
Great Britain – The 1960s, Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York
POP ART – Andy Warhol – works on paper, Kunsthandel
Wolfgang Werner, Berlin
1997 Joan Guaita Art, ARCO, Madrid
The Pop ’60′s Transatlantic Crossing, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Pop Art, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Lisbon
Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum Modern Art, Lisbon
1996 Joan Guaita Art, ARCO, Madrid
Joan Guaita Col-leccio, Havana
Grosse Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich
1995 The Pop Image. Prints and Multiples, Marlborough Graphics, New York
Elvis + Marilyn; 2x immortal, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, followed in Houston, Charlotte, Cleveland, New York, Tulsa, Ohio, Nashville, San Jose, Honolulu
1994 Out of Print, Musee du Dessin et de l’Estampe, Gravelines
1993 The Sixties Art Scene, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1992 Galeria Afinsa-Almirante, Madrid
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
Pop Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
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, Palma de Mallorca
1988 Painters, Royal College of Art, London
Col-leccio Cryns, la Llonja, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
Basel Art Fair, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Basel
1987 Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama
Royal College of Art, London
Basel Art Fair, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Basel
Funabashi Seibu, Funabashi Museum of Art, Japan
Pop Art USA-UK, Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo and Daimaress Museum, Osaka
1986 Capriccio, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Semiha Huber, Eric Franck and Hans Mayer Galleries, Basel Art Fair, Basel
1985 Pop Art 1955-70, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art
Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
1983 Gloria Laura Gallery, Miami
1981 Avantgarden Retrospektiv: Kunst nach 1945, Wesfalischer Kunstverein, Munster,
1979 Kelpra Studio: Artists’ Prints 1961-1980, Tate Gallery, London
Photography in Printmaking, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
British Drawingssince 1945, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchestar
Sixth British International Print Biennial, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Images of Ourselves, Tate Gallery, London
1977 International Biennial of Graphic Art, Yugoslavia
Malerei und Photographie in Dialog, Kunsthaus, Zurich
British Painting in the ’60′s, Dundee Museum and Art Gallery
British Painting in the ’60′s, Tate Gallery, London
Paris Biennale Anthologie 1959-67, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy, London
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Fifth British International Print Biennial, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
1976 Pop Art in England: Beginning of a New Figuration 1947-63, Kunstverein, Hamburg
1975 Galleria la Chiocciola, Padua
Galleria L’Imponta, Napoli
1974 British Painting ’74, Hayward Gallery, London
Graveurs anglais contemporains, Musee d’Art d’Histoire des
Estampes, Geneve
1971 Basel Art Fair, Galerie Bischofberger, Basel
Accouragge, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Around the Automobile, Hofstra University, Hamstead, New York,
Critic’s Choice, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1970 Art Lending Service, Museum or Modern Art, New York
Internationale Triennale fur Farbige Druckgraphik, Grenchen
L’Estampe en Suisse, Musee des Arts Decoratifs de la Ville de
Lausanne
Dritte Internationale der Zeichnung, Darmstadt
The Spirit of Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1969 Recent Prints by Some British Painters and Sculptors, National
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Painting and Sculpture Today, Heron Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Information, Kunsthalle, Basel e Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London
1968 British Artists: 6 Painters, 6 Sculptores, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Collagen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich
Grabados de artistas britanicos nuevas tendencias, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Painted in Britain, Macy’s, New York, New York U.S.A. (organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom)
Junge Generation Grossbritannien, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin
The Obsessive Image, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1967 Recent British Painting – The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Tate Gallery, London
Galleria De’Foscherari, Bologna
Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
Contemporary British Painting, Wilmington
British Drawings: The New Generation, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Junge EnglischeKunst, Kunsthalle, Bern
Le visage de l’homme dans l’art contemporain, Musee Rath, Geneve
Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Pop Prints, Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Englische Kunst, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1966 Pop and Op, The American Federation of Arts, New York
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg
Galerie M.E. Thelan, Essen
Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1966, Gallery of the National College of Arts, Dublin
A New Look in Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Artists for Core, Grippi and Waddell Gallery, New York
British Painting, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
The Other Tradition, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Recent Paitings, Drawings and Sculpture 1958-1966 by the Harkness Fellows, The Leicester Galleries, London
Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York
11 Pop Artists: The New Image, Galerie Friederich & Dahlem, Munich
1965 ICA Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Peter Stuyvesant – A Collection in the Making, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Op and Pop, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
La Figuration narrative dans l’art contemporain, Galerie Creuze, Paris
Jeune peinture anglaise: Pop-Art, Op-Art et autre tendances,Galerie Motte, Geneve
Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme etc, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1964 Neue Realisten & Pop Art, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
Figuratie/Defiguratie De Menselijke Figur Sedert Picasso, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent
Rule Briannia, Feigen/Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Premio Marzotto, Roma, Baden-Baden, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, London
Nieuwe Realisten, Gemeentemuseum, den Haag
Pick of the Pops, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Pop etc, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna
The New Image, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Britische Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Munich
The New Generation: 1964, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Colour, Form and Texture, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
British Paintings from the Paris Biennale 1963, Royal College of Art, London
Troisieme Biennale des Jeunes, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1963 British Painting in the Sixties, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Pop Art, Midland GroupGallery, Nottingham
Toward Art? Arts Council of Great Britain, London
1962 One Year of British Art selected by Edward Lucie-Smith, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
British Art Today, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
British Art Today, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas
1962 British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Towards Art? An exhibition showing the contribution which the College made to the Fine Arts 1952-62, Royal College of Art, London
International Exhibition of the New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Four Young Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
British Painting, American Embassy, London
British Painting and Sculpture Today and Yesterday, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Image in Progress, Grabowski Gallery, London
Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
1961 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
1960 Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
1958 Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London