Brad Phillips
mail@bradphillips.ca
b. 1974 - toronto, canada
Solo Exhibitions2011 The Residence Gallery, Suicide Note Writer’s Block, London, UK
Monte Clark Gallery, Sex After Marriage, Toronto, ON
Monte Clark Gallery, Someone Write Me, Vancouver, BC
Galerie ZK, Seven Years in Vancouver, Berlin, Germany
CSA Space, My Swiss Gallery Closed, Vancouver, BC
2010 CSA Space, Collection of the Artist, Vancouver, BC
2009 LaMontagne Gallery, Journey into Whatever, Boston, MA
2008 Groeflin Maag Galerie, Sentimental Breakdown, Zurich, Switzerland
Monte Clark Gallery, No P.S.. Toronto
Monte Clark Gallery, No Comebacks, Vancouver
2007 Wallspace, Day by Day, New York, NY
Liste 07, The Young Art Fair, Knives & Flowers, Basel Switzerland
(under the auspices of Groeflin Maag Galerie)
Groeflin Maag Galerie, Young Marriage, Old Problems, and Vancouver Mushrooms, Basel, Switzerland
2006 CSA Space, Personal Work, Vancouver
2005 Wallspace Gallery, On Feeling Better , New York, NY
Groeflin Maag Galerie, 1996, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Silver Springs, Toronto
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver,
2002 Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto
Two Person Exhibitions
2007 Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, The Great Depression: Brad Phillips and Rasool Sarangi
2003 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (with Jedediah Caesar)
Selected Group Exhibitions2011 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
Capture, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto On
Le goût de la peinture, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal PQ (curated by Marie-Eve Beaupré and Julie Bélisle)
My Winnipeg, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Hunter and Cook Launch, Khyber ICA , Halifax , NS2010 Journey into Whatever, New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, NB
1st International Chilliwack Biennale, Chilliwack, BC
Triumphant Carrot - The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Cat.
NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, NY (curated by Keith Mayerson) Cat.
Restricted, Clark + Faria, Toronto, ON2009 Group Show, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid, 106 Green Street, New York, NY (curated by Ryan Steadman)
The Other Gallery for Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche, "Art moves", Toronto, ON
Assembly of Drawings, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Clark + Faria Presents, Clark + Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON
Guy Maddin’s Keyhole Project, The Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
Staff Picks, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
TV Books – Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, CA
2008 LOCAL, The Apartment at Filip Office, Vancouver, BC (curated by Lee Plested)
It Ain’t Fair, O.H.W.O.W. Gallery , Miami, FL (curated by Tim Barber)
Amber One Foot Below, Paul Petro Project Space, Toronto (curated by Jay Isaac)
Art on Paper 2008: 40th Anniversary Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Hungry Ghost, Paul Petro Project Space, Toronto (curated by Jay Isaac & Tony Romano)
News at 5ive, TIAF, Toronto (curated by Rick Rhodes)
Various Photographs, NY Photo Festival, curated by Tim Barber, NY
The Other Gallery presents Guy Maddin's Keyhole Project, University of Manitoba's ARCH 2 Gallery, Winnipeg
Like Watching a Train Wreck, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
DRAW, Stolenspace Gallery, London
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Paul Butler's Collage Party/The Keyhole Experiment, (under the auspices of Guy Maddin), 44 Princess, Winnipeg
The Big Gift: Recent Acquisitions from the Glenbow Museum, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
Collage Crimes: Carte Grise a Guy Maddin, Dazibao, Montreal, PQ2007 Paul Butler's Collage Party/The Keyhole Experiment, (under the auspices of Guy Maddin), Gimli, Manitoba
Raise High the Roofbeam, Rainbo Club, Chicago, (curated by Melanie Schiff and Kristen VanDeventer)
Paul Butler's Collage Party, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Launch of Port-De-Suisse, Villa Lautengarten, Basel, Switzerland (curated by Simon Baur)2006 On Line: Contemporary Drawing, The University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Slater Bradley)
Art Vs. Real Life, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York,NY
Tiny Vices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Tim Barber)
Another Other, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee Exhibition Department,
Jordonstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland
Darkness Ascends, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto2005 Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Holly Coulis)
Paul Butler's Collage Party, Antisocial, Vancouver
Toronto/Berlin Exchange, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin Germany
Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
Bucolica, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
The Terminal Show, the Drake Hotel, Toronto (organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art)2004 RBC New Canadian Painting Competition, Edmonton Art Gallery, Brunswick Museum
McMaster Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Kids of the Black Hole, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto
I, Assassin, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Slater Bradley)2003 Hooters, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto
In My Solitude, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto (curated by Wayne Baerwaldt)
Two Weeks In Autumn, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto
Fountain of Youth, TIAF, Toronto
When Darkness Falls, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, travelling to
Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Future Species, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY2002 Steve Canaday, Brad Phillips, Luigino Valentin, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York NY
The Catholic Show, Art System, Toronto
Don’t Fear the Reaper, Gallery 1313, Toronto (as Larry House with Jay Isaac)
Synthetic Psychosis, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
Mercer Living, Mercer Union, Toronto
Wreck Room, Art System, Toronto and Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver2001 Dark Movement, Art System, Toronto
Glo, Archive Gallery, Toronto
Grand Expectorant, West Wing Art Space, Toronto
Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful, Art System, Toronto
More than a Feeling, Gallery 1313, Toronto
Mercer Union: A Love Story, Mercer Union, Toronto2000 Glo, Archive Gallery, Toronto
1999 Solo Exhibition (A Group Show), 286 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
Open Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Galleries, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge1996 This is it: Taku Dazai, Alex Morrison, Brad Phillips, Nora Vaughan Gallery, Toronto
Curation
2009 Alex Morrison, CSA Space, Vancouver, BC
2005 My One And Only - Brad Phillips on Rasool Sarangi, Wallspace Gallery, NY NY (catalogue)
Art Fairs
2012 The London Art Fair
2011 Toronto International Art Fair
2010 The Armory Show, New York, NY
2009 NADA Fair, Miami
2008 NADA Fair, Miami
2007 The Armory Show, NY, LISTE, The Young Art Fair, Basel Switzerland, Scope NY, MACO, Mexico City
2006 Artissima - Turin, Italy, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, NADA Fair, Miami, Scope New York, MACO, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 The Armory Show, NY, Preview, Berlin, Toronto International Art Fair, Artissima, Turin, NADA Fair, Miami, Aqua Art, Miami
2004 Scope LA, Toronto International Art Fair, Artissima –Turin, Italy, NADA Fair, Miami
2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
2001 Art Sante Fe, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Publications
2011 The New Collectors Book, published by Basak Malone LLC, pg. 10 ISBN 9780984741311
The Life and Times of William Callahan published by 0-100, Italy
2010 Color 8.1, “Our Glass-Brad Phillips” Pg. 72-74, March
Pussy, The Aurel Schmidt Purple Book, a special edition for Purple Fashion Magazine #13
2009 Alex Morrison: Politics and Partnership, canadianart.ca, June 20
2008 Six Pages from TV Books, Published by TV Books and Gallery Space, Pg. 32-38
RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Ten Years, published by the Royal Bank of Canada, Pg. 64
Carte Blanche - V.2 – Painting, published by Magenta Foundation, Pg. 189, 321
Hope Against Reason – Brad Phillips, Monograph of paintings, with an introduction by Guy Maddin, 128 pages, edited by Tim Barber, published by TV Books, New York, NY
The Walrus, May 2008, pg. 80
Paul Butler's Collage Party, Catalogue published by MOCCA Toronto, and ACAD, Alberta
2007 Suicide Note Writer's Block - Drawings - edition of 100, 24 pages,
Cederteg Publishing, Stockholm, Sweden.
2006 Time Out Toronto, "Space Oddities" pg. 185
The Journal, Salon Section, curated by Tim Barber, Winter 2006, pg.53
Purpose Webmag Photographique, Portfolio, Dear Diary - Issue 2, Spring 2006
Doppelganger Magazine, Portfolio, Rasool Sarangi & Brad Phillips, Issue 6 June 2006
Toro Magazine, May 2006, pg. 62
2004 The Georgia Straight, “Painting for Dollars” Sept.30-Oct.7, pg. 49
Fashion Magazine, April 2004. pg. 141
New York Magazine, February 23, pg. 76
Vancouver Sun, “Cynical Suburbia” Jan.29-Feb.5, pg. C3
2003 Toro Magazine, spring/summer 2003, pg.54
The New York Times Magazine, February 9, pg. 72
2002 Drawings for Trucker magazine, Winter 2002.
Drawings for Trucker magazine, Fall 2002.
1997 Galerie Largeness, issue featuring work by Bradley Phillips, Sally McKay, and Michael
Amar. No. 19, June 3, 1998 (ISS # 1206-0097).
Selected Bibliography
Coline Milliard, Review, Brad Phillips, Suicide Note Writer’s Block, The Residence Gallery, London UK, Modern Painters, February 2012, Pg. 83
Melinda Battersby, "How to spot the next Damien Hirst" - The Independent, January 17, 2011
Beth Fox, Review, Brad Phillip's - Suicide Note Writer's Block, The Residence Gallery, London UK, Artists Insight, November 2011
Aaron Peck, Review, Brad Phillips, Somebody Write Me, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canadian Art Magazine, online, June 30, 2011
Robin Laurence, Review, Brad Phillips, Somebody Write Me, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, The Georgia Straight, May 19-26, 2011, Pg, 42
Nicki Bahrampour, Interview, Document Magazine, Weeklies, Online, April 1st, 2010
Cate McQuaid, Review, Brad Phillips, Journey into Whatever, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston Globe, June 3, 2009
Noah Becker, “Brad Phillips in conversation with Noah Becker” Whitehot Magazine, Dec. 2008
Jay Isaac, “Brad Phillips Interview” Hunter and Cook, Issue No. 01, 2008, Pg. 3-7
Selva Barni, “Fotografia/Melanie Schiff” Rodeo Magazine, Settembre, Issue No. 50, Pg. 85, 2008
Lee Henderson, “The Glue Boy – Paul Butler and the Art of Collage”, BorderCrossings Issue No. 107, 2008: Pg. 51
Christopher Brayshaw, Visual Art – “Exponential Future” Bordercrossings, Issue No 106, 2008: Pg. 105
Robert Enright, An ‘orgy of slicing and pasting’, Special to The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2008
Ray Michael Dault, Review, Brad Phillips, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, The Globe and Mail, April 5, 2008; R14
Guy Maddin, "Keyhole Collages" Bordercrossings, Issue No. 104, 2007 Pg. 58-67
Leanne Shapton, "The Modern Lovers - Ten contemporary artists who make images of their loved ones", The Believer, Nov/Dec 2007: Pg. 20
Lee Henderson, "A Tale of Two Painters: The Art of Brad Phillips and Michael Lewis" Bordercrossings, Issue No. 103, 2007: Pg. 102-111
Annette Hoffmann, Spezial "Brad Phillips: Ein Werk ausgewogener Bedingungen" Regioartline Kunstmagazin, No. 6, 7.2007: Pg. 24
Renate Durst "Wie Schnappschusse" Review, 'Young Marriage, Old Problems, Vancouver Mushrooms' Groeflin Maag Galerie,
Basel, Basler Zeitung, May 10, 2007 Pg. 25
Mark Laliberte, "An Interview with Paul Butler" Carousel 20, 2007, Pg. 15-17
Ashley Johnson, Review "Darkness Ascends" MOCCA, Canadian Art, 23, no 4 (Winter 2006): 82
Sarah Milroy, "Finding Lite in Darkness" Review, "Darkness Ascends". MOCCA, The Globe and Mail, July 7, 2006, R1
David Balzer, "Eye Candy" eye magazine, June 08, 2006 Pg. 47
David Jager, Review, "Darkness Ascends", MOCCA, NOW Magazine, June 8 - 14, 2006 Pg. 104
Keving Chong, "Painter's interest in bad things is turned inward" The Globe and Mail, Friday April 14, 2006, R6
Eva Scharrer, Review "Brad Phillips, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel" C Magazine (Summer 2005):43
Marianne Benz, Dustere Aussichten, beklemmende Bilder einer orientierunglosen Jugend des Kanadiers
Brad Phillips in der Galerie Groeflin Maag, Baz Kulturmagazin, Thursday February 17, 2005
Beverly Cramp, Galleries West, Spring 2005, 8-9.
David Balzer, eye magazine, December 23, 2004
Brian Sholis, “Hip Parade”, artforum.com, December 04, 2004
Sarah Milroy, “Nothing is Perfect in Shangri-la”, The Globe and Mail, Friday November 19, 2004 R23
Julia Dault and J. Kelly Nestruck, “Brush Strokes of What’s to Come”, The National Post,
Thursday November 18, 2004 AL6-7
Michael Wilson, “I, Assassin”, Frieze Magazine, Issue 83 pg. 107
Russell Smith, “Rush Hour at the Art Fair.” The Globe and Mail, Thursday November 13, 2003 R1
Thomas Hirschmann, NOW Magazine, October 23-29, 2003: pg. 76
Sarah Milroy, “Generation Next.” The Globe and Mail, Saturday May 10, 2003 V7, V9
Betty Ann Jordan, “Night Crawler.” Elm Street Magazine, (December 2002): T2
Richard Rhodes, "Finding Inspiration in the Dark Side of Suburbia." The Globe and Mail.
Saturday November 2, 2002: V6.
Carla Garnet, Review of Synthetic Psychosis, Canadian Art 19, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 136.
Sarah Milroy, “Critic’s Choice: Synthetic Psychosis.” Review of an exhibition in The Globe and Mail
(Saturday, April 13, 2002): R23.
David Liss, Synthetic Psychosis. A catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
from March 20 to April 28, 2002. Toronto: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2002.
R.M. Vaughan, “Twenty Questions: Brad Phillips.” C Magazine (Winter 2001): 18-19.
Daniel Borins, “The New Canadian Folk Art.” C Magazine (Winter 2001): 15.
Sarah Minogue, “Brad.” Trucker (Fall 2001): 22.
Richard Rhodes, “Canadian Art: Brad Phillips.” Canadian Art 18, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 15.
Awards and Grants
2011 Canada Council for the Arts- Research and Creation Grant
2010 BC Arts Council Grant
2008 Canada Council for the Arts – Project Grant
2003 Western Canada Winner – RBC New Canadian Painting Competition
Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
2001 Toronto Arts Council Creation Grant
Collections
The Capital Group
Royal Bank of Canada
Hauser & Wirth collection, Switzerland.
The Glenbow Museum
Writing
2012 Sean Landers - Interview, Hunter and Cook, No. 10 2011
2011 Bruce Bailey - Interview, Hunter and Cook, No. 9 2011
Alan Michael - Interview, Hunter and Cook, No. 8 2011
Jeff Wall - Interview, Hunter and Cook, No. 7 2011
2010 Keith Mayerson - Interview, Hunter and Cook, No. 6 2010
2009 Laura Owens – Interview, Hunter and Cook, Issue No. 05, 2009
Alex Morrison – Interview,Hunter and Cook, Issue No. 04, 2009
Jay Isaac – Interview, Whitehot Magazine, May, 20, 2009
Evan Lee – Interview, Whitehot Magazine, April 24, 2009
Daniel Gordon – Interview, Whitehot Magazine, March 22, 2009
Laverne in the Butt, Shirley in the Vagina: The Work of Kirsten Stoltmann, Interview, Hunter and Cook, Issue No. 03, 2009
2008 Melanie Schiff is What’s up, Interview, Hunter and Cook, Issue No. 02, 2008