Born: 1974, Toronto, Canada

 

Education

1995-97, 1999 Visual Arts Diploma Program, Toronto School of Art
1993-95 Interdisciplinary Program, Ontario College of Art

 

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Groeflin Maag Galerie, Sentimental Journey, Zurich, Switzerland
Monte Clark Gallery, No P.S., Toronto, ON
Monte Clark Gallery, No Comebacks, Vancouver, BC
Allston Skirt Gallery, Sentimental Monochrome, Boston, MA

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, Vancouver Mushrooms, Basel, Switzerland

2006
CSA Space, Personal Work, Vancouver, BC

2005
Wallspace, On Feeling Better, New York, NY
Groeflin Maag Galerie, 1996, Basel, Switzerland

2004
Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Silver Springs, Toronto, ON
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2002
Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto, ON

 

Two Person Exhibitions

2007
Allston Skirt Gallery, The Great Depression, Brad Phillips & Rasool Sarangi, curated by Christine Vassallo, Boston, MA (forthcoming October)

2003
Andrew Kreps Gallery, Jedediah Caesar & Brad Phillips, New York, NY

 

Group Exhibitions

2008
Various Photographs, NY Photo Festival, curated by Tim Barber, NY
The Other Gallery presents Guy Maddin's Keyhold 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, ON
Paul Butler’s Collage Party/The Keyhole Experiment (under the auspices of Guy Maddin) 44 Princess Street, Winnipeg, MN

2007
Paul Butler’s Collage Party/The Keyhole Experiment (under the auspices of Guy Maddin) 44 Princess Street, Gimli, MN
Raise Hight the Roofbeam, Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL (curated by Melanie Schiff & Kristen Van Deventer)
Paul Butler’s Collage Party, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
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, Toronto (curated by David Liss)

2005
Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Holly Coulis)
Paul Butler’s Collage Party, Antisocial, Vancouver, BC
Toronto/Berlin Exchange, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
Bucolica, Wallspace, New York, NY
The Terminal Show, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON (organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art)
Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
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, ON
I, Assassin, Wallspace, New York, NY (curated by Slater Bradley)

2003
Hooters, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, ON
In My Solitude, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto, ON (curated by Wayne Baerwaldt)
Two Weeks In Autumn, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Fountain of Youth, TIAF, Toronto, ON
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, NY

2002
Steve Canaday, Brad Phillips, Luigino Valentin, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery,
New York, NY
The Catholic Show, Art System, Toronto, ON
Don’t Fear the Reaper, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
Synthetic Psychosis, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON (cat.)
Mercer Living, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
Wreck Room, Art System, Toronto, ON and Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2001
Dark Movement, Art System, Toronto, ON
Glo, Archive Gallery, Toronto, ON
Grand Expectorant, West Wing Art Space, Toronto, ON
Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful, Art System, Toronto, ON
More than a Feeling, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
Mercer Union: A Love Story, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON

2000
Glo, Archive Gallery, Toronto, ON

1999
Solo Exhibition (A Group Show), 286 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON
Open Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Galleries, The Library and Gallery,
Cambridge, ON

1996
This is it: Taku Dazai, Alex Morrison, Brad Phillips, Nora Vaughan Gallery,
Toronto, ON

 

Curation

2005
My One and Only (Brad Phillips on Rasool Sarangi), Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY (cat.)

 

Art Fairs

2007
The Armory Show, NY, LISTE The Young Art Fair, Basel Switzerland, MACO, Mexico City

2006
Artissima - Turin, Italy, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, NADA Fair, Miami, Scope New York, MACO, Mexico City, Mexico, Scope New York, NADA Fair, Miami, Toronto International Art Fair, Aqua Art, Miami

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, NADA Fair, Miami

2003
Toronto International Art Fair

2001
Art Sante Fe, Sante Fe, New Mexico

 

Publications

2008
Paul Butler’s Collage Party, 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).

 

Bibliography

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

2003
Western Canada Winner – RBC New Canadian Painting Competition
Ontario Arts Council Project Grant

2001
Toronto Arts Council Creation Grant

 

Collections

Royal Bank of Canada
Hauser + Wirth Collection, Switzerland