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phil sims
Blue Violet Studio Painting, 2004



Green Studio Painting, 2004



Tea Bowl, 2004



Magenta Studio Painting, 2004



Brown Orange Studio Painting, 2004



Solo Exhibitions
2004    fire/light/color/matter: paintings and tea bowls from 2004, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2003    fire / light / color / matter (paintings and tea bowls from 2003), Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003    Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2002    The Cologne Painting (Pietá Cycle), Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln, Germany
2002    The Presence of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
2002    The Stable Paintings, Villa di Biumo, Varese, Italy
2001    Red Spectrum Paintings, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
2001    Paintings, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
2001    Neue Bilder, Gallerie Krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2001    Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000    Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2000    Bonn Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1999    Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998    Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1997    Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1996    Marienbad Paintings, Freiburg, Germany
1996    Paintings, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
1995    Paintings, Ars Nova Galleri, Göteborg, Sweden
1995    Paintings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
1995    The Stable Paintings, Crosby Street/Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1994    Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1993    Umbrian Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1993    Painting: Into Blue, Artothek, Köln, Germany
1993    Umbrian Paintings, Quaderni Perugini Di Musica Contemporanea, Pieve Caina, Italy
1992    Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
1992    Two Black Paintings, Galerie Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1991    Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany
1991    Malerei Pur, Räumen von Prima Kunst, Kiel, Germany
1991    Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1990    (October), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
1990    (April), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
1988    Now Color, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1986    Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1986    Drawings, Kingsborough College Art Gallery, City University of New York
1986    New Paintings, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
1986    Paintings, 1979-1985, Queens Museum, New York, New York
1984    Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
1984    Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany
1984    Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
1983    Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
1983    Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
1983    Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
1982    Raum für Malerei, Köln, Germany
1982    Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1980    Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California
1979    Casat Gallery, LaJolla, California
1977    Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California
1975    Wenger-Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California

Selected Group Exhibitions
2001    La percezione dello spazio, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Piazza Bra, Verona Italy
2001    Radical Painting Farbe beim Wort genommen, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany
2001    Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, New York
2000    Bonn Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2000    Grau ist nicht Grau, Galerie Gisele Linder Basel, Switzerland
2000    More American Artists, Ausstellungsraum Harry Zellweger, Basel, Switzerland
2000    Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany
2000    Painting, Esso Gallery, New York, New York
1999    The Tao of Painting: Principles in Monochrome, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1999    Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999    Early Radical Painters, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999    Color-Based Painting High Modernism, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
1999    Color-Based Painting, The Root of the Actual, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1998    The Panza di Biumo Collection, Artists of the Eighties and Nineties, Gubbio/The Museum of the Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy
1998    Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998    Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
1998    Color Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1997    Collection Panza di Biumo, 1980-1990, Llonear, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1997    Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
1996    N'oublions Pas le Blanc, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
1996    Pittura Contemporanea in Galleria, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
1996    La Collezione Panza Di Biumo-artisti degli anni '80 e '90, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
1995    Color, Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, New York
1994    Esposizione Scelsi, Palazzo dei Priori, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, Perugia, Italia
1994    Ars Nova Galleri, Göteborg, Sweden
1992    Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
1991    Three Americans, Galerie Hans Hake, Wiesbaden, Germany
1990    Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1988    La Couleur Seule, l'Experience du Monochrome, Musee D'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1988    Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston, MA
1987    Rigor, John Good Gallery, New York, New York
1987    10 Jahre Kunst, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1986    Spirit Tracks, Big Abstract Drawings, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
1984    Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1984    Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, New York
1984    Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst, Studio F, Ulm, Germany
1984    New Abstraction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1983    New Work, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
1983    Paint into Image, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
1983    New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
1983    Bilder Von (Paintings of Seven Painters), Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
1983    Color Painting, Three New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
1983    Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid, Germany
1983    Städtische Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
1983    Kunstvere in Unna, Germany
1983    New York I Linköping, Ostergotlands Lansmuseum, Linköping, Sweden
1983    Installations, Directions on Broadway, New York, New York
1982    Unpunctuated, Grommet Gallery, New York, New York
1982    Small Format, Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982    Peintres Americains, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland
1982    Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
1982    Color: Four Painters, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1981    Painting: Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, New York
1981    Ung Amerikansk Kunst Pa Toppen, Galerie Arnesen, Kopenhagen
1980    Color Painting, Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
1980    Color Painting, Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California
1979    Fundamental Color, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1978    Black & White on Paper, Nobe Gallery, New York, New York

Selected Bibliography
Art News January 2004, "Phil Sims," Dottie Indyke
San Francisco Chronicle March 29, 2001, "Phil Sims at Gross," David Bonetti
Artnews Summer, 2000, "Up at the Villa," Rachel Donadio
Basler Zeitung June 28, 2000, "Grau is nicht Grau," Marion Benz
Santa Fe New Mexican October 1, 1999, "New Mexico Light Goes beyond Surface" Joe Quattro
Albuquerque Journal North July 4, 1999, "Artist's Goal Is to Create 'Color Experience'" Craig Sullivan
Albuquerque Journal North July 2, 1999, "Sims Works Offer One-on-One Experience with Color" Craig Sullivan
San Francisco Examiner May 7, 1999, "Abstraction's Remarkable Return," David Bonetti
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung April 20, 1999, "Im Studiolo herrscht jetzt die Monochromie" Georg Imdahl
The New York Times April 24 1998, "Phil Sims," Ken Johnson
Art in America May 1996 "Phil Sims at the Crosby street Project," Lilly Wei
The New York Times July 21 1995, "Color, Sign, System, Sensibility," Pepe Karmel
Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea "Nuove Prospettive per L'Osservazione Tra Immagine e Musica," Perugia, Italia, Catalogo 1994, Prof. Michael Böckemuhl
Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger 8 September 1993, "Farbe als Lebenselixier," Marianne Stockebrand
Malerei Pur Gesellschaft für akustistische Lebenshilfe, Kiel, Germany, Catalog 1991, Jürgen Paatz
Kunstforum International Bd. 118 1992 Phil Sims "Two Black Paintings" Michael Hübl
La Couleur Seule L'Expérience du Monochrome, Musée St. Pieree, Lyon, France, Catalog, 1988, Thierry Raspail
Phil Sims Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, Catalog 1986, Stephen Westfall
Die Gegenwart der Farbe Kunstalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, Catalog 1986 Erich Franz
Phil Sims Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany, Catalog 1984 Erich Franz
Radical Painting Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Catalog,1984, Lily Wei
Art in America April 1981 "Getting on with Painting," Marcia Hafif
Flash Art February 1982, "Color: Four Painters," Michele Meyers
Arts Magazine March 1982, "Monochrome Met," Ann Schoenfeld
Color: Four Painters Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York; Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden, Catalog 1982, Jesse Murphy
Color Painting Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California, Catalog 1980, Phil Sims
Flash Art No. 92-93 October- November 1979, "Monochrome in New York: Dialogue between Seven Artists."

Selected Public Collections
Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Köln, Köln, Germany
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Collection Panza Di Biumo, Verese, Italy
Collection Julian Pretto, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
Musee D'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Kiel Kunsthal, Kiel, Germany
Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California




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