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- Born
- 1940
- Richmond, CA
- Education
- 1964–65
- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2018
- COLOR / exploration in painting and ceramics, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
exhibition catalog
- Phil Sims: Color Part One, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Soloturn, Switzerland
- 2017
- SOLO! PHIL SIMS, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiberg, Germany
- 2012
- New Navigators, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
- 2010
- Phil Sims: Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
- 2009
- Phil Sims: Tea Bowls and Watercolors, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Phil Sims: Selected Works, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
- 2008
- Color in My Mind, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- The Interplay of Color, Baukunst Galerie Köln, Germany
- Neuerwerbungen zur monochromen Malerei, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
- fire // light // color // matter paintings and ceramics from 2008, Dinter Fine Art, New York, New York
- 2007
- Paintings, Galerie Carmen Weber, Zug, Switzerland
- 2006
- Emotion of Color, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
- 2005
- Phil Sims: Emotion of Color, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
- Phil Sims: The Complexity of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
- 2004
- Paintings and Tea Bowls from 2004, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
- 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
- Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
- 2002
- The Cologne Painting (Pietá Cycle), Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln, Germany
- The Presence of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
- The Stable Paintings, Villa di Biumo, Varese, Italy
- 2001
- Red Spectrum Paintings, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
- Paintings, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
- Neue Bilder, Gallerie Krohn, Basel, Switzerland
- Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2000
- Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
- 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
- Paintings, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
- 1995
- Paintings, Ars Nova Galleri, Göteborg, Sweden
- Paintings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
- 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
- Painting: Into Blue, Artothek, Köln, Germany
- Umbrian Paintings, Quaderni Perugini Di Musica Contemporanea, Pieve Caina, Italy
- 1992
- Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
- Two Black Paintings, Galerie Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel, Germany
- 1991
- Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany
- Malerei Pur, Räumen von Prima Kunst, Kiel, Germany
- Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
- 1990
- (October), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
- (April), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988
- Now Color, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1986
- Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- Drawings, Kingsborough College Art Gallery, City University of New York
- New Paintings, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
- Paintings, 1979-1985, Queens Museum, New York, New York
- 1984
- Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
- Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany
- Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
- 1983
- Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
- Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
- Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
- 1982
- Raum für Malerei, Köln, Germany
- 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
- 2020
- 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
exhibition catalog
- 2010
- Wasser / Farbe Color / Water, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
- 2009
- Sammlung XXL, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
- 2008
- Man Leaving Earth, Kolumba, Cologne (year long exhibition)
- 2007
- The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- 3 New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
- All from America (Part one), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
- Death and Love in Modern Times, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY
- Painting Painting, Modern Gallery- Vass Lásló Collection, Veszprém, Hungary
- 2006
- Transcontinental, Gallery N. Von Bartha, London
- 2005
- The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- 2004
- Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Rosskopf, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
- Wege zur Abstraktion III, Kunstverein Schloss Plön, Plön, Germany
- 2001
- La percezione dello spazio, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Piazza Bra, Verona Italy
- Radical Painting Farbe beim Wort genommen, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany
- Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, New York
- 2000
- Bonn Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Grau ist nicht Grau, Galerie Gisele Linder Basel, Switzerland
- More American Artists, Ausstellungsraum Harry Zellweger, Basel, Switzerland
- Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany
- Painting, Esso Gallery, New York, New York
- 1999
- The Tao of Painting: Principles in Monochrome, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
- Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- Early Radical Painters, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Color-Based Painting High Modernism, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 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
- Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
- Color Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
- 1997
- Collection Panza di Biumo, 1980-1990, Llonear, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
- 1996
- N'oublions Pas le Blanc, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
- Pittura Contemporanea in Galleria, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
- 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
- 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
- Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston, MA
- 1987
- Rigor, John Good Gallery, New York, New York
- 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
- Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, New York
- Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst, Studio F, Ulm, Germany
- New Abstraction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 1983
- New Work, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
- Paint into Image, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
- New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
- Bilder Von (Paintings of Seven Painters), Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
- Color Painting, Three New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany
- Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid, Germany
- Städtische Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Kunstvere in Unna, Germany
- New York I Linköping, Ostergotlands Lansmuseum, Linköping, Sweden
- Installations, Directions on Broadway, New York, New York
- 1982
- Unpunctuated, Grommet Gallery, New York, New York
- Small Format, Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
- Peintres Americains, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland
- Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, New York
- Color: Four Painters, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
- 1981
- Painting: Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, New York
- Ung Amerikansk Kunst Pa Toppen, Galerie Arnesen, Kopenhagen
- 1980
- Color Painting, Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
- 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
- Kunstforum International, February-April, 2006, “Phil Sims ‘Emotion of Color’”, Martin Blättner
- San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 2005, “Phil Sims; monochrome paintings, tea bowls,” Kenneth Baker
- 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
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Köln, Köln, Germany
- Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
- Kolumba Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Köln, Germany
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
- Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
- Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
- Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- The Panza Collection, Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Varese, Italy
- Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
- Städtishe Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen, Germany
- Sammlung KiCo Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum, Hartford, CT
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