Phil Sims

Born 1940

Lives and works in Lakewood, USA

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010Phil Sims Color Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany

2009Phil Sims Tea Bowls and Watercolors Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2009Phil Sims selected works Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

2008Phil Sims Color in my Mind Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

2008Phil Sims Neuerwerbungen zur monochromen Malerei, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

2008Phil Sims The Interplay of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany

2008fire // light // color // matter paintings and ceramics from 2008 Dinter Fine Art, New York, USA

2007Paintings, Galerie Carmen Weber, Zug, Switzerland

2006Emotion of Color Westfälisches Landmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Munster, Germany

2005Emotion of Color Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

2005The Complexity of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany

2005Paintings and Tea Bowls from 2004, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

2005fire / light / color / matter (paintings and tea bowls from 2004) Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, USA

2003fire / light / color / matter (paintings and tea bowls from 2003) Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2002The Cologne Painting (Pietá Cycle), Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln, Germany

2002The Presence of Color, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany

2002The Stable Paintings, Villa di Biumo, Varese, Italy

2001Red Spectrum Paintings, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany

2001Paintings, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany

2001Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, USA

2000Bonn Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2000Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

2000Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA

1999Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1998Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA

1997Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

1996Marienbad Paintings, Freiburg, Germany

1996Paintings, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium

1996The Stable Paintings, Villa di Biumo, Varese, Italy

1995Paintings, Ars Nova Galleri, Göteborg, Sweden

1995Paintings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany

1995The Stable Paintings, Crosby Street/Stark Gallery, New York, USA

1994Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA

1993Umbrian Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

1992Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany

1992Two Black Paintings, Galerie Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel, Germany

1991Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany

1991Malerei Pur, Räumen von Prima Kunst, Kiel, Germany

1991Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

1990(October), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, USA

1990(April), Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, USA

1988Now Color, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1986Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

1986Drawings, Kingsborough College Art Gallery, City University of New York New Paintings, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

1986Paintings, 1979-1985, Queens Museum, New York, USA

1984Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, USA

1984Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany

1984Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany

1983Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, USA

1983Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1982Raum für Malerei, Köln, Germany

1982Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany

1982Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden

1980Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1979Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California, USA

1977Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California, USA

1975Wenger-Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010Wasser / Farbe Color / Water Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland

2009Sammlung XXL, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

2008Man Leaving Earth Kolumba (Art Museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne) year long exhibition, The Cologne Painting (Pietá Cycle) exhibited in Room 21, Tea Bowls 2007/2008, exhibited in Room 11, Cologne, Germany

2007Panza Collection, An Experience of Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

20073 New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

2007All from America (Part one), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

2007Death and Love in Modern Times, Dinter Fine Art, New York, USA

2007Painting Painting, Modern Gallery- Vass László Collection, Veszprém, Hungary

2005The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

2004Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Rosskopf, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

2004Wege zur Abstraktion lll, Kunstverein Schloss Plön, Plön, Germany

2001La percezione dello spazio, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Piazza Bra, Verona Italy

2001Radical Painting—Farbe beim Wort genommen, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany

2001Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, USA

2000Grau is nicht Grau, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2000More American Artists, Ausstellungsraum Harry Zellweger, Basel Switzerland

2000Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany

2000Painting, Esso Gallery, New York, USA

1999The Tao of Painting: Principles in Monochrome, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA

1999Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, USA

1999Early Radical Painters, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1999Color-Based Painting: High Modernism, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1999Color-Based Painting: The Root of the Actual, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1998The Panza di Biumo Collection: Artists of the Eighties and Nineties, The Museum of the Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy (Five paintings created for a specific room. Paintings on view through 2003.)

1998Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland Color Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1997Collection Panza di Biumo, 1980-1990, Llonear, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1997Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland

1996N'oublions Pas le Blanc, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland

1996Pittura Contemporanea in Galleria, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy

1996La Collezione Panza di Biumo-artisti degli anni '80 e '90, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy

1995Color, Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, USA

1994Esposizione Scelsi, Palazzo dei Priori, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, Perugia, Italia

1994Ars Nova Galleri, Göteborg, Sweden

1992Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany

1991Three Americans, Galerie Hans Hake, Wiesbaden, Germany

1990Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1988La Couleur Seule: L'Experience du Monochrome, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

1988Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1987Rigor, John Good Gallery, New York, USA

198710 Jahre Kunst, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany

1986Spirit Tracks: Big Abstract Drawings, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA

1984Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

1984Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, USA

1984Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst, Studio F, Ulm, Germany

1984New Abstraction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

1983New Work, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, USA

1983Paint into Image, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, USA

1983New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

1983Bilder, (Paintings of Seven Painters), Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany

1983Color Painting: Three New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser/Druckwerk, Munich, Germany

1983Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid, Germany

1983Städtische Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

1983Kunstvere in Unna, Germany

1983New York I Linköping, Östergötlands Lansmuseum, Linköping, Sweden

1983Installations, Directions on Broadway, New York, USA

1982Unpunctuated, Grommet Gallery, New York, USA

1982Small Format, Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1982Peintres Americains, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland

1982Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, USA

1982Color: Four Painters, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden

1981Painting: Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, New York, USA

1981Ung Amerikansk Kunst Pa Toppen, Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1980Color Painting, Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden

1980Color Painting, Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1979Fundamental Color, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden

1978Black & White on Paper, Nobe Gallery, New York, USA

Selected Public Collections

Kolumba Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Köln, Germany

Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany

Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

The Panza Collection, Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Varese, Italy

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany

Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Städtishe Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen, Germany

Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Selected Bibliography

2005San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, "Phil Sims' monochrome paintings, tea bowls" Kenneth Baker

2004Art News, January, "Phil Sims," Dottie Indyke

2001San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, "Phil Sims at Gross," David Bonetti

2000Artnews, Summer, "Up at the Villa," Rachel Donadio Basler Zeitung, June 28, "Grau is nicht Grau," Marion Benz

1999Santa Fe New Mexican, October 1, "New Mexico Light Goes beyond Surface," Joe Quattro

1999Albuquerque Journal North, July 4, "Artist's Goal Is to Create 'Color Experience'" Craig Sullivan

1999Albuquerque Journal North, July 2, "Sims Works Offer One-on-One Experience with Color," Craig Sullivan

1999San Francisco Examiner, May 7, "Abstraction's Remarkable Return," David Bonetti

1999Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 20, "Im Studiolo herrscht jetzt die Monochromie," Georg Imdahl

1998The New York Times, April 24, "Phil Sims," Ken Johnson

1996Art in America, May, "Phil Sims at the Crosby Street Project," Lilly Wei

1995The New York Times, July 21, "Color, Sign, System, Sensibility," Pepe Karmel

1995Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, "Nuove Prospettive per L'Osservazione Tra Immagine e Musica," Perugia, Italia

1994Catalogo, Prof. Michael Böckemuhl

1993Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, 8 September, "Farbe als Lebenselixier," Marianne Stockebrand

1992Kunstforum International, Bd. 118, Phil Sims, "Two Black Paintings," Michael Hübl

1991Malerei Pur, Gesellschaft für akustistische Lebenshilfe, Kiel, Germany, Catalog, Jürgen Paatz

1988La Couleur Seule, L'Expérience du Monochrome, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, Catalog, Thierry Raspail

1986Phil Sims, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, Catalog, Stephen Westfall

1986Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, Catalog, Erich Franz

1984Phil Sims, Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany, Catalog, Erich Franz

1984Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Catalog, Lilly Wei

1982Flash Art, February, "Color: Four Painters," Michele Meyers

1982Arts Magazine, March, "Monochrome Met," Ann Schoenfeld

1982Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, New York/Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden, Catalog, Jesse Murphy

1981Art in America, April, "Getting on with Painting," Marcia Hafif

1980Color Painting, Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California, Catalog, Phil Sims

1979Flash Art, No. 92-93, October–November, "Monochrome in New York: Dialogue between Seven Artists."