Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works often employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.
Matt Phillips will present his first solo exhibition at DIMIN in June 2026. He has previously held solo exhibitions at Louis Buhl & Co, Detroit, MI; Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin, Germany; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; Devening Projects, Chicago, IL; and The Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at Nazarian/Curcio Gallery, Los Angeles,CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Harper’s, New York,NY; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.