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New York / Los Angeles

Phil Collins

(British, born 1970)

study for an unknown girl #2 by phil collins

Phil Collins

study for an unknown girl #2, 2009

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rude boy, kek lok si #2 by phil collins

Phil Collins

Rude Boy, Kek Lok Si #2, 2011

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bethlehem #1 by phil collins

Phil Collins

bethlehem #1, 2003

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untitled (wave) by phil collins

Phil Collins

Untitled (wave), 2017

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Biography

Timeline

1970
Born Runcorn, UK
1990 - 1994
University of Manchester, Manchester
1998 - 2000
University of Ulster, School of Art & Design
Residences
2008 DAAD, Berlin
2006 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2005 Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2004 IASPIS, Stockholm
2004 Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
2001 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2017
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Phil Collins, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ(solo exhibition)
my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH(solo exhibition)
Now, today, tomorrow and always, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
L’Offre, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
The Return of Memory, HOME, Manchester, UK
Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine
Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
Collection on Display: Communities, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Trauma and Revival, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, England
I can call this progress to halt, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
La Terra Inquieta / The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Return of Memory, HOME, Manchester, England
2016
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Phil Collins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: A Learning Site, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA(solo exhibition)
El Mundo No Escuchara, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL(solo exhibition)
my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, Theatre Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany(solo exhibition)
Public, Private, Secret, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (ongoing)
We Smoke, We Dance, We Kiss, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, CA
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
The End of Oil, Bergen Assembly 2016, various venues, Bergen, Norway
Silence, Darkness. If We Know What Was, Do We Know What Will Come?, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia
2015
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Phil Collins: how to make a refugee, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long, Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveling to Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, England; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany; The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, England; Kino der Kunst, Münich, Germany; HOME, Manchester, England.(solo exhibition)
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long and dunia tak akan mendengar, F.A.M.E. - Film & Music Experience, La Gaîté lyrique, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in a bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany.(solo exhibition)
my heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in a bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, 12" double LP, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
use! value! exchange!, Sunshine Socialist Cinema, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden(solo exhibition)
marxism today (prologue), Sunshine Socialist Cinema, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden(solo exhibition)
Public, Private, Secret, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Local Stories / Global Practices, MBE15 Medellín International Art, Encounter, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
MBE15 Medellin International Art Encounter, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Basement TV, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Marx Gespenster, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Irony as Subversive Intervention, European Media Art Festival 2015, Kunsthalle Ösnabrück, Ösnabrück, Germany
Cinema Sayara!, 5th Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah, Palestine
IMMA Collection: Fragments, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2014
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long, 58th BFI London Film Festival, London, England; traveling to Queen's Park, Glasgow, Scotland. [commissioned by The Common Guild](solo exhibition)
Tears and Politics: Works by Phil Collins and Christian Jankowski, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX [screening](solo exhibition)
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany [screening](solo exhibition)
Open Museum, Open City, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
This Is What Comes, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Past Continuous - Reflections on Social Realism in Contemporary Art, Fészek Artists' Club, Budapest, Hungary
UHF 42, apexart Franchise, Ramallah, Palestine
f/stop 6. Festival fur Fotografie Leipzig, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, TBA21 Academy, Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
Invocable Reality, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, April 9-August 31.
Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
In the Aftermath of Trauma, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
between the lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Phil Collins, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: In Every Dream Home a Heartache, curated by Anna Brohm, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: they shoot horses, National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ottawa, Canada(solo exhibition)
The Model, Sligo, Ireland(solo exhibition)
the meaning of style and dunia tak akan mendengar, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Scotland [screening](solo exhibition)
Open Museum, Open City, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
This Is What Comes, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Past Continuous - Reflections on Social Realism in Contemporary Art, Fészek Artists' Club, Budapest, Hungary
UHF 42, apexart Franchise, Ramallah, Palestine
f/stop 6. Festival fur Fotografie Leipzig, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, TBA21 Academy, Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
Invocable Reality, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, April 9-August 31.
Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
In the Aftermath of Trauma, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
between the lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: the meaning of style, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia(solo exhibition)
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Phil Collins, Museum of Modern art, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History, The Davis Museum & Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Moral Holiday, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
Artes Mundi Prize Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Wales
I Wish This Was A Song: Music in Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Oslo, Norway
Phil Collins: soy mi madre, Apsis Kino, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, as part of Big Picture II (Szenen/Figuren)
Reactivation, The 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, Shanghai, China
Revolution vs. Revolution, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Nedfall, a one-night series in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall and Bergen Film Club, Bergen, Norway
Screening of the meaning of style, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hors Pistes 2012, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
20th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Vila do Conde, Portugal
A Peculiar Form of Fiction, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, England
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us at the National Sculpture Factory in association with the Corona Cork Film Festival, Cork City, Ireland
2011
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Maraboupark, Stockholm, Sweden(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: marxism today, British Film Institute, Southbank, London, England(solo exhibition)
Jarla Partilager, Stockholm, Sweden(solo exhibition)
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, FL
In The First Circle, Fundacío Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Berlin 2000 – 2011: Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
'For Eindhoven' – The City as Muse, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Screening of marxism today (prologue), 40th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Open House, Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore, China
Courtisane Festival 2011, Ghent, Belgium
Without Reality There is No Utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, NY
Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
La Chanson, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Museum of Desires, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Testing Stage, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, NY
VideoCriação, organized by The City Councel of Rio de Janeiro, Helio Oiticica Art Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Phil Collins, The Collection, Lincoln, England(solo exhibition)
Berlin / Forum Expanded, 60th Berlin International Film Festival, DAADgalerie, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Marxism Today, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England(solo exhibition)
Ich esse keine bananen mehr und trinke natuerlich keine Coca-Cola, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland(solo exhibition)
The Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN [travelling to: MoMA
PS1, New York, NY; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Contemporary Arts Museum, University of South Florida, St. Petersburgh, FL]
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Auto-Kino!, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany, organized by Phil Collins
My War: Identity and Appropriation under War Condition, FACT, Liverpool, England
Art Rebels: Catalyst Arts 1994-2010, A Curious Retrospective, Belfast, Ireland
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, TX
Anti-photojournalism, La Virreina Center de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Phil Collins: the world won't listen, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
when slaves love each other, it's not love, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Phil Collins: soy mi madre, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England(solo exhibition)
zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom), National College of Art and Design / Gallery, Dublin(solo exhibition)
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
50th October Salon, organized by MoCA Belgrade, Serbia
The Reach of Realism, MoCA North Miami, Florida
AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, FACT, Liverpool
The Reaches of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Fluid Zones, Jakarta Biennial, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
To be Determined, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Acting Out: New Social Experiments in Video, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Double Take: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2009, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Video Art: Replay, Part I: Asking Not Telling, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Abandon Normal Devices: Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, FACT, Liverpool, England
Jerusalem Syndrome, The Jerusalem Show 0.2, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Circumstance, 50th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
2008
Phil Collins Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Phil Collins: soy mi madre, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO(solo exhibition)
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado(solo exhibition)
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Fressen oder fliegen: Art into theatre-theatre into art, Hebel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Balzano, Italy
American Idyll: Contemporary Art and Karaoke, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Double Agent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Art Sheffield 08: Yes, No & Other Options, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Festival de Performance, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Panorámica ciclo de video, Bailando sin salir de casa, Museo Tamayo arte contemporáneo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico
Double Agent, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

Public Collections

REFCO Photography Collection, Chicago, IL
Tate Gallery, London, England
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arts Council of England Collection, London, England
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Hamlet, NY
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York, NY
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

Literature

2008
Eliza Williams, “Phil Collins: Return of the Real”, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 95
Roberta Smith, “An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsbugh”, The New York Times, May 9 2008
Ann-Marie Michel, “The sound of one hand slapping”, ARTNews, April 2008
Melissa Gronlund, ‘’Double Agent’, Frieze, Issue 114, April 2008
Charles Darwent, ‘Double Agent, ICA, London’, Independent, February 17, 2008
Ana Finel Honigman, ‘Phil Collins at Victoria Miro’, Art in America, February 2008
Helen Molesworth, ‘Man with a Movie Camera’, Artforum, January 2008
gercegin geri donusu / the return of the real, sala rekalde, Bilbao (Maurizio Lazzarato, Edgar Schmitz, Leire Vergara)
Forum 59: Phil Collins, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (Douglas Fogle)
Charlotte Higgins, ‘Manipulated: artist gives voice to daytime reality show guests’, October 5, 2007
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