Brad Phillips (artist)

Brad Phillips (born 1974 in Toronto, Ontario) is a contemporary Canadian painter and writer. He is best known for his dark complex work with the deep tropes of suicide, sex and self-injury. He has exhibited around the world, and is the subject of various critical texts and interviews. He began writing in 2009, and his published essays are part of his work-in-progress, I Believe in God. He resided in Vancouver between 2002 and 2013 and currently lives in Ontario.

Phillips grew up in the Toronto suburbs of Pickering and Scarborough.

Aesthetically, Phillips is noted for his photorealist style and often references his own photographs to compose his paintings. He is known for his dark and often sinister imagery as well as text-based works, many of which include literary references. He often employs satire, autobiography, and black humor in his paintings. Phillips calls his work highly biographical and likens his style to "confessional poetry."

Notable solo exhibitions by Phillips have been held at Wallspace Gallery (New York), Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver and Toronto), Residence Gallery (London, UK), Groeflin Maag Galerie (Zurich), Galerie ZK (Berlin), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston) and at the Liste 07 Young Art Fair (Basel). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and in Guy Maddin's "The Keyhole Project" at the Beursschouwburg in Belgium. His work has been shown at international art fairs, including the Armory Show New York, NADA Fair Miami, the Toronto International Art Fair and others. Phillips, representing Western Canada, was a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition in 2004. Brad Phillips' work has been published in The New York Times, Carte Blanche Volume II, The Walrus, and his 2013 exhibition at Louis B. James Gallery was listed as one of the top 100 Fall shows by Modern Painters (magazine).

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