Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Phil Sims

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


		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