Richard Phillips was born in 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his B.F.A. in 1984 from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and his M.F.A. in 1986 from Yale University. His recent solo museum exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland , Kunstverein Hamburg in Germany, “Paintings and Drawings,” at Le Consortium in Dijon, “Lindsay Lohan,” at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and “Negation of the Universe,” at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas .

His work in public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Tate Modern in London and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands.

His films ‘Lindsay Lohan’ and ‘Sasha Grey’ premiered at the 54th Venice Bienale in 2011 and at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane in 2012. First Point premiered at Art Unlimited at Art Basel, Switzerland in June 2012.

Brian met up with Richard at his Red Hook studio in Brooklyn and they spoke about his early days in the Village making sculptural paintings, surfing and racing, the impact of music, Blinky and Motherwell and lots more.