Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Architecture), University of Waterloo, 1989
Bachelor of Arts cum laude (Fine Arts Major), University of Saskatchewan, 1985
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2021
17th International Painting Symposium “Mark Rothko 2021,” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia, September 4-18
2020
Explore and Create Grant (Research and Creation), Canada Council for the Arts
Project Assistance for Visual Artists Grant, British Columbia Arts Council
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Leighton Artists Studios program, one-month independent artist residency, Banff, AB
2019
VCCA Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, one-month artist residency, Amherst, Virginia, USA
2018
Vermont Studio Center, one-month artist residency, Johnson, Vermont, USA
Merit-based Artists Grant, Vermont Studio Center
1985
English Proficiency Award, University of Waterloo
1984
University Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan
Victor Colleaux Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan
1983
University Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan
1982
Provincial Proficiency Scholarship, Province of Saskatchewan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Matter of Colour, THIS Gallery, Vancouver, BC (curated by Shannon Pawliw), scheduled for May
2010
Manufactured Colour, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried)
2008
The Nature of Creation, Waterfront Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried)
Colour as Vibration, Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC (juried)
2003
Surface, Depth and Light, Studio Blue, Vancouver, BC
2000
Open/Shut, Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, YK (curated by George Harris)
1999
Fugitive Phenomena, ARTWORKS, Saskatoon, SK
1998
Community Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried)
1997
The Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC (curated by Julia Whittaker)
Garden in the Wind, ARTWORKS, Saskatoon, SK
1996
Internalized Landscapes, Summer Song Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Canadian Consulate General, Chicago, IL (curated by Jeanne Braun)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
2022 Preview Exhibition, THIS Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Curated by Shannon Pawliw). Through February, a preview exhibition of work by artists exhibiting at the gallery in 2022.
2021
Unsettled, THIS Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Curated by Shannon Pawliw). Scheduled online exhibition: Nov 1-Jan 30/2022; in-person exhibition: Nov 6-30
17th International Painting Symposium “Mark Rothko 2021,” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia, Sept 17, 2021–Jan 22, 2022 (curated by Tatjana Cernova)
2019
Art on Paper, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn. NY (curated by Rebecca Lax)
2013
Group Show, The Beaumont Gallery, Vancouver, BC (curated by Nancy Blanchard)
2012
Sans Brush, Cityscape Community Art Space, North Vancouver Community Arts Council, North Vancouver, (juried)
2011
Scapes, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON (international competition)
2005
Painting on the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried)
Heatwave, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2002
A Permanent Collection, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC (curated by George Harris)
2000
Gallery L-V, Vancouver, BC
1998
ARTWORKS, Saskatoon, SK
artWORK: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary BC Artists, Prince George, BC (juried)
1997
The Canadian Collection at APEC‘97, Vancouver, BC, (juried)
ARTWORKS, Saskatoon, SK
1996
ARTWORKS, Saskatoon, SK
ART WRITING
2022
Phillips, Leon. “Painting Beyond Image,” painters TUBES magazine, (Sweden: Studio 5, December 28, 2022), pp 12-20
2013
Phillips, Leon, “Lyotard’s Dance of Paint,” in Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance, a special issue of Cultural Politics, ed. Peter Milne (Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press, Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2013), pp 219-226.
REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2022
Taylor, Denis. “Gestural Abstraction – Leon Phillips,” painters TUBES magazine, (Sweden: Studio 5, November 29, 2022), pp 12-17
2021
Annual Report 2021, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, USA, p 51
Let’s Talk Art: Leon Phillips, 17th International Painting Symposium “Mark Rothko 2021,” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Mark Rothko 2021: International Painting Symposium, exhibition catalog, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia, pp 38-43.
2020
McKeown, Kevin Dale. “Leon Phillips: Exploring the Materiality of Color,” Artists Among Us, The West End Journal, November 1
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Leighton Artists Studios Residency, studio feature (virtual 360 degree studio tour)
2018
Vermont Studio Center Tumblr series, “Vermont Studio Center—In the Studio: Leon Phillips"
2017
Parker, Emily and Anne van Leeuwen editors, Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, Oxford University Press, painting featured as cover art.
2016
CARFAC British Columbia, Member News. “Feature Artist: Leon Phillips,” http://www.carfacbc.org/feature-artist-leon-phillips/, March 17
2013
Milne, Peter. "Exceeding the Given: Rewriting Lyotard's Aesthetics," in Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance, a special issues of Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, July, 2013
Griffin, Kevin, "Leon Phillips: Reclaiming Gesture and Colour in Painting, Vancouver Sun, Art Seen, Nov. 5
Garnett, Joy. NEWSgrist: Where Spin is Art, “Cultural Politics Special Issue: Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance," September 10
2005
Painting on the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery exhibition catalog, Vancouver, BC
2001
Milne, Peter. An Aesthetics without Nature, History and Home in the Kantian Sublime, University of Leuven, Belgium
2000
The Afternoon Show, CBC Radio Yukon, 13 October, Whitehorse, YK
1998
artWORK, A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary BC Artists, BC Festival of the Arts exhibition catalog, Prince George, BC
1997
The Canadian Collection at APEC, APEC exhibition catalog, Vancouver, BC
The Star-Phoenix, Saskatoon, SK, 08 March 1997
Prince George This Week, Prince George, BC, 25 May 1997
The Prince George Free Press, Prince George, BC, 12 June 199
Colleen & Co, Global TV Saskatoon, SK, 17 March 1997
WORKSHOPS and ARTIST’S TALKS
2021
Artist Talk, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2018
Artist Talk, "The Materiality of Colour," Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2000
“The Abstracted Landscape,” Painting Workshop, Whitehorse, YK
“The Role of the Camera in Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Lecture, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK
Artist Talk, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK.
1997
Artist Talk, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
Creative Workshop, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
1995
“Landscape into Art,” Artist Talk, West End Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
COLLECTIONS