Joel Daniel Phillips is an American artist whose work centers on examining questions of truth, historical amnesia, and the veracity of the stories we tell ourselves about our collective pasts. Employing the tenets of classical drawing and painting employed in monumental formats, Phillips works are re-contextualizations of archival historical material, and walk the line between describing a shared, forgotten history and prophesying a terrifying, Orwellian future.
Phillips’ work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries across the United States as well as abroad, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, The Art Museum of South Texas, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum of Art, and the Ackland Art Museum and Denver Art Museum, among others. In 2016 he was the 3rd prize recipient in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the artist is currently a Fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Phillips’ is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His drawings can be found in the public collections of the Ackland Art Museum, the Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art, the West Collection, the Gilcrease Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 21c Musuem Hotels, the Crocker Art Museum and the Denver Art Museum.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

“Killing the Negative (pt. 2)”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles CA, Oct 2021
“Killing the Negative”, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York NY, Oct 2020
“Charcoal Testament: Drawings by Joel Daniel Phillips” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN, March 2019
“It Felt Like The Future Was Now”, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK, Feb 2019
“Hazards May Be Present (pt. 2)”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Dec 2018
“The Future Was Now”, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo Norway, May 2018
“Welcome to the Orange West”, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN, Oct 2017
"Hazards May Be Present", Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, April 2017
“Belongings”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2016
"Repose" Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo Norway, Oct 2015
"I Am Another Yourself", Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Sept 2014
"No Regrets In Life", Satellite 66, San Francisco CA, May 2012


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:


2021
“The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today”, Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield MA, Oct 2020 - April 2021
Art Miami 2021, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami FL, Dec 2021
“Peripheral’, MA DORAN, Tulsa OK, Nov 2021
“The 10th Annual Moleskine Project”, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA, May 2021
“Angels in the Architecture”, Talon Gallery, Portland OR, April 2021
“4x8 Bridges”, 8 Bridges / Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Jan 2021


2020
“Greetings from Miami” Hashimoto Contemporary, New York NY, Dec 2020
“Covid Diaries”, Lovaas Projects, Berlin Germany, May 2020
“The Moleskine Project IX”, Spoke Art, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Feb 2020
“Lately”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, January 2020


2019
“The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today”, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., Oct 2019 - June 2020
Context Art Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami MI, Dec 2019
Scope Art Fair, Galleri Ramfjord, Miami MI, Dec 2019
“Dorothea Lange’s America”, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa OK, August 2019
“Recall/Respond: Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Gilcrease Museum Collaboration”, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa OK,
June 2019
“Potluck” Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, June 2019
"The Eight Annual Supersonic Invitational", Spoke Art Gallery, New York NY, April 2019
“On Paper”, Booth Gallery, New York NY, Feb 2019


2018
“re:home, A For Freedoms Exhibition”, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco CA, Dec 2018
Context Art Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami MI, Dec 2018
“The New Real III” Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN, Oct 2018
“The Moleskin Project VII” Spoke Art Gallery, New York NY, Aug 2018
"National Realism Survey", MA Doran, Tulsa OK, May 2018
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2018
Art on Paper Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York NY, March 2018
"The Seventh Annual Supersonic Invitational", Spoke Art Gallery, New York NY, Jan 2018
“NEW/NOW: Works By The Tulsa Artist Fellowship”, The Philbrook Museum, Tulsa OK, Jan 2018


2017
Context Art Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami MI, Dec 2017
"Juxtapozed" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne ID, Apr-Jul 2017
"Flourish", Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa AZ, May-Aug 2017
"National Realism Survey", MA Doran, Tulsa OK, May 2017
“Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition”, Tacoma Art Museum/Art Museum of South Texas/Kemper Museum, Various, Jan-Dec 2017
“Impulse: Then & Now”, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA. 2017.
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2017
"The Sixth Annual Supersonic Invitational", Spoke Art NY, New York NY, Jan 2017


2016
Miami Project, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami MI, Dec 2016
“The New Vanguard”, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster CA, August 2016
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2016
“Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition”, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, March 2016
“MFA Never”, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco CA, Feb 2016
“Art Pow! Wow!”, Honolulu School Museum of Art, Honolulu HI, Jan 2016
“The Fifth Annual Supersonic Invitational”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Jan 2016


2015
Miami Project, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami MI, Dec 2015
"Front Yard / Backstreet", Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA, Oct 2015
“Invisible College”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Forte Wayne IN, July 2015
“Manifest:Justice”, Task Force, Los Angeles CA, May 2015
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2015
Art on Paper Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York NY, March 2015
“Supersonic Electronic Invitational IV”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Jan 2015


2014
Scope Art Fair Miami, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami FL, Dec 2014
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2014
“EK Invitational, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA, May 2014


2013
“The Moleskin Project III” Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco CA, Dec 2013
“Bad Dads, A Tribute to Wes Anderson” Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco CA, Nov 2013
“AMC’s The Walking Dead Gallery Show” Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles CA, Oct 2013
“Califas” Group Invitational, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco CA, Oct 2013
Art Market San Francisco, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, May 2013
“Scorcese: an art show tribute” Group Invitational, Spoke Art Gallery/Bold Hype Gallery, New York NY, April 2013
“ReCreate ATX” Group Invitational, Hope Outdoor Gallery, Austin TX, March 2013
“Gallery Crawl NightLife” Pop-up Art Museum, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA, Jan 2013


2012
“Journeys: Westmont Artist’s Alumni Invitational”, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA, Oct 2012
“2 Blocks of Art” Group Invitational, Urban Solutions, San Francisco CA, Sept 2012
“Street Level” Group Invitational, Ogilvy & Mather, San Francisco CA, June 2012