Cece Philips

Really excited to be showing new work this week with @public.gallery in New York (!for the first time) alongside @rose.nestler ‘s amazing work. ‘Dolls’ House’ opens today and runs until Sunday 17th 🏠 —- Public Gallery is pleased to present Dolls’ House, an offsite duo exhibition of new works by Cece Philips and Rose Nestler, staging a dialogue around interiority, scale, and the gendered construction of domestic space. Taking place in a vacant pre-war apartment in New York, the exhibition introduces the dollhouse as a formal device and conceptual structure. Its apparent triviality, aligned with childhood and play, obscures its role as a disciplinary apparatus through which normative behaviors are rehearsed, encoding gendered relations within miniature worlds. ‘The Balcony’, 140x180cm, oil on linen

‘Fragment iii’ opened last week in Vienna @communegallery and so happy to have a small work included in this show ✨

So pleased to have my work ‘The Studio’ on show as part of ‘Seeds out of Line’ at Sixi Museum - which opened March 24th and runs until June 21st 🌻 Thank you to @sixi_museum for including my work alongside some wonderful artists! —- Sixi Museum is pleased to announce its upcoming group exhibition Seeds Out of Line, on view from March 24 to June 21, 2026. Marking the museum’s third anniversary, the exhibition brings together eight emerging and mid-career artists from China, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the Kingdom of Bahrain. In addition to works from the museum’s collection, the exhibition presents latest on-site creations by two Sixi resident artists. Working primarily in painting and sculpture, the artists explore intuitive and vital modes of expression shaped by intercultural dialogue, revealing a bold and unrestrained vitality. This is also the most touching scene that the Sixi Museum, as an art institution, can document. The participating artists are conceived as “seeds”—microscopic origins of life that contain infinite potential. Seeds Out of Line deliberately abandons predefined thematic frameworks, instead constructing an exhibition environment through a rhizomatic structure—decentered, multi-directional, and open to any trajectory. Visitors are invited to move freely through the galleries, encountering diverse artistic perspectives ranging from gender identity and digital landscapes to individual resilience under social pressure and contemporary interpretations of Eastern Zen thought. Like varied forms of plant life in a forest, the works radiate dynamic and shifting energies of inspiration. —— @lydiablakeley @ctlcheng @dorajeridi @matthewkrishanu @liwei_liuzhiyin @cecephilips @zaynqahtani @ritoedoardo

Studio lately ✍🏽

Very excited to have work at Frieze this week with @alminerech 🤍 ‘Interior with a Woman in Red’, 120x190cm, oil on canvas

Final week to see ‘Interior Motives’ @hauserwirth 🤍

‘Tending To (After Manet)’, oil on canvas, 120x190cm On view in ‘Interior Motives’ @hauserwirth 🪟

‘Interior Motives’ opening tonight 6-8pm at @hauserwirth ✨✨

The New York Times’ @tmagazine has a new series, Solo Show, where they ask Black artists to curate a list of three works that have deeply influenced their practice. For it, I interviewed the London-based artist @cecephilips , known for her large-scale oil paintings of interior scenes at nightfall. She tells me how Barkley L. Hendricks’s “What’s Going On” portrays “Black figures in a manner reminiscent of the large portraits of nobility at the National Gallery”; Walks me through her changing relationship with Edward Hopper; and explains the joys of setting her scenes at dusk. Read more at the link in bio.

The most beautiful place to spend the month of July. So grateful to @tac.residency for the time I had there researching, sketching, and painting some small works based off of the wonderful light that hits the house at the end of the day. Thank you so much @vitadifil and @vasopap for being the most incredible hosts🌞

Truly excited to be showing some new works in ‘Interior Motives’ at @hauserandwirth London opening August 22nd alongside @annakoak and @ding_shilun Special thank you to @isabellamaryblaze and the Hauser team for including my work alongside such incredible artists. —— Enter interior worlds imagined by contemporary painters Koak, Ding Shilun and Cece Philips this summer at Hauser & Wirth London. The exhibition explores how these artists engage with the interior both as a physical space and a psychological construct. Through distinct painterly vocabularies, each artist interrogates the architectural and domestic environments we inhabit, revealing how these frameworks shape our sense of self, memory and belonging. Opening reception Aug 22nd 6-8pm, the show will run until 20 Sept. Please do come if you’re in London! ✨

Details from ‘The Studio’ currently on view in ‘Camera Obscura’ at @public.gallery 📷 July 11 - Aug 6th —— Public Gallery is pleased to present 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢, a group exhibition featuring work by Lyndon Barrois Jr., John Miller and Richard Hoeck, Russell Perkins, Cece Philips, Taylor Simmons, and Tiffany Wellington, opening July 11, 6 — 8 pm. Engaging themes of theatricality, illusion, doubling and decoys, the exhibition probes the mechanics of image-making – its title referencing an optical device that functions by projecting an image that is both upside-down and reversed into a darkened chamber. Across a range of media, the artists in the exhibition destabilize fixed ways of seeing, playing on the slippages and subtle frictions between the real and replica, subject and surrogate.