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Phillip Toledano: I was born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father.
I am a conceptual artist: Everything starts with a idea. The themes of my work are primarily socio-political, although lately I’ve strayed into the deeply personal.
The idea determines the execution. Consequently, my work varies in medium, from photography to installation, sculpture to painting.
My first book, entitled “Bankrupt” (Photographs of recently vacated offices) was published by Twin Palms in 2005. The second book, ‘Phonesex’ (again by Twin Palms) came out in December of 2008. My third, Days with my father, was published by Chronicle, and was released in June of 2010. The rights for ‘Days’ have been optioned to be a movie. A fourth book: ‘A new kind of beauty’ (Portraits of people who have recreated themselves through plastic surgery) was published by Dewi Lewis, and released in the autumn of 2011.
Solo exhibitions
2012 Irish National Folk Art Gallery, Days with my father
2012 Paul Kopeikin gallery, A new kind of beauty
2012 Perth Centre for Photography, A new kind of beauty
2011 Gallery 339, A new kind of beauty
2011 Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Days with my father
2010 Klomp Ching gallery, A new kind of beauty
2010 Gallery 339, Days with my father
2009 Hous projects, America the gift shop
2009 The center for photography at Woodstock, America the gift shop
2006 Colette, The Other side of America
2004 Annina Nosei, Bankrupt
Group Shows
2012 Ullens center for contemporary art, Bejing, Beyond words: Photography in the New Yorker
2012 Vögele Kultur Zentrum, D.E.F.E.N.C.E. A Consideration of Various Strategies in biology, politics, economy, technology, military, psychology, society and culture
2011 Winkelman gallery, Corporations are people too
2011 Eastman House, The unseen eye
2011 Pictura Gallery, Man Made
2011 Gallery 339, About Face
2011 Klomp Ching gallery, Exposed
2010 Descubrimientos photoespana
2010 Gallery 339, In Review
2010 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, All my lovin’
2010 Hous projects, The naked truth
2010 Photographic Center Northwest, EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009
2010 Doswell Gallery, Bittersweet-Expressions of love and hate
2010 Hous projects, Versus
2009 Randall Scott Gallery, Unseen
2008 University of USF Contemporary Art Museum, Audience & Avatar
2008 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Just how does a patriot act?
2008 Photobiennale of Thessaloniki, Places and manners of worship
2008 Miami Art Space, Hexagone
2006 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Public, Private
2006 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, American Eden
2006 Parallel Lines, See
2006 Gild, Kaleidoscope
2005 Eyestorm Gallery
2005 Robert Miller, AI
2004 Annina Nosei
2003 Paul Morris
Festivals
2012 BredaPhoto International photo festival, homo empathicus
2012 Singapore Fringe art festival, Art and the faith
2012 Fotofreo International Festival of Photography, Australia
2011 FotoNaarden, The Netherlands
2010 FotoGrafia. International festival, Rome
2010 Fotoleggendo Festival, Rome
2010 GETXOPHOTO, Barcelona
2010 Singapore Fringe art festival, Art and the law
2010 Fotofestiwal 2010, All my lovin’
2009 Singapore Fringe art festival, Art and Family
2008, BAC! International Festival of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
2008 Athens Photo Festival, Faith
2007 Rhubarb, England
2007 Noorderlicht, Holland
2007 Lianzhou International Photo festival, China
Collections
The Houston museum of fine art
The University of South Florida contemporary art museum
Books
2011, A new kind of beauty, Dewi Lewis
2010, Days with my father, Chronicle
2008 Phonesex, Twin Palms
2005 Bankrupt, Twin Palms
Select Publications:
Aperture
Ojodepez
Eyemazing
Orion
Hayden’s ferry review
Rear View Mirror
Rooms
Zoom
Raw
IdeaFixa
Harpers
The British Journal of Photography
La Republica
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