2025 virtual Cohort
Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025
Mondays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Matt Phillips
Artist
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Matt Phillips, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
This cohort will present their exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea, December 4-6, 2025. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, view
past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Matt Phillips' Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Jackie Gendel
Guest Artist
Sky Glabush
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Jason Stopa
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Catherine Haggarty
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Rob Dimin
Visiting Critic
DIMIN Gallery
Alex Allenchey
Visiting Critic
Associate Director at CHART
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Matt Phillips
Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works often employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
