PHILIP COLBERT
Philip Colbert’s work combines existing master artworks from numerous periods with the various icons from the today’s social media.
One can see a method of appropriation there by the imageries of the brands such as Adidas and Coca Cola.
His painting itself is flat; however, because of its mixture of various elements, it consists of a pop-up image to create three dimensional space.
Colbert is described by Andre Leon Talley (a former chief editor of American Vogue) as “The godson of Andy Warhol”.
On the other hand Colbert calls himself as a self-righteous neo-pop surrealist by becoming the Lobster alter ego.
Furthermore he dotes on fried eggs and frequently makes them appear in his paintings.
Since 2017 Colbert started his activity seriously as a painter and achieved his first solo show at Saatch Gallery, London. He opened up a gigantic garage in the suburbs of London to absorb 12 employees working there.
Within a couple of years, starting from his full-scale productions he intensively executed major exhibitions in Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Taipei.
In March 2022, Colbert unveiled his groundbreaking community art project, “The Lobsters”. The project featured a collection of 7,777 unique lobster portraits, each one also serving as a citizenship card within Colbert’s digital metaverse. In this way Colbert’s lobster expanded exponentially.
Merging real-world outcomes with the online community, Colbert also forged a meaningful partnership with several UK-based Hatcheries dedicated to lobster research. Colbert has been actively engaged with his production by not only announcing NFT art but also real art to be exhibited at various museums and galleries including public space.
WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
1979 Born in Scotland 2004 Founded a fashion label “ Rodnik Band” in London
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2017 Solo Exhibition, “New Paintings” at Saatchi Gallery in London, UK 2018 Group Show, “Wavelength” at Power Long Museum in Shanghai, China 2018 First Solo Exhibition”New Paintings" in Japan at Galerie Nichido in Tokyo, Japan 2018 Solo Exhibition, “Hunt Paintings” at Saatchi Gallery in London, UK 2019 Solo Exhibition, “Hunt Paintings” at Saatchi Gallery in Los Angeles, USA 2019 Group Show at Art Fair Tokyo 2019 at Sho + 1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2019 Solo Exhibition, “Lobster Land” at Whitestone Gallery in Hong Kong 2019 Solo Exhibition, “Lobster Land” at Gallery Simon in Seoul, Korea 2019 Solo Exhibition, “Lobster Land” at Multimedia Fine Art Museum in Moscow, Russia 2020 Solo Exhibition,"Lobster Land" at Gallery Structura in Sofia, Bulgaria 2020 Solo Exhibition,"Lobster Land" at Patricia Low Contemporary in GSTAAD, Switzerland 2020 Solo Exhibition,"Lobster Land" at Whitestone Gallery in Taipei 2020 Solo Exhibition, “Lobsterpolis” at Saatchi Gallery in London, UK 2020 Group Show at Art TNZ, at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2021 Solo Exhibition "Lobster Land" at Sejong Museum in Seoul, Korea 2021 Group Show at Art Fair Tokyo 2021 at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2021 Solo Exhibition "Collaboration Paintings +" at Sho+1 in Tokyo, Japan 2022 Group Show at Art Fair Tokyo 2022 at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2022 Group Show at art stage OSAKA 2022 at Sho+1 booth in Osaka, Japan 2022 Lobstars in Venice, Venice Venice Hotel, Venice 2022 Lobster Wonderland, IFS, Changsha 2022 Lobstars in Saint Paul de Vence, De Buck Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence 2022 The Lobster Empire in Rome, Via Veneto, Rome 2022 The Lobster Empire in Rome, Museo di San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome 2022 Dreams of Lobsteropolis, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai 2022 Journey to the Lobster Planet, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa 2023 Philip Colbert Singapore Art Week, Saatchi Gallery, Singapore 2023 Lobsteropolis, Pearl Lam Galleries at M5 Gallery, Tokyo 2023 The Lobster Empire in Treviso, 21 Gallery, Treviso 2023 House of the Lobster - from Pompeii to Venice, Patricia Low Venezia, Venice
