Recent solo exhibitions include Comfort Inn at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Yard Sale at Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, and at Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy. The NYC Department of Education and the Public Art for Public Schools Program recently commissioned Phillips to install a large-scale mosaic at PS106. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and will be an artist in residence at Yaddo this June. Phillips is also a co-founder of TSA New York – a cooperative gallery, performance, and exhibition space. He is a Professor of Art at FIT in New York City.