Born in Kuala Lumpur, 1969 
Lives and works in London


Education
1994
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

1993
BA Fine Art, sculpture, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

1989
Foundation Course, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, UK


Solo Exhibition
2023
For Caution, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong

2021
Drunken Sailor, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2018
In the Half Life, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Spinning (with Peter Robinson), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand

2016
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2014
Besides, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

2012
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2009
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Introduction and Jargon, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2008
Open Container, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany

2007
A Metal Bar Fell on Someone's Head or Something, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Free to Meet For Coffee Sometime Soon, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2000
His Divine Grace, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

1997
Phillip Lai, The Showroom, London, UK (commissioned by The Showroom in collaboration with inIVA)


Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Transposition 1: Observing the Walking Patterns, Whistle, Seoul, South Korea

2023
Modern Art, Paris, France
Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Ubiquitous no.14, Tube Gallery, Palma, Spain

2022
Water Being Washed Away, curated by Alessandro Rabottini, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
SSSSSSSSSCULPTURESQUE, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Testament, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK

2021
L’acqua, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2019
Yona Lee, Phillip Lai, Hany Armanious, Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia

2018
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
Spinning (with Peter Robinson), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand
Fences & Windows, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2017
one second ago, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

2016
Theories of Modern Art, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Can I Step on It?, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
When Did Intimacy Begin Width, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY, USA

2015
An Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton University, Southampton, UK

2014
Interior, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2012
London Twelve, City Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

2010
No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents (Mousse contribution, curated by Jonathan Griffin), Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London, UK

2008
Seven Times Two or Three, Cubitt, London, UK

2007
Republic - L’est, London, UK
In the Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love, Overgaden, Institute for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2006
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
John Frumism, Phillip Lai, Paul Thek, Mike Nelson, Hotel, London, UK
The Triumph of Painting, Part 6, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
If It Didn't Exist You'd Have To Invent It: A Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London, UK

2005
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, CCA, Glasgow, UK
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London Tannery Arts Exhibition, part of Artists Studios Open Weekend, Tannery Arts, London, UK

2004
Uscita Pistoia, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Strange Weather, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Tag Team Experiment, two-person relay exhibition, alternative project space, Edinburgh, UK

2003
Drawing One Hundred, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2002
We Want Out, CityLights Project, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2000
Senselessness-lessness, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death Race 2000, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY, USA
Drawing Exhibition, Herefordshire College of Art & Design, Hereford, UK

1999
Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Black Box, Angel Row, Nottingham; Artezium, Luton, UK
New Video from Great Britain, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

1998
Black Box, Open Eye, Liverpool; Lift, London; Aspex, Portsmouth; ARC, Stockton-on-Tees, UK
New Video from Great Britain, MoMA, New York, NY, USA
Bed and Workshop, alternative space, Rennes, France
Grey Area, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

1996
Deep Signal, Gasworks, London, UK
Deep Signal, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Off Camp/On Base (Pimple Life), Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo, Japan
I beg to differ, Milch, London, UK
Update 96, The Old Turbine Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995
Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London
Fresh, Video Positive 95, Liverpool; Tate, London, UK

1994
Weirdos, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fresh, ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Miniatures, The Agency, London, UK
No Vacancies, alternative venue, Frankfurt, Germany


Collections
Tate, London, United Kingdom
Arts Council Collection, London, United Kingdom Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom Goss-Michael Foundation, USA
Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
La Colección Jumex, Mexico
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China