Cece Philips (b. 1996 in London, UK)  is a London-based painter whose luminous compositions explore ideas of spectatorship and voyeurism. Embodying the role and spirit of the flaneur, or flâneuse, her works draw on a multitude of sources, from the archive, film stills, found imagery, and memory she weaves together historical and contemporary influences to interrogate ideas of interiority, desire and loneliness. Framing is a recurring device in Philips’ paintings, though windows and doorways, barriers and veils are constructed to challenge an easy reading of her female protagonists. Palette, attention to light and space all lend psychological and narrative depth—details that lead us through and beyond the work, and activate the viewer’s own imagination. 

Philips received her MA in painting at Royal College of Art in 2023 where she was awarded the Fribourg Philanthropies Prize. Select solo exhibitions include Memories of the Future, Post Gallery Zurich, CH (2021); Between the Dog and the Wolf, ADA Contemporary, Accra, GH (2022); The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Peres Projects Berlin, DE (2022); Walking the In-Between, Peres Projects Seoul, KR (2023); and Conversations Between Two, Peres Projects, Milan, IT (2024). Select group shows have included Interior Motives, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK (2025); Camera Obscura, Public Gallery, London, UK (2025); Digestif, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, IT, (2024), and The Painted Room, curated by Caroline Walker, Grimm, Amsterdam, NL (2023). 

Source: Cece Phillips Website