Phil Rabovsky

Graduate Seminar III

Born in Moscow and raised in rust belt Upstate New York, Phil Rabovsky (b. 1987) thinks of his practice as "observational paintings of the contemporary netherworld." He received his BA in art and philosophy from Columbia University and his MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts. A member of Shoestring Press in Brooklyn, he has participated in two-person shows with Shoestring's master printer Lane Sell. His first solo show, Venticento, opened at Van Der Plas Gallery on the Lower East Side in 2018. He launched his podcast Capital A: Unauthorized Opinions on Money, Art, and Everything in 2019. A refugee of the Soviet apocalypse, Phil has lived in Rochester, Budapest and Brooklyn, and currently splits his time between New York and Santiago de Chile. A lover of languages, he speaks Russian, English, Hungarian and Spanish.