Derrick Phillips Sr. is a mixed media artist and printmaker who lives and works in Lawrenceville, Ga right outside his hometown Atlanta, Ga. In 2000 Phillips received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a Concentration in Printmaking from Atlanta College of  Art. His art pays homage to the African American
experience, fatherhood and the Black Family.  
Phillips has had his work featured in numerous exhibitions in prominent galleries and museums such as Atlanta Collector: The Renaissance Continue Exhibition, African American Museum Dallas and LaGrange Art Museum 3rd Southeast Regional
Juried Exhibition were he was awarded the People’s Choice Award. In 2022 Phillips had 2 successful Solo exhibitions at Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Arts Clayton Gallery which he was awarded after receiving Best in Show in 2021 Juried Exhibition. His Award winning piece “From Whence Come Our
Help” is now part of the gallery’s permanent collection. His work is also the private collection of over 150+ collectors including Kevin Cole, Dameon & Kimberly Fisher and The High Museum Printmaking Collection. Also, currently on display at Avondale Marta Station is Phillips’s first public art commission piece titled “The Journey We Traveled” an 8ft-by-8ft mixed media wood assemblage. Phillips has apprentice under Kevin Cole and has assisted him on all of his major public and private commissions including the 1996 Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic
Mural and most recently the 55-foot-long installation for Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport “Soul Ties that Matter”.