December 2, 2024
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine is exhibiting three new Koch oils in their exhibition Sol Invictus:The Return of Light Dec. 3 - Jan. 10, 2025. One of Koch's works included is Longview, oil on panel, 12 x 24 inches, 2024 (below).
August 31, 2024
Just delivered to Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE, seven new Koch oils. Above is Winter Sky, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches just after being unwrapped in the gallery.
July 26, 2024
Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD has acquired two works by Koch for its permanent collection. They were included in the recent exhibition Light: Paintings by Philip Koch. Both were created on location during some of Koch's residencies in the former studio of Edward Hopper on Cape Cod. Each one focuses on the well-known Cape Cod light flooding into the studio.
Edward Hopper's Truro Studio Bedroom, pastel, 14 x 7 inches, 2000.
Hopper Bedroom III, vine charcoal, 7 x 14 inches, 2012
July 14, 2024
Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA included two Philip Koch pieces from its Permanent Collection in the curated exhibition From Here to There. The show continues through Aug. 18, 2024. Pictured is one of the paintings, The Morning II, panel, 24 x 42.
May 27, 2024
Koch's talk on the exhibition of his work at Academy Art Museum on May 24 had a great crowd. The show features both very recent pieces as well as earlier paintings as well as selection of his preparatory charcoal drawings.
On the left Hope Island, oil on canvas, 28 x 56 inches, 2024
At the Artist Talk on May 24.
More of the larger pieces in the exhibition. On the left, The Voyage of Memory, oil on canvas, 38 x 38 inches, 2008. Middle, Winter, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 2022. Right, Northstar, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches, 2024.
April 25, 2024K
Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD is holding their exhibition Light: Paintings by Philip Koch April 11 - July 14, 2024. On Friday, May 24 there will be a public reception at 5 p.m. and an artist talk at 6 p.m. All are welcome. Admission to the museum is free. Pictured below is one of the works included in the show, Morning at Two Barns, oil on canvas, 36 x 54 inches, 2024.
January 15, 2024
Maier Museum of Art's Spring magazine features the museum's recent acquisition of Philip Koch's drawing Edward Hopper's Studio, Truro.
December 1, 2023
Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth, ME is having a curated exhibition The Mind's Eye: Turning Inward from Dec. 6 - Jan. 18, 2024. Koch's paintings Opening, oil on panel, 10 x 15 inches, 2023 and Kitchen Table, Truro Studio, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches, 2023 will be on display.
November 30, 2023
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME is showing Koch's paintings in their group exhibition Summer Finale 2023 through Dec. 30, 2023. One of the Koch's on display is Canopy, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, 2023.
September 20, 2023
Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE just hung new paintings by Philip Koch in their gallery. Here is Koch's oil Scarlet Forest II on the left, with a drawing by Jamie Wyeth of a pig on the far wall.
Last week Koch gave the annual endowed Visiting Artist lecture on his painting career at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, VA. The museum recently acquired a drawing by Koch that had been partly inspired by a painting in the museum's permanent collection, Edward Hopper's oil Mrs. Scott's House from 1942. Here is the Maier's Curator of Education Laura McManus with Koch and the Hopper.
August 29, 2023
The Sept/Oct issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine is out with this photo taken in June at the reception for Courthouse Gallery Fine Art's Bold Color exhibition. Here are gallery director Karin Wilkes with Philip Koch. They're standing with Koch's oil of Edward Hopper's former studio on Cape Cod.
August 12, 2023
Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, VA has invited Philip Koch to give the museum's annual endowed Outten Lecture on Sept. 13. 2023. Koch will trace some of the key influences that have shaped his painting career, including artists in the Maier's collection. Free and open to the public. 6pm Reception, 7pm lecture. Here's a link to the museum's announcement of the talk.https://maiermuseum.org/event/the-outten-visiting-artist-lecture-philip-koch/
July 4, 2023
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA hung Philip Koch's drawing Edward Hopper's Studio, Truro in their new exhibition Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection. The drawing was partly inspired by Maier's Edward Hopper oil Mrs. Scott's House from 1931. The museum installed the pieces in adjacent galleries so they can be seen simultaneously.
June 10, 2023
On Wed. June 7 Philip Koch along with Rick Fox and Philip Frey participated in a Zoom presentation about their paintings in the Bold Color exhibition at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME (June 12 - July 7, 2023).
Click to view the Zoom presentation
One of Koch's paintings in the exhibition is Ascension, oil on panel, 40 x 32 inches-
May 29, 2023
From June 12 - July 7, 2023 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine will hold a three artist exhibition Bold Color including a significant group of Koch oils. There will be a reception for the exhibit June 21, 5 - 7 p.m. One painting included in the show is September Cove, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, 2023.
May 4, 2023
A large group of Philip Koch's paintings will be included in a 3 artist exhibition June 12 - July 7, 2023 at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME. Koch will be attending the opening reception for the show Wednesday June 21, 5 - 7p.m. One of Koch's paintings included in the exhibition will be Canopy, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, 2023.
April 6, 2023
Koch's painting Truro Afternoon, oil on panel, 14 x 21, 2021 is displayed in the Members Exhibition at Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center in Nyack, NY (April 1-9, 2023). The painting was begun on location in Hopper's Cape Cod studio during one of Koch's residencies there. Hopper House produced a two minute video with Koch speaking about his painting- https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqoaCw4saRr/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet 
March 28,2023
Last weekend- Philip and his wife Alice (on left) with Anna Marley, head Curator at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Anna gave a personal tour of her major exhibition Making American Artists. Edward Hopper's oil from the exhibition in the background.
March 6, 2023
At Sommerville Manning Gallery last weekend, Philip Koch with his large painting The Reach IV hanging on the gallery walls with three Andrew Wyeth paintings. Says Koch "This is one of my all time favorite paintings. It's an honor for me to hang alongside Wyeth, an artist I have been admiring and studying ever since I started out as an art studen."
February 10, 2023
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College has acquired Koch's drawing Edward Hopper's Studio, Truro for their Permanent Collection. The drawing was inspired both by Koch's many residencies in the historic Hopper studio and by the 1932 oil Hopper painted Mrs. Scott's House that depicts a house a few hundred yards from Hopper's studio in Truro on Cape Cod.
September 15, 2022
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME has a new exhibition that includes a group of new Koch paintings. The show runs Sept. 7- Oct. 15, 2022. Among them are (top) Ascension , oil on canvas, 50 x 32 inches, and (bottom) Maine Islands, oil on panel, 7 1/2 x 17 inches.
August 6, 2022
Carl Little's review of Ogunquit Museum of American Art's exhibition Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams is in July/Aug issue of Art New England magazine. 
July 12, 2022
Ogunquit Museum of American Art made in Maine made a video (50 min.) of the public talk 6/28 about their exhibition Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams.
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/Qt8v5q6kiFc 
June 6, 2022
Maine's state wide paper, the Press Herald, published this photo of Ogunquit Museum's show of Koch's paintings on the front page of their second section June 4.
June 5, 2022
Writing in the Sunday Herald Press (Maine's state-wide newspaper) on 5/15/22 the paper's art critic Jose Arrango previewed the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's season:
"The summer schedule is ambitiously packed, but three shows concentrating on daring and unconventional modernist landscapes promise to be particularly interesting: “Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams” (now through July 19)..."
