Philip Taafe (1955) is a contemporary American artist currently living and working in New York, NY and West Cornwall, CT.

Taafe is best known for his process-based abstractions that meld iconography, design, art-historical motifs, and personal experience. “Taaffe’s paintings are built in complex layers, both technical and historical. The more one knows about his process, the more stupefying are the final results,” the poet Vincent Katz said of his work. “Each painting is an amalgam of different techniques and media—oil paint transferred from cardboard forms, acrylic stains, oil-based prints from linoleum blocks, scraping, scouring, photo-based silkscreen prints, collaged paper elements, and most recently, spooned acrylic swirls, and intricately cut and applied sheets of gold leaf.” Taaffe's practice revolves around the appropriation of works both by well-known artists, including Barnett Newman and Bridget Riley, and designs by anonymous artisans.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Luhring Augustine in Brooklyn, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, and numerous others. Works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Using a combination of processes including silkscreen, collage, linocut, and woodblocks, Philip Taaffe creates vibrant large-scale works that reference multiple cultures and traditional techniques. His current exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery Dubai is his first the Middle East. The show comprises recent pieces, including layered paintings that have been assembled using various forms and materials.