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Griff received his MFA in 1992 from the San Francisco Art Institute. His artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe including exhibitions at Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, and the San Diego Museum of Art. His artwork has been reviewed internationally including Art in America, ArtForum, and Artweek.
Griff helped develop the pioneering fine art digital printmaking workshop Urban Digital Color and he created Gallery 16 Editions, a collaborative editions program, which for ten years has produced artist books, print editions, and multiples.
Over 800 works have been published with artists including Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, Adam Lowe, William Kentridge, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, bell hooks, Ann Chamberlain, Elliot Anderson, Carol Selter, Rebeca Bollinger, Stefan Kirkeby, Rex Ray, Margaret Kilgallen, Stephen Hendee, David Perry, Barry Gifford, Rudy VanderLans.
Gallery 16 to date has presented of over 180 exhibitions involving 235 artists. Griff has organized and instructed over 40 artist workshops focusing on artists using contemporary media.
Selected Exhibitions
2005
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Structured Tier of Resemblences
Suburban, Oak Park, IL Griff Williams and Chris Finley
Oakland Art Gallery, Playful Poetics, curated by Sherri Apostol
2004
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA Neo Mod: Recent Californa Abstraction
Scope Art, Miami, Fl
ArtLA, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA Mark: Contemporary Drawing
2002
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA I-5 Rediscovered
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Selections from Gallery 16
2001
Galerie Claude Deby, Brussels, Belgium
1999
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
White Columns, New York, NY
1998
Galerie Claude Deby, Brussels, Belgium
1997
Lutz Tuetloff Gallery, Berlin, Germany New Works
1995
Richard Heller Gallery, opening exhibition, multiples gallery Greatest Hits
TRI Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, DC
Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA Sideshow
1994
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Radius, San Jose, CA Object Works
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Drawing First
1993
WPA, Washington, D.C. At Odds
Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Holter Museum, Helena, MT ANA
Selected Conferences and Lectures
2004
San Francisco Art Institute, Art and Technology Series: Griff Williams
2002
Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Performing Arts, High Tech/Low Tech: Griff Williams, Alan Rath, Catherine Wagner.
Foothills College, Department of Fine Art, Graduate Lecture
2001
SFMOMA, Fotoforum, Contemporary Printmaking Practices: Sandra Phillips, Danni Hobson, Griff Williams
2000
California College of Arts and Crafts, Graduate Lecture
University of Montana Fine Art Department, Griff Williams and Peter Koch: New Forms of Typographic Printmaking
1999
SFMOMA You Are Here: Locating the state of Non profit and Alternative Spaces, panelists included, Jim Melchert, Gail Wight, Griff Williams, Glen Helfand, Stephanie Syjuco.
Oakland Museum of Art, What is Art For? A conversation with Artists, Gallerists and Collectors, panelists included, Rena Bransten, William Wiley, Kent Logan, Griff Williams
1998
Artmakingbookmakingart, conversations about artists books with artists from the San Francisco Art Institute. Panelists: Manual Neri, Linda Connor, May Castleberry/Whitney Museum, William Wiley, Ann Chamberlain, Griff Williams
Mills College, Conversation with Michelle Grabner, Griff Williams, and Hung Liu: discussion of contemporary art climate
Collaboration and the Digital Print: Contemporary Practices in Printmaking, panelists included Kathan Brown, Sandra Phillips, Jon Cone, Bill Jones, Henry Wilhelm, Griff Williams
1996
Define Digital conference on the use of computer based technology in art making. Panelists include: Mark Petr of SJMA, Griff Williams, Brian Smith
1994
Congressional Hearing on the future of the National Endowment for the Arts. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. Panelists include Nayland Blake, Philip Horovitz, Griff Williams
Contact:
griff@urbandigitalcolor.com
(415) 626-7495
