Griff Williams (painter)
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San Francisco Art Institute (MFA)
- Pat Williams (father)
- Carol Williams (mother)
Griff Williams | |
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| Born | January 23, 1966 Butte, Montana, U.S. |
| Education | University of Montana (BFA) San Francisco Art Institute (MFA) |
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| Relatives | Whitney Williams (sister) |
Griff Williams (born January 23, 1966), is an American painter, publisher, art instructor, filmmaker, and gallerist.[1] He owns Gallery 16 art gallery. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including San Diego Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, New Langton Arts, Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Eli Ridgeway Gallery.[2] His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Frieze, Flash Art, SFAQ, and ArtNet.[3]
Griff Williams was born in Butte, Montana in 1966. His father, Pat Williams, was elected to the Montana House of Representatives, and his mother, Carol Williams, served as the first female majority leader in the Montana Senate. His sister is philanthropist Whitney Williams.[4][5]
Williams earned his BFA from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1984; and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.[1]
Career
In 1993, Williams founded Gallery 16 and Urban Digital Color in San Francisco, California.[6][7] The gallery has exhibited the works of many influential contemporary artists, including Margaret Kilgallen,[8] bell hooks, Paul Sietsema, Arturo Herrera, Rex Ray,[9] Michelle Grabner, Mark Grotjahn, and Ari Marcopoulos.[10]
Williams has been an instructor at the California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Mills College.[when?]
He has also designed and published dozens of books with the Gallery 16 Editions imprint. His recent books include The Gay Seventies: Hal Fischer (2019), the first monograph to feature the complete collection of works Hal Fischer produced in San Francisco's Haight and Castro neighborhoods in the 1970s. Published by Chronicle Books in 2020, his book on the life and artwork of the late San Francisco artist Rex Ray includes essays by Rebecca Solnit and Christian Frock.
