CABLE GRIFFITH
EDUCATION
MFA Painting, University of Washington
BFA Painting, with Minor in Art History, Boston University
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2023 – Present Cornish College of the Arts, Associate Professor
2016 – 2023 Cornish College of the Arts, Assistant Professor
2014 – 2016 Cornish College of the Arts, Interim Core Faculty, Senior Year
Coordinator
2013 – 2014 Cornish College of the Arts, Adjunct Art Faculty
2003 – 2007 Kirkland Arts Center, Instructor
2004 – 2007 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Instructor
2002 – 2003 University of Washington, Lecturer
PROFESSIONAL EXPIRENCE
2022 – Present Cornish College of the Arts, Department Co-chair
2016 Peoples’ Institute NW: Undoing Racism Workshop
2010- 2014 Cornish College of the Arts, Exhibitions Curator 2016
2011 – 2014 Neddy at Cornish Artist Fellowship Program, Associate Program Director
2010 – 2014 SOIL Artist-run Gallery, Member
2007 – 2010 Kirkland Arts Center (KAC), Exhibitions Director
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 We followed the trail until we disappeared (solo), Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020 Precarious Utopias (solo), Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 Seattle Art Fair (Linda Hodges Gallery) , Seattle, WA
2019 Cable Griffith: A Review, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2017 This, That, and Everything (solo), G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle
2015 Sightings (solo), G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Dispose( );, Brent Watanabe with Cable Griffith, Spokane Falls Community College
2015 Coded Landscapes (with Sarah Teasdale), Vermillon, Seattle
2014 Domestic Landscapes (solo), Two Shelves, Seattle, WA
2014 Brad Ewing & Cable Griffith, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Quest (solo), G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start (solo) Kittredge Gallery, UPS, Tacoma, WA
2013 FlotsamJetsamLagan: The Oneness (solo), SOIL Gallery
2011 Islands (with Susanna Bluhm), SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Drawings and Paintings, OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Cable Griffith/Garek Druss, Some Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 New Works, MPSR Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2022 Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2021 Goodwitch/Badwitch, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA
2020 Organic, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2020 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 Seattle Art Fair, (Linda Hodges Gallery), Seattle, WA
2019 Bellingham National 2019, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2019 Escapism from L.A., SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Bellwether Exhibition, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2018 Thick as Thieves, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Seattle Art Fair (G. GIbson Gallery), Seattle, WA
2018 Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint, CoCA, Seattle, WA
2017 Making Our Mark, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2017 Here’s to the Future, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Push Play, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 Digital Soft, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2016 NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, Scotland
2016 The Future is Now, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2016 American Painting Today, V2, Seattle, WA
2016 Winter Gymnastics, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 ENVIRONS, Occasional Gallery, Burlington, WA
2015 Observing Observing (a White Cup), Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Slow Enhancers, Season Gallery, Seattle WA
2015 DWELL, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Game: Art: Architecture, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Bellingham National 2015, Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
2014 NEPO 5K Don’t Run 2014
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Seattle (with G. Gibson Gallery)
2013 A Selection of Gallery Artists, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2013 Zwischerliecht, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 BlackGreyWhite, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2013 Cascadia, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2012 Aqua Art Fair,(SOIL Gallery), Miami Beach, FL
2012 Obstructed Views, Prudential Building, Seattle, WA
2011 Aqua Art Fair,(SOIL Gallery), Miami Beach, FL
2011 Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2011 Skattershot: The Artists of SOIL, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
2010 Materializing Nature, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
2010 Vs. The Matador, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2010 Stories, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle
2010 Xanadu: A Stately Pleasure Dome, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2010 SOIL: Then/Now, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle New Members’ Show, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2010 SOIL at ACT, ACT Theater, Seattle
2010 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle
2010 Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, Monarch Contemporary, Seattle
2010 SOIL in Residence, Seattle Design Center, Seattle
2009 Land(e)scape, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2009 Dualities, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle
2008 Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle
2007 The Blogger Show, Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh
2007 The Blogger Show, Agni Gallery, New York City
2007 NW Annual Art Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle
2007 Faculty Exhibit, Pratt Fine Arts Center Gallery, Seattle
2006 On the Edge, Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2006 Group Show: 2006, Gallery on the Green, Pawling, NY
2004 Faculty Exhibit, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
SELECT COLLECTIONS
PORT OF SEATTLE
CITY OF SEATTLE
LUCAS COUNTY, OH
SOUND TRANSIT
WEYERHAEUSER
VULCAN, INC
ONE REEL
MICROSOFT
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, & RESIDENCIES
2023 Viewlands Elementary Mural Commission, Seattle, WA
2022 Seattle City Light - Temporary Art Installation Commission, Seattle, WA
2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Architectural Award (first place)
2021 Glass City Convention Center Commission (Toledo, OH)
2020 Downtown Redmond Station Commission (Redmond, WA)
2019 U-District Target Entry Murals (Seattle, WA)
2016 City Arts Winter Art Walk Award (Seattle, WA)
2016 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Concourse C Transit Station Commission
2014 Contemporary Northwest Art Award Nominee, Portland Art Museum
2009 PONCHO Merit Award
2008 Brink Award Nominee, Henry Art Gallery
2008 4Culture Individual Project Award
2007 Runner-up Best in Show, NW Annual Art Competition, Phinney Neighborhood Center, Seattle, WA
1999 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Susan Robb: SKYPE SKUPLT STUDIO, Cornish Main Gallery
2012 Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers come again, Cornish Main Gallery,
2012 Jon Gierlich: Currents, Cornish Main Gallery
2011 SuttonBeresCuller: Work in Progress, Cornish Main Gallery
2011 Game Theory, Cornish Main Gallery
2011 Show and Tell, Cornish Main Gallery
2010 Vs. The Matador, SOIL Gallery, 2010
2010 STEAMBOT (with Genevieve Tremblay), Kirkland Arts Center
2010 Brian Gillis: NO!, Kirkland Arts Center
2010 KAC Links Invitational, Kirkland Arts Center
2009 False Proof, Kirkland Arts Center
2009 Dimensional Invention, Kirkland Arts Center
SELECT LECTURES
2017 Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint (Panel Discussion), CoCA, Seattle, WA
2017 The Northwest Five Painting Colloquium, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA,
2015 Cable Griffith & Brent Watanabe, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA,
2015 The Digital Age Landscapes of Cable Griffith, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA,
2015 5Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
2014 Art & Science Salon, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2014 Contemporary Landscape, Yard Work, Portland, OR
2013 Keene State College, Keene, NH
2013 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2013 Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2012 Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2012 Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
2010 Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2010 Contained Space, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2010 Projections, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Dimensional Invention, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Inglemoor High School, Kirkland, WA
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
SELECT PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
Matthew Kangas, “Bellingham National Juror Bruce Guenther Sees Nature In Peril”, Preview, February 2019
Gayle Clemans, “CoCA’s group show demonstrates the continued power of painting”, The Seattle Times, June 2018
Gary Faigin, “Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet”, The Seattle Times, September 2017
Cable Griffith, “Artist’s Talk”, Two Coats of Paint, September 2017
Cable Griffith, “Landscape in Seattle: Cable Griffith talks to Peter Scherrer”, Two Coats of Paint, May 2017
Amanda Manitach, Cable Griffith: “Sightings” at G. Gibson Gallery, Art Ltd. Magazine, March, 2016
Ben Gannon, “Cable Griffith’s Sightings: On Hope and the New Frontier”, Dimensions Variable, January 2016
Tamar Benzikry-Stern “Grade and Griffith to Create Art for Sea-Tac”, 4Culture, December 2015
Jim Demetre, “Painter Cable Griffith Unveils New Works at G. Gibson Gallery”, Seattle Magazine, December 2015
Elissa Favero, “Home is Where I Want to Be: Dwell at G. Gibson Gallery”, July 2015
Matthew Kangas, “Critic’s Picks: 2014 Top Ten Lists”, Art Ltd. Magazine, January 2015
Jake Uitti, “An Interview with Cable Griffith”, The Monarch Review (themonarchreview.org), 3/11/14
Erin Langer, “The Quest of a Painterly World: Q and A with Cable Griffith”, New American Paintings (newamericanpaintings.com/blog), February 2014
Matthew Kangas, “Cable Griffith @ G. Gibson”, Visual Art Source (visualartsource.com), February, 2014
Jen Graves, “The Stiff Shadows of Cable Griffith”, The Stranger’s Slog (slog.thestanger.com), 2/7/14