CURRICULUM VITAE
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Arizona
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 World Forestry Center Discovery Museum, Portland, Oregon
2021 High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon
2021 Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
2019 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
2017 Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona
2016 Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
2016 Central Gallery, Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix, Arizona
2015 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts
2013 Flagstaff Photography Center, Flagstaff, Arizona
2012 Galerie BMG, Woodstock, New York
2012 Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, China
2012 Flagstaff Photography Center, Flagstaff, Arizona
2011 Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2011 Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado
SELECT AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Flagstaff Arts Council Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in the Visual Arts
2019 Arizona Commission on the Arts Opportunity Grant
2016 Phoenix Art Museum Contemporary Forum Artist Grant
2016 Flagstaff Arts Council Viola Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts
2016 Arrow Five Years Out Art Challenge $5000 Finalist Award to develop proposed new work
2014 Flagstaff Arts Council artist grant for Fires of Change, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
2013 Flagstaff Arts Council Viola Award Finalist
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 In the Absence of Color, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2018 Out of 145 Degrees: Bryan David Griffith, Michael David, Hiro Yokose, and Mitja Tusek, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2017 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
2017 Fires of Change, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2017 Works on Paper, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2016 Fires of Change, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2016 Southwestern Invitational, Phoenix Airport Museum and Coconino Center for the Arts, Arizona
2016 Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2015 Fires of Change, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
2015 All Art Arizona, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2015 Southwestern Invitational, Prescott College Gallery, Tubac Center for the Arts, and Yuma Arts Center, Arizona
2014 INFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
2014 Approaching the Unreal, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, California
2014 Altered Views, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
2014 The National: Contemporary Photography 2014, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2013 Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2013 Extended Photography, Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts
2013 Christina Z. Anderson, Bryan David Griffith, and Michael Puff, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2012 Processes & Dreams, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 Crossing Territories, Wall Space, Santa Barbara, California and Wall Space, Seattle, Washington
2012 Alternative Process, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2012 Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2011 PhotoAlchemy, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
SELECT COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Robert Morris College, Peoria, Illinois
Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon
Visual Chronicle of Portland, City of Portland, Oregon
Springfield Civic Purchase Collection, Springfield, Illinois
Wisconsin Education Association Trust, Madison, Wisconsin
Governor's Art Awards, Arizona Citizens for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
Janus Capital Student Art Buying Program, Denver, Colorado
Evans Army Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado
Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
Casey Health Institute, Gathersburg, Maryland
Arrow Electronics, Denver, Colorado
Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco, California
Avfuel Corp., Ann Arbor, Michigan
Albrecht & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio
VOA Architecture & Design, Chicago, Illinois
Herring & Trowbridge Architects, Herndon, Virginia
Urban Design Associates, Ltd., Scottsdale, Arizona
The Chalk Hill Winery, Healdsburg, California
Wrymark Inc., Maryland Heights, Missouri
EDUCATION
BSE, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Commencement Speaker, College of Engineering
Arlan Hellsworth Award for outstanding student leader
Wyeth B. Allen Award for outstanding character and achievement
Site Leader, University of Michigan Project SERVE, Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota
President, Alpha Pi Mu honor society
Co-Vice President, Tau Beta Pi honor society
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Davis, Lorraine Ann. “Bryan David Griffith: Searching Within”, Black & White, Dec. 2016
Young, Amy. “Art in the Valley: Three Must-Know Artists”, AZ Lifestyle, Dec. 2016, pp. 182-187
Muller, Seth. “Griffith: Speaking Volumes”, Arizona Daily Sun, Sept. 18, 2016, pp. B1,B6
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Monoyios, Kalliopi. “Science Art Exhibits in 2016: Early Edition”, Scientific American, Dec. 29, 2015
Peiffer, Rebecca. “Fires of Change Exhibit Brings Illumination”, UA News, December 2, 2015
Markgraf, Diandra. “Burn is Beautiful”, Flagstaff Live!, vol. 21 issue 38, Sept. 2015, cover
James, Christopher. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Third Edition, Cengage Learning, 2015, p. 307
Feeney, Mark. "Photo Shows at Griffin Focus on Mississippi and Books", Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 2015
"Images that Speak", Harvard Magazine, Jan.–Feb. 2015
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