Cable Griffith: August 2009

EDUCATION 
 
2000 – 2002  MFA – Painting 
 
 
University
1993 – 1997  BFA – Painting, with minor in Art History 
 
 
Boston
 
SOLO AND TWO‐PERSON EXHIBITIONS 
 
2011   
Islands
Paintings and Drawings (solo), OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA 
2008   
Cable
2005   
Cable
  
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
 
2011   
SOIL Gallery, Aqua Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL 
Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, Washington State Convention Center,   
Seattle, WA 
 Skattershot: The Artists of SOIL, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 
2010       
 Materializing Nature, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA 
                   
 Vs. The Matador, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 
                    
 Stories, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA 
                     
Xanadu, A Stately Pleasure Dome, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 
                    
SOIL: Then/Now, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA 
                     
New Members’ Show, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 
                     
SOIL at ACT, ACT Theater, Seattle, WA 
                     
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle, WA 
                     
Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA 
                     
SOIL in Residence, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA 
2009               Land(e)scape, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA  
                    
Dualities, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA  
2008               Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA  
2007               The Blogger Show, Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA  
                     
The Blogger Show, Agni Gallery, New York, New York  
                     
NW Annual Art Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA  
                     
Faculty Exhibit, Pratt Fine Arts Center Gallery, Seattle, WA  
2006               On the Edge, Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, WA  
                     
Group Show: 2006, Gallery on the Green, Pawling, NY  
2004   
 Faculty Exhibit, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA  
2002   
MFA exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA  
 
COLLECTIONS 
 
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE 
 
2003 – 2007  Drawing and Painting Instructor, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
2004 –
2003   
Painting I & II (Visiting Lecturer), University of Washington, Seattle 
2002   
Foundations
2001 – 2002  Foundations Drawing (solo TA position), University of Washington, Seattle 
2000 – 2001  Foundations Drawing Intern, University of Washington, Seattle 
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 
 
2010 –
2011 – present  Associate Director of the Neddy at Cornish, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
2007 – 2010  Exhibitions Director, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
 
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS 
 
2011   
Adriana
Joey Veltkamp, “Strange New Islands by Bluhm and Griffith”, New American Paintings  
Blog (newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com), 9/21/11. 
Jen Graves, “Cable Griffith’s Video Game Landscapes, The Stranger’s SLOG  
(slog.thestranger.com), 9/12/11. 
 
 
Rachel Simp, “Ogygia: Susanna Bluhm and Cable Griffith”, City Arts Magazine,  
September Issue. 
Cable Griffith, “The Intention of Chance” (Game Theory Exhibition Essay), Cornish  
College of the Arts. 
2010   
Cable Griffith, “STEAMBOT” (Exhibition Catalog Introduction), Kirkland Arts Center. 
 
 
Cable
(Exhibition Essay), Kirkland Arts Center. 
Cable
Adriana Grant, “Design Colony”, Seattle Weekly, 5/19 
2009   
Bond
10/28. 
 
 
Carrie
Reporter, 10/22. 
 
 
The
2007   
Lissa Brennan, “The Blogger Show”, Pittsburg City Paper, 12/20. 
 
 
Regina
2006   
Regina Hackett, “Bennett's chairs romp through the ages at BAM,” Seattle, P‐I, 8/17.  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 
 
2009   
PONCHO Merit Award  
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 
 
CURATING 
 
2011   
SuttonBeresCuller: Work in Progress, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
Game
Show and Tell: Objectivity, Cornish Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
2010   
Vs. the Matador, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 
Steambot, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
Brian
Center, Kirkland, WA 
KAC Links Invitational, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
2009   
False Proof, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA  
                         Dimensional Invention, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
  
ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES 
 
2011                Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
2010   
New Members Show Artists’ Talk, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 
2009                Projections, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 
Contained Space, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 
                         Dimensional Invention, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA  
2007                Inglemoor High School, Kenmore, WA   
2006                Kirkland Public Library, Kirkland, WA  
1999                Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT  
 
COMMITTEE, JURY, AND PANEL POSITIONS 
 
2011– present  Art Department Chair Search Committee, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
2011 –
2011 – present  Staff Council Member, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 
2009
2010   
Henry Art Gallery/Artist Trust: Artist Resource Panel, with Sara Krajewski and 
Elizabeth
(Seattle Art Museum) 
Juror, City Arts Best of Artwalk Awards 
Juror, Bellevue Arts Museum, Carol Duke Awards of Excellence, Bellevue, WA 
Juror,
2009   
Juror, Kittitas County Juried Exhibition, Kittitas County, WA 

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

New painting in Land(e)scape at SOIL Gallery