Bd Griffith

BD Griffith experiments with basic tools in multiple media to pursue work that is simultaneously simple yet profound. His work is held in museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography, and Fort Wayne Museum of Art. He has exhibited widely, with 12 solo exhibitions including the Fresno Art Museum, HIgh Desert Museum, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, and Griffin Museum of Photography; numerous small-group shows including the Phoenix Art Museum and University of Arizona Museum of Art; and dozens of awards from America’s best art fairs. Griffith has been featured in Slate, Black & White, Arizona Highways, Photo District News, Diffusion, AZ Lifestyle, Phoenix New Times, and the Arizona Daily Sun.
Before becoming an artist, Griffith earned a degree in engineering and built a successful career with an international management consulting firm, but found his job unfulfilling and was troubled by the environmental impact of his clients. He ultimately resigned to follow his conscience. In order to pursue art full-time, he adopted a simple nomadic life, camping out of an old van and saving every dime for gas and supplies. When Griffith’s van broke down in Flags...

High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
"BD Griffith: Rethinking Fire"
Oct. 16–Jan. 9, 2021

Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
"BD Griffith: Watershed"
Aug. 25–Nov. 13, 2021

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
"BD Griffith: Rethinking Fire"
Feb. 1–Jun. 20, 2019

"145 Degrees Fahrenheit: Michael David, BD Griffith, Mitja Tusek, Hiro Yokose"
Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Sep. 21–Nov. 10, 2018

"BD Griffith: Rethinking Fire"
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
2017

"Contemporary Forum: David Emmitt Adams, Cristine Cassano, BD Griffith, Constance McBride, Mary Meyer"
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2017

"Fires of Change"
516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
2017

"Works on Paper"
Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2017