RON GRIFFIN STUDIO
RON GRIFFIN
PO Box 4324
Culver City, California 90231
Email: rdeangriff@gmail.com
Born Ronald Dean Griffin, May 27, 1954 in Pomona, California
Lives and Works in Venice, California
EDUCATION
1988 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - MFA
1986 University of California, Irvine - BA, Summa cum Laude
1979 Hartnell College, Salinas, CA
1975-78 Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, CA
HONORS AND AWARDS
2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1986-88 J. Irvine Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1986-87 Georgia and Les Clark Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1984-86 Regent's Scholarship, University of California, Irvine Scholarship Competition
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 Los Angeles, California, as-is.la Gallery
2021 Los Angeles, California, as-is.la Gallery
2017 Culver City, California, MiM Gallery
2011 Alessandria, Italy, LVS Architecture/ART Gallery
2007 Santa Monica, California, Tarryn Teresa Gallery
2004 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
2003 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
2001 Ozanno Monf.to (AL) Italy, Borromini Arte Contemporanea
2000 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
1999 Los Angeles, Gallery Soolip
1999 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
1998 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
1990 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Milan, Italy, Osart Gallery
2023 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture-Ithra
2021 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Art Museum
2021 Val di Non, Italy, "A Line Made By Walking", Works by Ron Griffin, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton and Daniel Girardi
2021 St. Moritz, Switzerland, Hauser & Wirth
2021 Hollywood, California, Stars Gallery
2019 Lancaster, California, Lancaster Museum of Art and History
2019 Los Angeles, California, as-is.la Gallery
2018 Los Gatos, California, NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos
2017 Los Angeles, California, as-Is.la Gallery
2015 Perugia, Italy, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbra Civic Museum of Palazza della Penna, “The Perception of the
Future; The Panza Collection in Perugia"
2012 Milan, Italy, Galleria San Fedele: Tra Natura e Spirito. omaggio a Giuseppe Panza di Biumo
2011 Los Angeles, California, LA Mart
2010 Lugano, Switzerland, Cantonal Art Museum: The First Tribute to Giuseppe Panza of Biumo
2009 Culver City, California, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art: Abstraction in Reverse
2008 Culver City, California, Norma Desmond Productions: The Box
2008 Los Angeles, California, Pharmaka: Marks on Paper
2004 New York, NY, Sara Meltzer Gallery: Cleanliness
2003 New York, NY, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery: Pages
2003 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery: Paper
2002 Ozanno Monf.to (AL) Italy, Borromini Arte Contemporanea: Telling Stories
2001 Los Angeles, California, Double Vision Gallery
2001 Los Angeles, California, Double Vision Gallery Two Painters: Dawn Arrowsmith/Ron Griffin
2001 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery: New Work: L. A. Painting
2000 Los Angeles, California, Gallery Soolip: IQ Pop
2000 Los Angeles, California, Gallery Soolip: The Landscape
2000 Los Angeles, California, Museum of Contemporary Art: The Panza Collection and the Panza Gift
1999 San Francisco, California, Hosfelt Gallery
1998 Piacenza, Italy, Jelmoni Studio: Handmade
1997 Long Island City, NY, Fisher Landau Center: Wood Work
1997 Sa Llonja, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Espana: Colleccio’ Panza di Biumo
Anys 80 i 90
1997 Claremont, California, Montgomery Gallery, and Pomona College:
Collaboration/Transformation; Lithographs from the Hamilton Press
1997 Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d’ Art: La Donazione Panza di Biumo
al Museo Cantonale d’ Arte
1997 Santa Monica, California, Patricia Faure Gallery: Steve Keister, Jonathan Seliger, Ron Griffin
1996 Trento, Italy, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto:
The Panza di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80’s and 90’s
1996 Verona, Italy, Studio La Cittá: Painting as Object
1993 Los Angeles, California, Margo Leavin Gallery: Salad Days
1993 New York, New York, Galerie LeLong: With Light
1993 Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum: First Sightings
1993 Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum: Gala Centennial Celebration
1993 Mexico City, Mexico, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo: Selections from the Permanent Collection
1985 Fullerton, California, Muckenthauler Cultural Center: Expressions of the
Human Figure
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano, Switzerland
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Pomona, California
Ithra-King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz Opens 'Map and Territory, Environmental Art from The Panza Collection' Art Daily, July, 2021
Artifact and Fiction, by Peter Frank, LA Weekly Pick of the Week, Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Trailer Trash Finds its way into Painter’s Noir-inspired Art, Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, December 11, 2004
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Drive to Cluster, by Guy Bennett and Ron Griffin, ML&NLF Publishing, Piacenza, Italy
A Painter Finds Uncommon Depth in Flatness, by Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, March 29, 2003
Ron Griffin and Dawn Arrowsmith, by Elenore Welles, ArtScene, September, 2001
Memories of a Collector, by Giuseppe Panza, Abbeville Press, New York, 2007
Good Looking, by Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, September 20, 2000
JSM on ART: Excellence Exhilarates by Joan Simon Menkes, Beverly Hills 90210, March, 2000
National Reviews: Ron Griffin, by Ken Baker, Art News Magazine, October, 1999
Sculptures Made of Paint: Down-Home Abstraction by Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, June 12, 1999
Handmade: Accompaniment in two acts and intermission, NuovaLitoEffeEdizioni, Castelvetro Piacentino (Piacenza), Italy (In collaboration with A+M Bookstore, via Tadino 30, 200129 Milano, Italy)
Fatto a mano: confronto tra culture; Due artisti californiani e due piacentini alla “Jelmoni” by Natasha Barbieri, Liberta, Piacenza, Italy, April 7,1998
Gallery Watch by David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, Thursday, January 29, 1998
Griffin Polished But Wry, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, January 22, 1998
Colleccio’ Panza di Biumo Anys 80 i 90, Llonja, Govern Balear, Conselleria d’ Educacio, Cultura ¡Esports, Mallorca, Spain, 1997
La Donazione Panza di Biumo al Museo Cantonale d’ Arte, Museo Cantonale d’ Arte, Lugano, 1997
The Panza di Biumo Collection; some artists of the 80s and 90s, Electa Publishing, 1996
Art Pick of the Week: Sharon Ellis, Ron Griffin, & Pamela Goldblum; Goldblum/Kaisershot, LA Weekly, January 26 - February 1, 1990