Keith Griffith

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About

Keith has been a multimedia artist since the mid-1980s, working across painting, paper art, furniture design and building, and sculpture. His work has appeared in small galleries in Columbus, OH, coffee shops in St. Louis, MO, and several venues around Seattle, WA, including Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk. He also spent over a decade at Seattle’s MOPOP (Museum of Popular Culture), moving from installation work to fabrication and eventually art direction and design, before retiring in 2018.

Museum Work at MOPOP

Exhibition History, 2007–2018

Over more than a decade at the museum, Keith worked in a range of capacities across dozens of exhibitions:

Art Director

Gelatine Lux, 2009
Spaced Out: The Final Frontier in Album Covers, 2009
Reflections: The Mary Wilson Supreme Legacy Collection, 2010
Hear My Train A Comin’: Hendrix Hits London, 2012
Block by Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture, 2014
Push Me, Pull Me: Pearl Jam and the Art of the Screen Printed Poster, 2015
Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, 2016
Holodome + Living Room, 2018
Pearl Jam: Home and Away, 2018

Designer

The Rolling Stones 1972 (Photographs by Jim Marshall), 2012

Fabricator

Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen, 2007
Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels, 2008
Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition, 2010

Installer

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, 2007
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, 2008
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, 2009
Taking Aim: Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographs Selected by Graham Nash, 2010

Traveling Installer

Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television, 2007

Project Manager

Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film, 2011
Icons of Science Fiction, 2012
Worn to Be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket, 2012
AC/DC: Australia’s Family Jewels, 2012
Women Who Rock: Passion Power Vision, 2013
The Art of Video Games, 2013
Spectacle: The Music Video, 2014
Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, 2015
Rebel, Princess, Jedi, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume, 2015
World of WearableArt, 2016
MARVEL: Universe of Super Heroes, 2018

MOPOP Room, Alexis Hotel, Seattle, 2012

Offsite installation, part of Keith’s museum work: he designed the layout and managed the installation of a MOPOP-themed room and adjoining hallway at the Alexis Hotel, large-format music photography and memorabilia throughout.