Education         

2001 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art  Sculpture, Bloomfield Hills, MI          
1994 B.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art  Painting, Baltimore, MD

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Chirk, Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Triple Vision, Rory Devine Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Microfictions, Prjct LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Divisions, Soraya Art Gallery, CalState Northridge, Northridge, CA
2020 Installation/Sculpture, Brandstader Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
2019 Perforations, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Margaret Griffith, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
2014
New Sculpture and Foil Works on Paper, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
American Place, Vertigo, Denver, CO
2013 Permanence as Fiction, New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura, CA
2012 Installation, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Local Intersections,  Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Corners,  Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Nets,  Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Drawings,  Haus Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Two-Three Person Exhibitions

2019 Sculpture: Margaret Griffith and Ann Weber, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Repeat, Jamison Carter and Margaret Griffith, Rock Creek Helzer Gallery, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 No Touching, Terminal C Vi Smith Gallery, John Wayne Airport, CA
2022
Magically Thinking, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
LASCAPE, PrjctLA, Los Angeles, CA
Let Me Talk, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
Paper Duets, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi, India
2019
Open Space, Backspace LA, Los Angeles, CA
Transformed: Paper in Dimension, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Borderlands, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA 
2018
Paperworks Refolded, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
Fractal, Citrus College Visual Arts Gallery, Citrus, CA
2017
Lines Drawn, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Sur Biennial 2017, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2016
Cut Up/Cut Out, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA,*National Traveling Exhibition 2017-2020
Plus One, Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2015
Paperworks, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Oasis, Sturt Haaga Gallery, La Canada Flintridge, CA
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles, Venezia, Italy
2014
Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
11th Anniversary Show, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Paper, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Big Mess,  Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
VA Ders,  Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Obscured Lines: Contemporary Drawing in Los Angeles, LA Valley College, CA
Telephone, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Laws of Attraction, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Welcome to Anywhere: Southern California Abstraction, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2010
Venn Diagram, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Amalgam,Cabrini Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, curated by John O’Brien
2009
Sweet Subversives, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Rebus, Museo Archeologico di Amelia, Amelia (TERNI), Italy, organized by John O'Brien & Cielo Pessione
Sizeable, Fluxco Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fourth of July, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles
White Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shock and Awe, Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2008-9 At The Brewery Project, 1993-2007: The Finale Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008 Luscious Abstractions Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2007
Evidence 12 Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Nice Work If You Get It Rio Hondo College Gallery, Whittier, CA
W.O.P. The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
HAUS Guests The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Major Drawings Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show  Mor York Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005         
New Slang  Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Eye Tow 3 from Cranbrook  Newspace@Twentieth, Los Angeles, CA
2004        
Observations  Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Water Media Traditional/Experimental  Manhattan Beach Creative Art Center,  Manhattan Beach, CA      
Skin Thin  Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Now Here  The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Pulp  Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress, CA, curated by Carl  Berg
Drawings  Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
         

Bibliography

Ezhra Jean Black, "Witness Trees, Melting Gates, and Quiet Breathing, Artillery Magazine, March 18, 2022.
Genie Davis, "Let Me Talk", Artillery Magazine, March 3, 2022.
Genie Davis, "Three Years and Seven Artists at Castelli Art Space", Art and Cake, July 5, 2019.
Lorraine Heitzman, "Sculpture: Margaret Griffith and Ann Weber", Art and Cake, March 3, 2019.
Dave Barton, "Satiate your midsummer origami cravings at Brea Gallery's 'Paperworks Refolded', OC Weekly, August 2, 2018.
Molly Glentzer, "Art Daybook: The sagging gates of the White House", Houston Chronicle, Oct. 3, 2017.
Roxanna Popescu, "Through the gates", San Diego Tribune, April 3, 2016, E3,E9.
Dioni L. Wise, "Artists display infinite creativity on paper for Weatherspoon Exhibit", Greensboro News and Record, October 16, 2014.
Tom Patterson, "Lesley Dill installation and 'Art on Paper' worth the trip", Winston Salem Journal, November 9, 2014, D4.
John O'Brien, "Margaret Griffith", Artillery, Nov/Dec 2012.
Molly Enholm, "Margaret Griffith Installation at Ruth Bachofner Gallery”, Art ltd. Nov/Dec 2012.
Diane Calder, "Continuing and Reccommended”, ArtScene, October 2012
Michelle Weiner, "Lace Art", l.a. centric magazine, Oct./Nov. 2012, 24-25.
James Scarborough,“Sweet Subversives: Contemporary California Drawings Long Beach Museum of Art“, Artillery, January/February 2010, Vol. 4/Issue 3, 46.
Doug Harvey, “Last Round, Looking forward into the past with “At The Brewery Project: The Finale“, LA Weekly,  January 16-22, 2009, Vol. 31/No.9, 44-45.    
Leah Ollman, “The definition of drawing, expanded“, Los Angeles Times,  March 10th, 2006, E19.  
Peter Frank, “Major Drawings at Carl Berg Gallery“, Art Scene, April 2006,18.
Kerry Kugelman, “NowHere/Nowhere at the Brewery Project”, Coagula Art Journal, August, 2004, 26.         
Dave Eisenstadt, “Exhibit displays range of watercolor uses”, Easy Reader, July 22, 2004, 12-13.         
Michael Hixon, “Waterfall of Colors”, The Beach Reporter, July 29, 2004, 57.

Residencies

2021 Artist in Residence, Cerritos Community College, Cerritos, CA
2017 Artist in Residence, Rock Creek Community College, Portland, OR
2016 LUX Art Institute Artist in Residence, March/April 2016, Encinitas, CA
1998 Vermont Studio Center, 1998, Johnson, Vermont

Lectures

2021 Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts Conservatory, California School of the Arts, Duarte, CA
2020 Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture Department, California State University, Northridge
2017 Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, Rock Creek Community College, Portland, OR 
2015           
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, Point Loma University, San Diego, CA

Grants/Awards

2023 2023-24 DCA Cultural Trailblazers, Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles
2018 Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship Nominee
2017 The Davyd Whaley Foundation Mid-Career Artist Grant Recipient

Reference to Work

Cleared for Take Off: Public Art at LAX

Public Art

2023 Royale Sonesta Hotel, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.

Other

Los Angeles County Civic Arts Commission Civic Artists Prequalified List, 2014-2016
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority Prequalified Artists Pool, 2014