Brian Griffiths is a sculptor, but he's also, crucially, an exhibition maker. “I consider sculpture to be a social act, a social investigation, a kind of collective rebellious narrative. I am concerned with how my sculpture differs from objects in general circulation as commodities and what relationships and values this difference establishes. I make art that is full of contradictions, fallibility and feelings - something purposefully tired, as an alternative to the shiny and fresh out of the box. I am making a place for us, for the human.”
In 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts in London announced Brian Griffiths as Royal Academician, joining a select group of Honorary RA's/RA's that includes Sonya Boyce, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Mike Nelson, Marlene Dumas, David Hockney, between others.
Recent individual exhibitions include: Life and its most trivial particulars (collaboration with Frank Kent), Van Gogh House London (2022); AIR SIGNS (collaboration with Frank Kent), Room 2, Karsten Schubert, London (2020); Taking Sides at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2019); No No to Knock-Knocks, Blain|Southern, London (2018); Vilma Gold, London (2016); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2015); Tramway, Glasgow (2014); Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2012).
Recent group exhibitions include: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres (2022); Brent Biennial, London (2020); Voyage, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo (2017); Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels (2014); Folk Devil, David Zwirner, New York (2013); British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London (2010-11); Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London (2010).