Griff Williams (b in Butte Montana 1966). He is the son of John Patrick Williams (b. October 30, 1937, Helena, Montana) a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana during the years 1979–1997.
Griff Williams is a San Francisco based fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including San Diego Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, New Langton Arts, Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Stephen Wirtz Gallery. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art and Artnet.com.
He received his BFA from the University of Montana in 1988 and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. He is an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute and the owner of Gallery 16, San Francisco. Since 1993, Gallery 16 has exhibited the work of scores of influential contemporary artists including Margaret Kilgallen, Arturo Herrera, Michelle Grabner, Mark Grotjahn, et al. The Gallery 16 Editions publishing program has used contemporary printmaking methods to create, portfolios and artist books for scores of notable contemporary artists such as Rex Ray, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Deborah Oropallo and William Kentridge.
Williams has also designed and published acclaimed books with the Gallery 16 Editions imprint. Over the past decade he has produced books with Barry Gifford "Las Quatro Reinas", Prince Andrew Romanoff"The Boy Who Would Be Tsar ISBN 0977744221, Harrell Fletcher "Jimmy F. Miles is a Boyfriend And A Girlfriend With Harrell Fletcher ISBN 097774423X, Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen and "Good Times:Bad Trips" with artist Scott Hewicker and Cliff Hengst ISBN 9780977744244. "Good Times:Bad Trips" includes text by Devendra Banhart, Vetiver and Drew Daniel of Matmos.