Ford Gilbreath
email: ford@fordgilbreath.com
Education:
M.A. – Art and Photography, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
B.S. – Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Awards and Grants:
2013 – Purchase Award, Peninsula College Art Collection, Port Angeles, WA
2008 – Individual Projects Grants: Margaret Makes Art, (video/audio) 4Culture, King Co., WA
2007 – Purchase Award, Kent Arts Commission, Kent, WA
2005 – No Strings Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
1999 – Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum and Friends of Betty Bowen
1998 – Fellowship Recipient, Artist Trust and Washington State Arts Commission
1996 – Seattle Artists Program Award, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1986 – Baskin Award, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1978 – Photography In The City, commission from the Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Books:
2014 – Ford Gilbreath, Published by Blue Sky Gallery for their 40th Anniversary
2009 – Betty Bowen 30th Anniversary Commemorative Catalogue, Seattle Art Museum
1999 – Seattle Poets and Photographers: A Millennium Reflection, Rod Slemmons, Editor
Published by University of Washington Press for the Seattle Arts Commission
1998 – Seattle Collects: A Ten Year Retrospective of the Seattle Artists Program
Published by the City of Seattle for the Seattle Arts Commission
1986 – Fifteen / Seattle Book, Published by the Seattle Arts Commission
1982 – Ford Gilbreath, Published by Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, and the
National Endowment for the Arts
1980 – Blue Sky: 1987 – 1980, Anniversary of an Alternative, Published by Blue Sky Gallery
1979 – Some Twenty Odd Visions, Published by Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
Collections:
2011 - R.E.M Museum, Mannheim, Germany
2010 - Portland Art Museum, Terry Toedtemeier Memorial Collection
2007 – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1978 – 2009 – Public Art Collections of the City of Seattle, City of Kent, WA and King County
Reviews:
2000 – D. K. Row, The Oregonian, July 14, 2000
“Ford Gilbreath’s photos show what lurks in and around Seattle’s Duwamish River.”
1998 – Robin Updike, Seattle Times, October 29, 1998
“Ford Gilbreath photos are wonderfully mysterious.”
1998 – Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 23, 1998
“Ford Gilbreath makes mud shine in painted photos at new gallery.”
1978 – Donna Mitchell, ARTWEEK, April 1, 1978 “Tickets To Life’s Carnivals”
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2013 – Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA
2013 – Forterra Gallery Space, Forterra Offices, Seattle, WA
2011 – Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, Wa. St. Convention & Trade Center
2010 – Margaret Makes Art, (video/audio/photo), The Vera Project, Seattle, WA
2008 – Water Samples, 1997 – 2007, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA
2002 – Moon Root (video/audio/photo), Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 – Dog Eye, Bird Eye, Snake Eye, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 – Ford Gilbreath / Gary Oliviera, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 – Under the Duwamish and Other Waters, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 – Theresa Batty / Ford Gilbreath, Foto Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 – Photographs by Ford Gilbreath, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 – Photography, Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 – Photography ’86 Baskin Award Winners: Ford Gilbreath / Richard Lewis
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1983 – Photographs by Ford Gilbreath, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1980 – Photographs by Kathy Fridstein and Ford Gilbreath, Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA
1978 – Photographs by Ford Gilbreath, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1975 – Photographs by Kathleen Meighan and Ford Gilbreath, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions:
2020 - Visualizing 2020: Blue Sky’s Inaugural Online Members Show, YouTube.com
2009 – artHAUS 2009, Los Angeles, curated by Thomas Schirmboeck (www.arthaus.us)
2008 – Only In Washington, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2007 – The Drawers Project: Stereo Views of West Seattle, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 – Kent Summer Art Exhibit, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA
Cheryl dos Remédios, Visual Arts Coordinator
2005 – unNatural History, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Esther Luttikhuizen, Curator
2004 – Critical Mass 2004, Photo Lucida, Portland, OR
2001 – Northwest Visions: Recent Acquisitions, Key Tower Concourse, Seattle, WA
Beth Sellars, Curator, Seattle Arts Commission
1999 – Like Cats & Dogs, Pratt Gallery, CoCA, Seattle, WA
1998 – Springs Eternal, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA, Peggy Weiss, Curator
1998 – Reunion 15, FotoCircle Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 – Seattle, Portrait of the City Harborland, Sister City Exhibit, Kobe, Japan
1997 – Marks of the Artist, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA
1996 – Seattle Arts Commission’s 25th Anniversary Exhibit, SAC Offices, Seattle, WA
1995 – Twentieth Anniversary Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 – Eyes on Public Art, Sacred Circle Gallery, Norton Building, Seattle, WA
1991 – Bumberbiennale: Seattle Photography 1931 – 1991, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
Mathew Kangas, Curator
1988 – One Hundred Fifty Years of Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Terry Toedtemeier, Curator
1986 – Washington State Juried Photography Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1986 – Landscape: Photographs by Northwest Artists, Teri Hopkins, Curator Marylhurst, OR
1981 – Portopia ’81, Seattle Sister City Exhibit, Kobe, Japan, Richard Andrews, Curator
1981 – Seattle by Seattle, Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA
1980 – Blue Sky, 1975–1980: Anniversary of an Alternative Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR
1979 – Some Twenty Odd Visions, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1977 – Rainier Bank Collection of American Photographs, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1976 – In Touch: Nature, Ritual and Sensuous Art from the Northwest, Portland, OR
Lucy Lippard, Visiting Curator, Portland Center for the Visual Arts
1975 – Blue Sky Gallery Inaugural Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR