Awards and Grants:
2008 – 4Culture Individual Project Grant: Margaret Makes Art (video / audio) King County, WA
2007 – Kent Arts Commission Purchase Award Kent, WA
2005 – No Strings Foundation Grant Los Angeles, CA (www.nostringsfoundation.org)
1999 – Betty Bowen Award Seattle Art Museum, PONCHO and Friends of Betty Bowen
1998 – Artist Trust and Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship recipient
1996 – Seattle Artists Program Award Seattle Arts Commission Seattle, WA
1986 – Baskin Award Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA
1978 – Photography In The City commission recipient Seattle Arts Commission Seattle, WA
Books:
2009 – Betty Bowen Award: Thirty Years by Michael Darling and Marisa Sánchez
Published by the 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 Seattle: 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: 1975–1980, Anniversary of an Alternative Published by Blue Sky Gallery
1979 – Some Twenty Odd Visions Published by Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2010 – Video Works by Ford Gilbreath: MARGARET MAKES ART, 2009 and MOON ROOT, 2002
Nov 5-Dec 30, 2010 in the Moving Images Room of the Anchor Art Space in Anacortes, WA
2008 – Water Samples 1997–2007 Centennial Center Gallery Kent, WA
Cheryl dos Remédios, Curator
2002 – Moon Root (video / audio / photo) Esther Claypool Gallery Seattle, WA
2000 – Bird Eye, Dog 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 – 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 - Ford Gilbreath Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR
1980 – Kathy Fridstein / Ford Gilbreath Equivalents Gallery Seattle, WA
1978 - Ford Gilbreath Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR
1975 - Ford Gilbreath / Kathleen Meighan Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions and Events:
2011 - Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Jan 24 - Apr 4, 2011
Lele Barnett, Curator
2010 - A Continuing Cultural Legacy Wright Exhibition Space Seattle April 23 - June 25
selections from the Safeco Art Collection, donated to the Washington Art Consortium
Beth Sellars, Curator
2010 - Margaret Makes Art (video, audio, photo installation) by Ford Gilbreath
with art by Alex Ruhe and Magdelen Celestino
The Vera Project Ver(A)rt Gallery Seattle March, 2010
2009 - re: Focus Photo Center Northwest Seattle, WA (http://refocus.pcnw.org/artist_list.php)
2009 – artHAUS 2009 Los Angeles, curated by Thomas Schirmboeck (www.arthaus.us)
2008 – Only In Washington Washington State Convention and Trade Center Seattle, WA
2008 – Kent Summer Art Exhibit Centennial Center Gallery Kent, WA
Cheryl dos Remédios, Visual Arts Coordinator
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 Lesa Sawahata, Curator
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
Matthew 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, Marylhurst, OR Teri Hopkins, Curator
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 - Outstanding Photographs Silver Image Gallery Tacoma, WA Dan Fear, Curator
(http://art-support.com/silverimage1.htm)
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
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 – Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 23, 1998
“Ford Gilbreath makes mud shine in painted photos at new gallery.”
1998 – Robin Updike, Seattle Times, October 29, 1998
“Ford Gilbreath photos are wonderfully mysterious.”
1978 – Donna Mitchell, ARTWEEK, April 1, 1978 “Tickets To Life’s Carnivals”
Collections:
2011 – Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon In Memory of Terry Toedtemeier
2007 – Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photography Collection
1978 – 2009 – Public Art Collections of the City of Seattle, the City of Kent, WA and King County, WA
1976 - 2009 – Private Collections in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles
Education:
M.A. – Art and Photography, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
B.S. – Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Employment History:
1996 - 2008 Photo Desk Digital Photo Tech, Seattle Post-Intelligencer daily metro newspaper
pre-press on deadline, photo resources searches and digital distribution of photos
1990 - 1996 Digital Retoucher/Photoshop Artist/Electronic Image Tech, Ivery-Seright, Inc.
1979 - 1990 Custom Printer, B/W and Color Photographs Ivey-Seright, Inc. Seattle
1978 - 1979 One of Four Photographers commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission for the
year-long project, PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE CITY
1977 - 1978 Visiting Faculty, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
co-taught PHOTOGRAPHS with Craig Hickman and guest artists from Blue Sky Gallery,
including Robert DiFranco, Jim Dobbins, Anne Hughes, Donna Mitchell,
Christopher Rauschenberg and Terry Toedtemeier