Javier Griffey is a lens–based artist whose practice explores photography as a vessel for memory, loss, and hybrid identity. Drawing on personal archives and family histories, Griffey engages the medium as both document and metaphor; layering images, texts, and material interventions to examine the gaps between presence and absence, truth and fiction. Influenced by thinkers like Roland Barthes and Homi Bhabha, his work often inhabits the "third space" of cultural negotiation and intimate fracture.

Griffey holds an MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University. His work has been featured in several recent exhibitions, including Fault Lines at theblanc gallery in New York City, the School of the Arts' MFA Thesis Exhibition, the Visual Arts + Sound Art Thesis Exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery, and showed at Columbia’s Low Library and Rare Manuscripts Collection, Coney Island, Spectacular. In 2024, his work was also included in the summer group exhibition Currents at SK Gallery. Griffey earned his BA from Moravian University in 2023.