"It is by the deep, hidden currents that the oceans are made one." Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
(left to right: David, Eleni, Henry; photograph taken at Lake Buell, MA by James D. Metzger, photographer)
Born Deep River, Ontario Canada
1954-1965 Family lives in Scotch Plains, NJ
(58-60 Family lives in London, England)
1963 Receives first camera from Maternal Aunt
1965 Family returns to Canada
Summers spent in northern Saskatchewan
Attends high school in Saskatoon
1970 Attends Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
1972 Travels throughout Greece for three months
1976 B.A, Carleton University, Ottawa
1979 Moves to Brooklyn from Toronto
1987 Travels to France and Greece
1989 Masters of Social Work, NYU
1989-96 Clinical Social Worker in Brooklyn, NY
1996 Moves to Southern Tier, New York
Starts to paint (Biophilia Series)
Father diagnosed with dementia in Toronto
1999 Names Brooklyn studio TheoGanz Studio
2001 Travels to Venice
2002 Father moved to nursing facility
2003 Biophilia, solo, DVAA, NY
2005 Begins Dharma Rain Series (oil; 48x48in)
2006 Father dies in Toronto (9/06/25-3/27/06)
Curates Elegy in a Variable Key
(paintings + voice), in his memory
TheoGanz Studio, Brooklyn
Art for Water, Damascus Citizens, NYC
Curates SONYA Invitational,
6 x 6, DVAA, Narrowsburgh, NY
Two Painters, curator, William Pesce,
Windsor Whip Works, Windsor NY
2007 Enigma, curator, Paulien Lethen,
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition,
Shippensburg University, (Stephen Haller)
2009 Moves to Beacon, NY
MGM dies (7/4/1909 - 7/13/2009) in Toronto
2011 Persistent Song, Bank Square, Beacon
Annual Members Show, Garrison Art Center
2012 Inaugurates TheoGanz Studio as commercial
gallery in Beacon theoganzstudio.com
Travels to Cycladic Islands, Greece
2013 Inaugurates Beacon 3D, a public art exhibition
beacon3d.org
These are Mine, solo exhibition, TheoGanz
2014 Dispatches from Eternity, TheoGanz Studio
Curates Second Annual Beacon 3D exhibition
Travels to Cycladic Islands, Greece
Begins to handle Inuit art from Kinngait at TGS
2015 Meeting Past with Present, curator, Bibiana
Matheis, Akin Museum & Library, Pawling
Women of Hudson Valley, HCC
Small Works, group, The Catalyst Gallery
Curates 3rd Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2016 Begins Wherever I Travel/Ridgeline Series
(horse motif on 16 x 16 in panels; below)
Behold the Moon, curator, Bibiana Matheis,
The Hammond Museum & Stroll Garden
Women of Hudson Valley, HCC, Beacon
The Wind Will Carry Us, TheoGanz Studio
Beacon Open Studios
Curates 4th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2017 Mother dies suddenly in Toronto (8/10/17)
Curates 5th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2018 Closes brick and mortar TheoGanz Studio
(58-60 Family lives in London, England)
1963 Receives first camera from Maternal Aunt
1965 Family returns to Canada
Summers spent in northern Saskatchewan
Attends high school in Saskatoon
1970 Attends Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
1972 Travels throughout Greece for three months
1976 B.A, Carleton University, Ottawa
1979 Moves to Brooklyn from Toronto
1987 Travels to France and Greece
1989 Masters of Social Work, NYU
1989-96 Clinical Social Worker in Brooklyn, NY
1996 Moves to Southern Tier, New York
Starts to paint (Biophilia Series)
Father diagnosed with dementia in Toronto
1999 Names Brooklyn studio TheoGanz Studio
2001 Travels to Venice
2002 Father moved to nursing facility
2003 Biophilia, solo, DVAA, NY
2005 Begins Dharma Rain Series (oil; 48x48in)
2006 Father dies in Toronto (9/06/25-3/27/06)
Curates Elegy in a Variable Key
(paintings + voice), in his memory
TheoGanz Studio, Brooklyn
Art for Water, Damascus Citizens, NYC
Curates SONYA Invitational,
6 x 6, DVAA, Narrowsburgh, NY
Two Painters, curator, William Pesce,
Windsor Whip Works, Windsor NY
2007 Enigma, curator, Paulien Lethen,
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition,
Shippensburg University, (Stephen Haller)
2009 Moves to Beacon, NY
MGM dies (7/4/1909 - 7/13/2009) in Toronto
2011 Persistent Song, Bank Square, Beacon
Annual Members Show, Garrison Art Center
2012 Inaugurates TheoGanz Studio as commercial
gallery in Beacon theoganzstudio.com
Travels to Cycladic Islands, Greece
2013 Inaugurates Beacon 3D, a public art exhibition
beacon3d.org
These are Mine, solo exhibition, TheoGanz
2014 Dispatches from Eternity, TheoGanz Studio
Curates Second Annual Beacon 3D exhibition
Travels to Cycladic Islands, Greece
Begins to handle Inuit art from Kinngait at TGS
2015 Meeting Past with Present, curator, Bibiana
Matheis, Akin Museum & Library, Pawling
Women of Hudson Valley, HCC
Small Works, group, The Catalyst Gallery
Curates 3rd Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2016 Begins Wherever I Travel/Ridgeline Series
(horse motif on 16 x 16 in panels; below)
Behold the Moon, curator, Bibiana Matheis,
The Hammond Museum & Stroll Garden
Women of Hudson Valley, HCC, Beacon
The Wind Will Carry Us, TheoGanz Studio
Beacon Open Studios
Curates 4th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2017 Mother dies suddenly in Toronto (8/10/17)
Curates 5th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
2018 Closes brick and mortar TheoGanz Studio
Continues to represent Inuit art from Kinngait at TGS
Travels to Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut
Presents the 2018 Cape Dorset Collection
Curates 6th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
Curates, Hiro Ichikawa 1959-2017:
Mountains & Rivers Without End/
Paintings From a Trail (catalogue)
Curates, The Magical Creatures
of Meelia Kelly/ Drawings From The
Archives;
Catalogue forward by John Westren,
Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto
2019 Curates, The imPerfect Poetics of Place
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery
Curates, Still Still Moving,
Howland Cultural Center (HCC)
Curates 7th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
Presents the 2019 Kinngait Collection
Begins Girl by the Sea and Guardian Series
Newburgh Open Studios
Incorporates thread, fabric into work
Begins Illuminated Installations
2020 Girl by the Sea/Guardians, solo exhibition,
WAAM, juror, Kristen Dodge
20/20, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh
Starts The Turin Horse and Surfacing Series
Presents the 2020 Kinngait Collection
Show of Hands, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
Surfacing, solo, Buster Levi Gallery
Begins drawings/ptgs of flukes/whales
Presents the 2018 Cape Dorset Collection
Curates 6th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
Curates, Hiro Ichikawa 1959-2017:
Mountains & Rivers Without End/
Paintings From a Trail (catalogue)
Curates, The Magical Creatures
of Meelia Kelly/ Drawings From The
Archives;
Catalogue forward by John Westren,
Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto
2019 Curates, The imPerfect Poetics of Place
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery
Curates, Still Still Moving,
Howland Cultural Center (HCC)
Curates 7th Annual Beacon 3D Exhibition
Presents the 2019 Kinngait Collection
Begins Girl by the Sea and Guardian Series
Newburgh Open Studios
Incorporates thread, fabric into work
Begins Illuminated Installations
2020 Girl by the Sea/Guardians, solo exhibition,
WAAM, juror, Kristen Dodge
20/20, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh
Starts The Turin Horse and Surfacing Series
Presents the 2020 Kinngait Collection
Show of Hands, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
Surfacing, solo, Buster Levi Gallery
Begins drawings/ptgs of flukes/whales
2021 Vaccinated 3/2021 (COVID-19)
Visits New Bedford Whaling Museum
Henry, after a long, slow decline, passes away
Voices: I Remember, group, Hammond
Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
Curator, Bibiana Huang Matheis (below-R)
Finishes first Box of Flukes, handmade
maple and walnut box which contains
70+ mini abstract paintings of flukes
Newburgh Open Studios 2021
NEWBURGH NOW! Holland Tunnel
Travels to Toronto to see family
2022
Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, curator, Sue Spaid,
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
BeaconArts at the Howland Cultural Center,
curators Karen E. Gersch & Samantha Palmeri, Beacon
Birds of a Feather, curators Joseph Ayers & Ethan Cohen,
KuBe Art Center, Beacon
Address: Earth, curator Bibiana Huang Matheis,
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill
Begins Little Consolation Series
Relocates studio to Beacon
Henry, after a long, slow decline, passes away
Voices: I Remember, group, Hammond
Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
Curator, Bibiana Huang Matheis (below-R)
Finishes first Box of Flukes, handmade
maple and walnut box which contains
70+ mini abstract paintings of flukes
Newburgh Open Studios 2021
NEWBURGH NOW! Holland Tunnel
Travels to Toronto to see family
2022
Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, curator, Sue Spaid,
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
BeaconArts at the Howland Cultural Center,
curators Karen E. Gersch & Samantha Palmeri, Beacon
Birds of a Feather, curators Joseph Ayers & Ethan Cohen,
KuBe Art Center, Beacon
Address: Earth, curator Bibiana Huang Matheis,
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill
Begins Little Consolation Series
Relocates studio to Beacon
