Eleni Smolen, Eternal Wave, 2002, Oil and mixed media on gessoed paper to panel, 42 x 72 inches
"It is by the deep, hidden currents that the oceans are made one." Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
Born Deep River, Ontario Canada
1965 Summers spent in northern Saskatchewan
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)
1999 Names Brooklyn studio TheoGanz Studio
2001 Travels to Venice
2002
2003 Biophilia, solo, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance,
Narrowsburg, NY
2005 Begins Dharma Rain Series (oil; 48x48in)

2006
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,
juror)
2009 Moves to Beacon, NY
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 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 Annual 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 Annual 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 Voices: I Remember, group, Hammond
Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
Curator, Bibiana Huang Matheis (below-R)


Finishes first Box 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
Art Seen / Selected
THE MILK OF DREAMS, 59th Biennale, Cecilia Alemani, curator
GATHIE FALK: REVELATIONS, McMichael Collection of
Canadian Art, Kleinburg, ON
Presents the 63rd Annual Print Release from Kinngait Studios
Begins Little Consolation Series (ongoing)
2023
Art Seen / Selected
• JACK WHITTEN: THE GREEK ALPHABET PAINTINGS at DiaBeacon
• WANGECHI MUTU INTERTWINED at New Museum
• MARK BRADFORD YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME TWICE, H&W
• ASHLEY GARRETT AMBROSIA at SEPTEMBER, Kinderhook, NY
• MICHAEL SNOW: A LIFE SURVEY at The School, Kinderhook, NY
• BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART, Vancouver, BC
• WILLIAM KENTRIDGE OH, TO BELIEVE IN ANOTHER WORLD, MG
• BRICE MARDEN: LET THE PAINTING MAKE YOU, Gagosian NY
• TRACEY EMIN: LOVERS GRAVE, White Cube, NY
• TOM THOMSON NORTH STAR, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, ON
Curates Unfolding Vision Leporellos and Corresponding Work
Vol 1 at The Lofts at Beacon (theoganzstudio.com)
Curates Drawings and Prints from Kinngait Fall 2023 (online)
Hosts the 2023 Annual Print Release from Kinngait
Curates & Produces Plucked Notes with a Quick Dispatch /
Artists' Benefit for Doctors Without Borders

Freaky Flowers, group exhibition, SEPTEMBER, Kinderhook, NY
Radiance, group, curator, Catherine Welshman, Newburgh
Beacon Open Studios 2023 July 22 & 23 12-6 pm
AND THIS:
Three Weeks in temperate rain forest of Haida Gwaii, August, 2023
visiting family, UNESCO World Heritage sites for Haida villages and
poles, walking trails. Called it "the trip of a lifetime" but hope to go
back soon and walk more trails, wade in more tidal pools, take more
photographs. Haawa to family for hosting us with such generosity
and graciousness.
2024
Art Seen/Selected
THE AWE OF THE ARCTIC / A VISUAL HISTORY,
New York Public Library, NY, NY
MADAYIN 8 DECADES OF ABORIGINAL AUSRALIAN BARK
PAINTING, Asia Society, NY, NY
FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE – STRANIERI OVUNQUE,
60th Biennale, Adriano Pedrosa, curator
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: SELF PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT,
Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice
BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE, CITY OF REFUGE III,
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
JULIAN SCHNABEL, SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME,
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
CHRISTOPHER WOOL, SEE STOP RUN, 101 Greenwich St, NY, NY
JOE RADOCCIA: PORTRAITS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Shares studio with friend and begins series, Sketches From the
Forest – drawings inspiried by 2023 trip to Haida Gwaii

There's a Light in the Middle of the Forest; I'll Meet You There,
2024, Graphite and charcoal on Arches Huile, 51 x 40 in
Sketches from the Forest Series
Works on leporellos in studio at home
Dialogue in a Variable Key, 2-Person Exhibition, Beacon, NY
2025
Art Seen/Selected
CURVE! WOMEN CARVERS ON THE NORTHWEST COAST,
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, B.C.
KIHI 'YAHDA CHRISTIAN WHITE: MASTER HAIDA ARTIST,
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, B.C.
ISABEL WYNN, A PAZ QUE VOCÉ É (THE PEACE THAT IS YOU)
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
TAKAO TANABE: EARLY WORKS, Equinox Gallery
RIOPELLE: CROSSROADS IN TIME, a retrospective organized by
the National Galleruy of Canada to mark the centenary of
Riopelle's birth, Vancouver Art Gallery
Spends February visiting family in Vancouver, B.C.
Begins photobook project
Moves to Vancouver, B.C.

Low Tide, English Bay, 2025, photograph
Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
Curator, Bibiana Huang Matheis (below-R)


Finishes first Box 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
Art Seen / Selected
THE MILK OF DREAMS, 59th Biennale, Cecilia Alemani, curator
GATHIE FALK: REVELATIONS, McMichael Collection of
Canadian Art, Kleinburg, ON
Presents the 63rd Annual Print Release from Kinngait Studios
Begins Little Consolation Series (ongoing)
2023
Art Seen / Selected
• JACK WHITTEN: THE GREEK ALPHABET PAINTINGS at DiaBeacon
• WANGECHI MUTU INTERTWINED at New Museum
• MARK BRADFORD YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME TWICE, H&W
• ASHLEY GARRETT AMBROSIA at SEPTEMBER, Kinderhook, NY
• MICHAEL SNOW: A LIFE SURVEY at The School, Kinderhook, NY
• BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART, Vancouver, BC
• WILLIAM KENTRIDGE OH, TO BELIEVE IN ANOTHER WORLD, MG
• BRICE MARDEN: LET THE PAINTING MAKE YOU, Gagosian NY
• TRACEY EMIN: LOVERS GRAVE, White Cube, NY
• TOM THOMSON NORTH STAR, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, ON
Curates Unfolding Vision Leporellos and Corresponding Work
Vol 1 at The Lofts at Beacon (theoganzstudio.com)
Curates Drawings and Prints from Kinngait Fall 2023 (online)
Hosts the 2023 Annual Print Release from Kinngait
Curates & Produces Plucked Notes with a Quick Dispatch /
Artists' Benefit for Doctors Without Borders

Freaky Flowers, group exhibition, SEPTEMBER, Kinderhook, NY
Radiance, group, curator, Catherine Welshman, Newburgh
Beacon Open Studios 2023 July 22 & 23 12-6 pm
AND THIS:
Three Weeks in temperate rain forest of Haida Gwaii, August, 2023
visiting family, UNESCO World Heritage sites for Haida villages and
poles, walking trails. Called it "the trip of a lifetime" but hope to go
back soon and walk more trails, wade in more tidal pools, take more
photographs. Haawa to family for hosting us with such generosity
and graciousness.
2024
Art Seen/Selected
THE AWE OF THE ARCTIC / A VISUAL HISTORY,
New York Public Library, NY, NY
MADAYIN 8 DECADES OF ABORIGINAL AUSRALIAN BARK
PAINTING, Asia Society, NY, NY
FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE – STRANIERI OVUNQUE,
60th Biennale, Adriano Pedrosa, curator
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: SELF PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT,
Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice
BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE, CITY OF REFUGE III,
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
JULIAN SCHNABEL, SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME,
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
CHRISTOPHER WOOL, SEE STOP RUN, 101 Greenwich St, NY, NY
JOE RADOCCIA: PORTRAITS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Shares studio with friend and begins series, Sketches From the
Forest – drawings inspiried by 2023 trip to Haida Gwaii

There's a Light in the Middle of the Forest; I'll Meet You There,
2024, Graphite and charcoal on Arches Huile, 51 x 40 in
Sketches from the Forest Series
Works on leporellos in studio at home
Dialogue in a Variable Key, 2-Person Exhibition, Beacon, NY
2025
Art Seen/Selected
CURVE! WOMEN CARVERS ON THE NORTHWEST COAST,
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, B.C.
KIHI 'YAHDA CHRISTIAN WHITE: MASTER HAIDA ARTIST,
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, B.C.
ISABEL WYNN, A PAZ QUE VOCÉ É (THE PEACE THAT IS YOU)
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
TAKAO TANABE: EARLY WORKS, Equinox Gallery
RIOPELLE: CROSSROADS IN TIME, a retrospective organized by
the National Galleruy of Canada to mark the centenary of
Riopelle's birth, Vancouver Art Gallery
Spends February visiting family in Vancouver, B.C.
Begins photobook project
Moves to Vancouver, B.C.

Low Tide, English Bay, 2025, photograph