Ganz uses film photographic processes, combined with digital manipulation and other art media to investigate landscape and the ideas that are layered upon landscape imagery about history, memory, space, architecture.

 

One Person Exhibitions

 

2026 Follies and Caprices, ODD-KIN Gallery, East Providence, RI.

2018   Wave Room, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY.

‍     ‍      Storm Diptych, RISD Museum, Providence, RI.

2016   Theresa Ganz, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.

‍ ‍           Theresa Ganz and Millee Tibbs, Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI.

2015    Heart of the Cave, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

2012    Don’t get out much, Bell Gallery, Brown University, RI.

2012    As if the Earth Were Air, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.

2008    Shadow on the Green, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.

2006    The Things That I Have Seen, I Now Can See No More, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.

2005    Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

 

Selected Group Shows

2025 Pile of Shit, SideBitch, Los Angeles, California. 

‍ ‍    Of Land and Place, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont. 

2024  Lonesome Salon,(screening of storm diptych),  Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY. 

‍ ‍    Erase the Strata: Disguise and Surprise, Od-Kin Gallery, Providence, RI.

‍ ‍    Press Print: Risograph Photo Books, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY.

‍ ‍    Penumbra Foundation Risography Books, Printed Matter, New York, NY.

2023   Structural Concerns, Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

‍ ‍     Homage, Fred Gallery, New York, NY.

‍ ‍     Smack Mellon Gala Fundraiser, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY., 

2022 Each and Every Action, Jameson and Thompson, Boston, MA.

‍ ‍    Smack Mellon Gravity Racers Benefit Auction, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Fragments, Marshall Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.

2020 Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.

‍ ‍ The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds, Fotobokfestival, Oslo, Norway. 

2019   Elemental Construction, curated by Samantha Johnston, Colorado Center for Photographic Arts, Denver, CA.

2018   The Sum of its Parts, High Five Arts, curated by Scout Hutchinson and Mary Provenzano, Lowell, MA.

2017    Providence x Hudson: Prevailing Mysteries, curated by Manya Rubinstein, Walnut Hill Fine Art, Hudson, NY.

‍ ‍ Regina Rex: Quorum, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA.

‍ The Newest Romantics, curated by Jamilee Lacy, The New Art Center, Newton, MA.

‍ ‍ Group Show 53: On Beauty, curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein. 

2016    Psychedelic Providence, curated by Jamilee Lacy, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL.

‍ Space: SF CameraWork Juried Exhibition, juried by Anastasia James, Michael Light and Mark Murrman, San Francisco, CA.

‍ ‍ Of Many Minds: Theresa Ganz, Klea McKenna and Meghann Riepenhoff, Euqinom Projects, San Francisco, CA.

‍ ‍ DeCordova Biennial, curated by Jennifer Gross and Sarah Montross, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA.

2015    Lands End, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2014    Obsessive Reductive, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA.

            New Threads, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

 

2013    Art on Paper, four person show, Datz Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.

            Nature as Muse, Murray Circle, three person show, Cavallo Point, California.

2012    Dots And Loops: Photographs From The Permanent Collection, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Canada.

            I’ll take you there: The Constructed Landscape, Pavel Zoubek Gallery, New York, NY.

            Regina Rex, Part I, Eli Ping Gallery, New York, NY.

            Inside Outside/ Outside-In, four person show, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY.

 

2011    Camera Club of New York Residency Award Show, New York, NY.

           Animality, Open Practice Committee Exhibition, University Of Chicago, IL.

           Rock, Paper, Scissors, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.

 

2010    In Pieces; New Collage, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2009    Rock, Paper, Scalpel, two person show, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

            (Super)Natural, New York Photography Festival, New York, NY.

            Ship in a Bottle, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, IL.

2008    Acqua Art Fair, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Miami, FL.

            A Tree is Nice, Julie Baker Fine Arts, Nevada City, CA.

            Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.

2007    Acqua Art Fair, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Miami, FL 2007.

            Art Chicago, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Chicago, IL, 2007

           Seven Sad Forests, Garage Biennale/ Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco CA 2007.

           Photography: Beyond Botanica, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA 2007.

           Systems and Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2007.

 

2006   Acqua Art Fair with Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Miami, FL.

           Art: 212, The Downtown Armory, New York, NY.

          Cream from the Top: surfacing talent from fine arts programs, Arts Benicia, CA.

          Vernissage, MFA Show, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

          New Works, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.

          Sacred and Profane, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute..

          Paul Sack Award Recipients, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.

Reviews/Articles

2015    Ela Yeliz, “Interview: Theresa Ganz,” XOXO the Mag, April 2015.

            Gillian Dykeman, “The Exterior Edges of the Cave”, ArtSlant Worldwide.  Review of Solo show at Evans Contemporary. (http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/42041)

            Canadian Art, “Must-Sees This Week: February 5-11,” February 5, 2015. (http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/marimekko/)

2014    Theresa Ganz’s Deep Cuts, Profile, Outpost Journal, Issue #4, September 2014.

2013    Sangyon Joo, Interview: Theresa Ganz, Magazine Gitz,  Issue #5, September, 2013.

2012    Zachary Cahill, Earth Without Aura: Notes on the Psychology of Contemporary Landscape, Mousse Magazine, Issue #35, October 2012.

2009    LUCI Collective, (Super)natural, Exhibition Catalogue,.

2008    Traci Vogel, “Theresa Ganz: Shadow on the Green”, Review,  SF Weekly: December 9.

            Jeanne Stork, “Theresa Ganz”, Review,  Flavorpill.

2007    Traci Vogel,  “Ping Pong in the Garage,”Review,  SF Weekly: Best Of, August 22.

            Michael S. Gant , “Natural High” MetroActive, Review, August 18-14.

            Michelle Mansour, “Systems and Transmutations,” Exhibition Catalogue Root Division.

2006    Avital Binshtock, “Art School Confidential.” Lifescapes: West Coast Art and Design, November.

            Richard Freedman, “Vine Arts,” Review,  The Vallejo Times- Herald, Aug. 15.

 

Invited Lectures/ Guest Critic

2015    Alfred University, Artist Talk

            Lesley University, Guest Critic

2014    RISD Photography Department, Guest Critic

            NYU Draper Program in Graduate Studies, Artist Talk

2010    Camera Club of New York, Dark Room Residency Award Lecture

2007    Photo Alliance Introductory Lecturer.

 

I take photographs as source material for composed landscapes.  Traditional landscape tends to suggest vastness and the conquering vision of man over nature, or conversely nature’s awesome greatness and the smallness of man. My work seeks to undermine these dispositions, offering instead a more myopic and ambiguous vision. The viewer is never afforded enough distance to gaze out, but is confronted with a mazelike and internal world of warped detail and impenetrable surfaces. When photographs are cut and pasted together, they are freed from the logic and context by which we usually understand them and our minds must attempt to assemble a new whole from marooned parts.

 

My work has one foot in 19th century Romanticism, with an interest in the relationship of the individual to the natural world, and the other in 21st when lived experience (for those with access) happens less and less in the physical body encountering the actual world, and the natural world is under grave threat.  Romanticism and later Transcendentalism promised spiritual experience through communion with nature. In a time of catastrophic environmental degradation this door seems to be closed to us and yet the longing remains; is it still possible that an instinctive response to natural beauty can lead us somewhere? In a digital, dematerialized world can objects still have aura? Is it still meaningful to stand in a room with art works? These questions haunt and motivate my work. Beyond this, I’m moved by an irresistible procreative urge to put something new in the world, despite a sense that there is already too much made, too much wasted. No art can save the world, but it must be part of how we travel through it.

 

2015  MJR Projects, Artist in Residence

         University Humanities Research Grant

2014 Kala Institute, Artist in Residence

         Salomon Award

2013 University Humanities Research Grant

2012 University Humanities Research Grant, Don't Get Out Much

2010 Camera Club of New York, Darkroom Residency.

2009 Peter S. Reed Foundation Fellowship.

         Banff Thematic Residency.

2006 Headlands Center for Arts, MFA Studio Award Finalist.

2005 Paul Sack Photography Award, Honorable Mention.

Regina Rex, Director

Traditional Black and White Darkroom Photography as well as Digital Photography, all with a focus on finding a personal vision and creating a cohesive body of work.