1932 born, Belfast, Ireland
1962 MFA, Maryland School of Art
1963 Graduate Fellowship, Rinehart School of Sculpture
1964 Fulbright Fellow to Spain
1970 Founder/member: Continuum, London
1978 Member: TING (The Theater of Mistakes), London
1980 DAAD Fellowship, Berlin
1992 Hand Hollow Grant, Lebanon, NY
1995 Sirius, Artist in Residence, Cobh, Ireland
1997 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1997 Artist in Residence, Guernsey, UK
1999 Web project, Location One, NY
2000 Suite Resident Artist, Mabou Mines, NY
2002 Baumhaus Residency, Wismar, Germany
2004-5 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Residency, Dublin
TEACHING
2002 Hochschule Wismar, Dept of Architecture, Wismar, Germany
2000 Sommer Akademie, Hochschule Wismar, Dept of Architecture, Wismar, Germany
1999-2000 Fall & Spring, Guernsey College of Art and Design, Guernsey, UK
1995 Sommer Akademie, Hochschule Wismar, Dept of Architecture, Wismar, Germany
1990 Fall, Dept of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
1968-1980 London, England
1968-72 Wimbledon School of Art, Foundation
1972-74 North London Polytechnic, School of Architecture
1972-80 Hornsey School of Art, Middlesex Poly, Department of 4th Dimension
LECTURES
1998, 99 School of Art, Multi Media, Brookes Academy, Oxford, England - includes Web work
1994 College of Art, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1989 Claremont College, Claremeont, CA
1988 Dept of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison - includes performance installation
1987 Dept of Art, University of Iowa
1983 Dept of Art, University of Washington, Seattle
1982 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence - includes performance installation
1979 College of Art, Cardiff, Wales - includes performance installation
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
IN THIS DREAM
2008 Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York
TREK ELK
2007 Peppercanister Gallery Dublin
GARDEN GATE
2006 Peppercanister Gallery Dublin
NATURE'S US
2005 IMMA Dublin
POSTRIX
2005 Maroondah Arts Melbourne
2004 Exit Art, The Presidency NY
2002 Street Samurai Berlin and Helsinki
2000 Sirius Project Cobh, Ireland
WE WITNESS
2002 Galerie 21 Wismar, Germany
2001 Location One NY
2000 Galerie in Herbst Berlin
2000 Mabou Mines NY
1998 John Mooney Foundation Chicago
1998 F(L)EX London
1998 Green on Red Gallery Dublin
1997 Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown
1997 Fine Arts School Guernsey
1997 Federesky Gallery Belfast
1996 Anya von Gosseln Gallery Dublin
CHAOS CHOIR
2002 Galerie der Wald Berlin
2000 M.Y. Art Prospects NY
1995 Galerie L'Ollave Lyon
1995 Equipo N Barcelona
1995 Schon Studio Berlin
1995 EVA 95 Limerick
WASSER/ WATERS
2001 Equipo N (Pabon) Granada
2000 Kunstverein, Schloss Plon Germany
2000 Akademie Wismar Germany
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2000 M.Y. Art Prospects NY
EXI(s)T
1999 Location One NY
1995 Sirius Project Cobh, Ireland
DARK DICE
1998 Location One NY
ANGEL ANGLE
1998 EVA 98 Limerick
1996 Galeria N B Cadaques
1996 Galerie L'Ollave Lyon
1996 Equip N Barcelona
1996 Strada Studios Girona
BLOOMING
1995 Limerick City Gallery of Art Limerick
1994 Test Wall T'Z Art NY
1994 Green on Red Gallery Dublin
1990 Roebuck Moving Pictures Dublin
1989 Art at Work NY
1989,4 Oliver Dowling Gallery Dublin
1988 Gallery L'Ollave Lyon
1987 CAF Santa Barbara
1987 Gloria Lura Gallery Miami
1986 Velman Project Studio NY
1986 Quint Gallery La Jolla
1985 Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin
1984 Crawford Gallery Cork
1983 Project Art Center Dublin
1983 Nina Fruedenheim Gallery Buffalo
1983 Frank Kolbert Gallery NY
1983 Wave Hill NY
1982 L.A. Louver Gallery LA
1981 Steiner Gallery Berlin
WAY WORDS
1994 TZ'Art & Co. NY
1994 Limerick City Gallery Limerick
1993 Quint Gallery La Jolla
1993,2 Art Initiatives NY
1992 Art at Work NY
1991 Essential Nature Seattle
1990 Warwick Gallery Seattle
1989 Essential Music NY
1988 Art at Work NY
1984 Montoso Project NY
1980 Art Research Exchange Belfast
CHALK SHADOWS
1991 Video Arco Madrid
1991 Galerie L'Ollave Lyon
1990 Galleria Espace Girona
1984 Hayward Gallery London
1982 RISD Museum Providence
1981 Matt's Gallery Berlin
1980 DAAD Berlin
1979 L.A. Louver LA
1979 LAICA LA
1979 Hester Van Royen London
1977 Acme Gallery London
1976 Floating Museum San Francisco
1976 Clocktower--PS1 NY
1976 Equipo N Barcelona
1976 A Space Toronto
SIX STICKS
1981 DAAD Projects Berlin
1979 L.A. Louver LA
1979 John Weber Gallery NY
1978 Arts Council Gallery Belfast
1978 Biennale for Sculpture Sydney
1977 Vehicule Montreal
1977 Hester Van Royen London
1975 LACounty Museum of Art LA
1975 Galeria Cadaques Cadaques
1971 Clocktower (PS1) NY
1970 Equipo N Barcelona
RECENT PRESS
The idea of impermanence is at the heart of his work, which takes several,
often transient forms, including sequential drawings and paintings of flowers
blooming and fading, films, sculptures and performance interventions. "I was
inspired", he writes, "by the Zen notion that the life of a flower is a compact
summary of mortality." The Garden Gate is the entrance to a sanctuary and
hence the border between two worlds. The other group of works in this show,
Narrow Road, encompass wider swathes of landscape, but in an equally dynamic
fashion, inspired by Japanese artists like Sesshu Toyo, whose scroll paintings
encompass a whole year's passing. Janz makes fluid, overlapping images that
aim to convey "a drifting shifting sense of passage, of tempo, of travel: a time
awareness". The show includes some of his beautiful, delicate twig sculptures
of caribou.
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 18 August 2006
