Throughout his creative life, Tom Graff has been a professional artist, curator, and promoter of fellow Canadian artists at home and overseas. His leading-edge curating through his proprietorship, Tom Graff Exhibitions, known as TGX, includes working collaboratively with the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Pendulum Gallery, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, as well as many private galleries and exhibit spaces, at home and overseas. TGX has also focused on Canadian art development and promotion, producing internationally in Venice, Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Osaka, with present projects of Canadian art exhibiotns o appear at the Japan Art Forum in Kyoto and ChinArts in Shanghai, both in 2007.

For Vancouver's World Expo '86, Tom Graff was Curator and Special Programmes Coordinator for the host pavilion, the national Canada Pavilion. In 1987, Graff established TGX with work for the computer and software industries world-wide, including software development and archiving of the new design and art medium of computer-assisted design. This led to his three ground-breaking series of exhibitions entitled The Color / Colour of Black for Adobe and Apple Computer.

Since 1995 TGX established and directed the first eight years of the Pendulum Public Gallery at the HSBC building in Vancouver. This included curating, producing, and managing over 125 exhibitions, as well as funding development, and establishment of a public relations branding from the Pendulum Gallery name to exhibit promotion strategies.

Tom Graff's many exhibitions curated from abroad into the Canadian context have included Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, U.S.A., Cuban, African nationals, and recently-immigrated Canadian artists.

Graff is a leader in sustainable use of cultural materials. The 2006 TGX curatorial and design work for the United Natoins World Urban Forum set ecological sustainability exhibition materials and practices standards. Along with high praise for the exhibition curating and design, UN delegates and officals alike were delighted with Graff's approach to the world-wide sustainable projects photo contest: thematically and tangibly sustainable and recyclable from logisticts through to material curation, display concept and construction, the exhibition embodied the theme. The project was initiated and financially sponsored by International Development Research Centre / Le Centre de Recherches pour le Development International, a Canadian crown corporation working in collaboration with researchers from the developing world for healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

For his work in the visual and mesuem arts, Tom Graff is the recipient of the distinguished Lynch-Staunton Award for his "outstanding artistic achievement and contribution to building Canadian culture."

2006

Curator's Tours of Contemporary Tokyo Architecture
Shinto to Canada's Moriyama
TOKYO, February 28, 2006.

John Howe: Lord of the Brush
Canadian Visionary Cinema Concept and Fantasy Artist
TOKYO, February 27 – March 31, 2006.

Consulting: Photography Contest; Performance Art; Lectures; Wabi Sabi / Mingei Mind —includes exhibtions and events in Vancouver, Shiga, Kyoto, Nikko.

Curatorial Archive Activity

Textile Collection: finding homes for National Mary Maxim Collection and a Meisen Kimono Tresure Trove.

Papyrus: Development of Collection and a Home
Over 3000 from various colloctors. Collection examples from all continents.

2007

Producer and curator of exhibitions of Canadian Artist Andrea Padovani for Kyoto's Japan Art Forum and Shanghai's ChinArt.