“My goal as a creator is to reach the largest audience possible with images and messages of joy, history, and faith in the human spirit.”

Lonnie Hanzon is a Colorado-based installation artist. His career started in the performing arts and fashion design, but he was soon hired to create major public works of art, immersive entertainment projects, visual merchandising and fine art commissions.

Comfortable with any medium and material, Lonnie is a design daredevil with a true DaVinci spirit: multi-disciplined, cross-trained, and absolutely fearless. With an astute sense of visual dramatics and an understanding of the classic rules of storytelling, Lonnie has a reputation for amazing crowds around the globe with his original works. His various product lines and bodies of work have run the gamut, from sculpted designer lollipops to massive installations.

Since 2019, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, DCPA, has produced Lonnie’s quirky Camp Christmas, a walkthrough that draws over 50,000 people annually.

PUBLIC ART

Lonnie has created several landmark public works of art, including (temporarily removed) “Evolution of the Ball”, a gateway sculpture at Coors Field in Denver. Other Colorado installations can be seen at Marjorie Park, Red Rocks Community College, Jewish Community Center, Lamar Street Light rail station, and throughout the Kenneth King Performing Arts Center at Auraria Campus. National works include Mazza Gallerie in Washington, D.C. and Neiman-Marcus Corporate Art Collection in Walnut Creek, San Jose, Beverly Hills, Westchester and Palm Beach

ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS & TELEVISION

In Denver, Hanzon is known for designing the peripatetic Wizard’s Chest toy store, The interior design of The Clocktower Cabaret, the original Parade of Lights, and his installations at Pridefest in Civic Center Park for many years. 

Lonnie served inside the Museum of Outdoor Arts from 2007-2011 as “Wizard in Residence” and he was a head show producer for LucasArts Attractions, a division of LucasFilm in the early 90’s.

Nationally, he is known for his work for Neiman Marcus featured in numerous HGTV specials, Houston ZooLights, and the original Heist nightclub in Washington D.C.

Over the course of his storied career, Lonnie has never let go of his belief that “form follows function, and those functions should include storytelling, humor, meaning, and magic.”