Born, Jacksonville, FL.
Has a Masters of Science in Education, Concentration: Art Education from Nazareth College of Rochester. Received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, SUNY, Center for Creative Studies (Detroit), Barat College (Lake Forest, Illinois), and in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, and the American Academy of Art. His work has been widely exhibited, nationally and internationally and he is the author of two monographs, Walking the Line (1992) and Pressure (1997).