American artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Davidson College. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota and his PhD in Studio Arts from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts where he was a recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship. In 1998, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. He was a 2011 Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa, a 2013 Christiania Researcher in Residence, Copenhagen, Denmark, and a 2014 OMI International Arts Center resident. In June and July of 2018 he was in residence at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA as a Fellowship Artist. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Yale University’s Haas Arts Library, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Liège, Belgium, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan. In his work he explores the development and history of printed information with American and Japanese influences.