received his MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and his BFA from the University of Buffalo. He has exhibited throughout the country, at venues such as the Dallas Contemporary (TX), Artpace (TX), Vox Populi (PA), Big Medium (TX), and the Guggenheim Museum (in collaboration with YouTube Play Biennial). He is one of the founding members of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Queens and has been a Tanne Foundation recipient and a Hambidge Residency Fellow. He lives and works in Knoxville, where he teaches drawing in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee.