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1984-85 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Awarded full scholarship.
1989 Purchase College, State University of New York, B.F.A., summa cum laude. Awarded the Abbott and Beatrice Kaplan President's Award.
Additional coursework at The Center for Book Arts; Parsons School of Design; Dieu Donne Papermill
2000 Sears-Peyton: Works on Paper. Exhibition scheduled for March 1st-April 12th.
1996 Luna Series, Mixed-Media/Works on Paper, the Hotchkiss School Gallery, Lakeville, CT.
1999 Cleavage: an exhibition on the Breast, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM. Exhibition dates Aug 17th - Oct. 8th.
ASCI Digital 99 , The New York Hall of Science. Juried by Therese Mulligan, Curator of Photography at The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Opens early September.
Ninth Annual New Images Exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. Curated by Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA.
The Drawing Center Slide Registry, New York, NY. Works selected to be included in artist registry from January 1999 to present.
Works on Paper 99, the Armory Show, New York, NY.
1998 Mixed Media Works on Paper, Markel Sears Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Digital Elements, Juried show of digital prints, St. JohnÕs University Art Gallery, Queens, NY.
1999 Executive Art Director/Consultant for Interactive Media and Game Design, Learn Technologies Interactive/VOYAGER, New York, NY; 1995 to present.
1998 Milia 98, CD-ROM multi-media presentations, Cannes, France.
1997 The Making of Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom, The New York Public Library, New York, NY. Sponsored by Time Warner Electronic Publishing.
1996 Art Director for Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom, an interactive CD-ROM on the First Emperor of ChinaÕs unexcavated tomb. Published by Learn Technologies Interactive/Time Warner. Nominated for a Cody Award.
1994 Associate Producer for The Way to Shambhala, a 50 minute feature length documentary film on the Old Believers of Altai Siberia and Buddhism in Outer Mongolia. Sponsored in part by the Nicholas Roerich Museum.
1993 Research assistant, U.S.S.Art, a feature length documentary film on the changing face of underground art in Moscow and the impact of the first SothebyÕs sale in 1992.
1988 Production assistant for A Stitch for Time, a feature length documentary film on women peace quilters in Boise, Idaho and Moscow, Russia. Nominated for an Academy Award. International film festival showings.
1988 Visits to and recordings made of the Chipko grass roots movement in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal and India.
1989 Traveled in Europe and North Africa.
1990 Worked in Alaska, the Yukon, and the Aleutian Islands. Series of drawings and photographs on geological and glacial formations.
1991 Participated in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Joint Umbrellas Project for California and Japan.
1992 Traveled through Japan, Southeast Asia, Central Australia, and the Himalayas to research papermaking and aboriginal wall paintings. Photographed the Punakha Buddhist festival and dances in Bhutan.
1994 Worked in New Mexico and the canyonlands of southern Utah. Researched and recorded Hopi prophecies and petroglyphs.