Born in New York City, December 17, 1962

Grew up in Paris and graduated from High School with a French Baccalaureate (Honorable Mention), 1981.

Studied philosophy and art at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina.  BA, 1984.

Moved to New Orleans and worked as research assistant and sales person at Kurt E. Schön, Ltd., an

art gallery specializing in 19th-century European painting, 1985-86.

Attended the seminars of François Laruelle at the College International de Philosophie, Paris, 1987.

Moved to New York City in 1988.  Curated art exhibitions and was a founding member of Thread

Waxing Space, a non-profit alternative art center in Soho.

Produced, co-directed and co-edited Bottom Line: The Kostabi Phenomenon, a 41 minute video documentary about the life and work of media prankster, Mark Kostabi, 1989-90. The film aired on television in seven different countries, including PBS in the US and BBC2 in the UK.

Enrolled at the California School of the Arts, School of Film & Video, Valencia.  MFA, 1994. 

Studied with Alexander Mackendrick, James Benning, Thom Andersen, Hartmut Bitomski & Harun Farocki.

Wrote, directed and edited Mountains Have Mouths, a 2 minute, 16mm film, 1992.

Wrote, directed and edited Tableau Vivant, a 15 minute experimental video, 1993.

Directed, photographed and edited, in collaboration with Pieter Schoolwerth, Astrid’s Secret Banana,

a 30 minute art video, 1994.  The wok was part of an installation exhibited at Thread Waxing Space,

New York. (Feature review by Thomas McEvilley in Artforum, January 1995.)

Wrote, produced, directed and edited Morongo Pass, a 38 minute, 16mm narrative film, 1995.

Produced, directed, photographed and edited The Ballad of Ion Lupescu: or 222 Minutes

to Live, a 50 minute videographic extravaganza in collaboration with Pieter Schoolwerth, 1995-2001. 

The film was included in the Polyphonix 40 Festival and was screened at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in October 2002.

Established Foundation 20 21 with Tim Nye, a New York based arts organization dedicated to collecting contemporary art and to nurturing the exchange of ideas between artists, writers, filmmakers and historians, 2002.

Founded the art dealership Vestry Arts, Inc. with Tim Nye. The gallery space is located in the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, New York, 2002.

Organized with Lacanian Ink and introduced Love Without Mercy, a lecture by philosopher and political theorist, Slavoj Zizek. Produced, directed and edited a 2 1/2 hour DVD of the event, 2003.

Curated for Vestry Arts, Inc. and wrote the catalogue essay of Drawing Out of the Void: Hans Bellmer, Pavel Tchelitchew, Steve DiBenedetto, Pieter Schoolwerth, 2004.

Curated for Foundation 20 21 Jimmy Raskin’s The Prologue, The Poltergeist & The Hollow Tree. Edited, wrote introduction and published book of same title accompanying the exhibition, 2004.