Originally from Mount Airy, NC. Earned BFA in Fine Arts from University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 1992 and served as Director and Curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for The Mint Museum, and as Director of Residencies + Exhibitions at McColl Center for Art + Innovation. Currently resides in Minneapolis, MN, where he is pursuing artmaking along wirh an art consulting business, Thomas Contemporary.