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Education:

  • San Francisco State University, M. A. Photography, 1980
  • San Francisco State University, B. A. Art, 1978
  • College of San Mateo, 1972-74

Grants & Awards:

  • Fulbright Scholar Award (Britain), 1998, Hand-made Landscape
  • Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio, Italy, 2002
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation, 2006
  • Peninsula Community Foundation, 2005
  • Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, 1998
  • San Mateo County Arts Council, 1994
  • Polaroid Corporation, 1980

Permanent Collections:

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
  • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
  • MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  • The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
  • Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University
  • University of Michigan Museum of Art
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • San Jose Museum of Art
  • de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
  • Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington, D.C.
  • Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
  • National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  • The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge MA

Selected Exhibitions:

  • Monterey Museum of Art, Living with the Horizon, 2025 (solo)
  • The de Young Museum Open, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2020
  • MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, The Photography of PLACES, 1987-2009, 2015
  • Presidio of San Francisco, Picturing the Presidio (Forest Installation), 2014 (solo)
  • San Jose Museum of Art, What’s Your Angle? 2014
  • SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, Hand-made Landscape, 2013 (solo)
  • University of Michigan Museum of Art, Imagining Eden, 2007 (solo)
  • Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Imagining Eden, 2006 (solo)
  • George Eastman House, Rochester, Picturing Eden, 2006
  • Houston Center for Photography, Connecting Landscapes, 2003 (solo)
  • University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Changing Garden, 2004
  • Cantor Center, Stanford University, The Changing Garden, 2003
  • San Jose Museum of Modern Art, Holding Patterns, 1998
  • Friends of Photography, San Francisco, The Presidio: A City Woodland, 1994 (solo)
  • M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Facing Eden, 1995
  • Osaka World Trade Center Museum, Osaka, Japan, Kobe Aid, 1996
  • California ArtReach - Senate Hart Office Building- Wash. D.C. 1994
  • The Royal Photographic Society - Bath, England, Meniscus, 1987

Selected Publications:

  • Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, (monograph) University of Virginia Press, 2005
  • Picturing Eden, Steidl, 2006
  • The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography, 2004
  • View Camera Magazine, January 2004
  • The Changing Garden, University of California Press, 2003
  • Oceans, Rizzoli, 2002
  • "Cultivated Landscapes” Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, 1999
  • Facing Eden M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1994
  • "The Presidio: A City Woodland." See: A Journal of Visual Culture, 1994
  • Presidio Gateways, Chronicle Books, 1994
  • American Photographer, March 1995
  • Camera & Darkroom, Nov. 1993
  • Art Week, June 1984

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