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