A Bay Area native, he was born in 1940 in Richmond, California, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout United States and Europe, and is part of international museum collections such as: Musee D'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, Malmo Kunsthalle, Malmo, Sweden and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut. Most notably, over 100 of his paintings comprise a significant part of the renowned Panza Collection, in Varese, Italy.