He often uses humor and narrative media as a means to engage and satirize the absurdities of the business of meaning-production in the contemporary art world, and in society at large. He received a BFA from Ohio State University in 2001 and an MFA in Painting/Drawing from Bard College in 2005. In 2010, he co-founded SOLOWAY, an artist-run gallery and performance space in Brooklyn NY. He was awarded the Xeric Grant for self-publishing comics artists in 2006 and his comic book LIVE/WORK was featured on The Best American Comics Anthology’s list of Notable Books of 2012. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Calgary, London, Paris, Geneva and Milan.