The artist relies on image scale and a diverse set of viewing spaces to compliment and complete the piece of art itself. Coolidge was born in Montreal in 1963. He received his BA from Harvard University and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. His first work after graduate school, entitled Garage Pictures, consisted of large-scale photographs of the interiors of elevators. Following this, Coolidge continued to experiment with dimensionality and size, photographing a scale model of an American town, reducing a panoramic Los Angeles view to a combination of thin strips, and even photographing discarded furniture in contrast to suburban locations.