He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University and has taught all levels and media in printmaking at California State University Fresno and Northern Illinois University. Coleman is a mixed media artist and printmaker creating works focused on political and social issues. The artist's work can be found in the collections of The University of Colorado, Wichita State University, the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan, The Yekaterinburg Museum of Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Ewing Gallery Collection and among many other public and private collections.