He received his MFA degree in 1986 from the University of Southern Illinois in the USA. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Canada, the USA, and Ireland, and has also exhibited prints and installations extensively in group exhibitions in Poland, Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Russia. His work has been reviewed extensively in the media in both Canada and the USA, and a number of extensive catalogues of his works have been published. He is the recipient of many research and production awards from both government agencies and from private foundations. His work combines digital and traditional print technologies, and deals with collapsed layers of historical memory and the present moment.