Sculpture Coordinator, Full-time faculty, Sculpture and Drawing, received a BFA from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy. He currently serves also as an Adjunct Professor on the sculpture faculty of the University of the Arts, where he has taught since 1981. In 1984, 1991 and 1998, he was awarded Mellon Venture Fund Grants by the University of the Arts. From 1994 to 1996, and from 2000 to 2003, he served as Faculty Chair at the New York Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, and was included in “Figurative Art 1960-80,” an exhibition that traveled throughout the US and Europe, and in “Derriere Guard,” a 1997 exhibition at The Kitchen in New York. He has lectured as a visiting artist at American University, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia College of Art, Yale University, University of Michigan, and Carnegie Mellon.