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Curriculum Vitae

Here is an abbreviated C.V. in pdf and doc formats.  Please contact me if you need the full version or additional information.

Biography

During the day I'm a mild-mannered professor at California State University, Chico, where I teach in the Department of Communication Design. I work with undergraduate students in courses on photography, design, creativity, and innovation. I also work with graduate students across a range of disciplines.

I'm an internationally collected and exhibited photographer and artist and have three book publications - one solo, two collaborative. I've designed and published interactive media. For more information about these works, please follow the Overview link to the left. Much of my long-time collaborative work with Mark Klett can be seen on Klett&Wolfe.com and Thirdview.org.

I have had numerous exhibitions and my work is held in many permanent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. I am a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography and a Guggenheim Fellow.

I live in Northern California with my wife, two boys, dozens of fruit trees, and almost as many chickens. For fun I build fine-art chicken incubators and bake French pastries. I am learning to play the cello.

Statement

For nearly twenty years I have held a deep and abiding interest in ideas about place, history, time, perception, representation, and personal experience. My creative practice is grounded in photography and digital imaging, but I increasingly work in other media, too. In the broadest terms my work is a combination of scholarly research, creative expression, and personal narrative. Whenever possible, I prefer to work collaboratively on practice-led research with students and colleagues.

Mission statement

I do a lot of things, some more rewarding than others. A while back, I decided to map the territory I found most satisfying. This is a diagram that represents the domains within which I prefer to work, and the process I value. It's part manifesto, part guide.