1995 Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany

1995-1996 Postgraduate Grant, DAAD at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College, New York, USA

2001-2002 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1995-2002 work and studies in New York and Boston, USA

Harvard Radcliffe Summer Fellow 2021
Harvard University, Cambridge USA

since 2002 lives and works in Freiburg and Nuremberg, Germany

teaching

since 2015 Professor for Painting, Chair, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany

invited artist talks/lectures

Bluerider ART London, October 2023

FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France, Oct. 2018

MNK @ Haus der Graphischen Sammlung, Augustinermuseum Freiburg, May 2017

OMI Contemporary Arts Center, Ghent, New York, March 2016

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, September 2011

Columbia University, Art Department, New York, September 2011