Nasceu em York, Pennsylvania. Reside e trabalha em Nova Iorque. 1972-76: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. 1980: Primeira exposição individual, A window installation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nova Iorque. 1982: Energie New York, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon. 1985: Feature Gallery, Chicago; International with Monument Gallery, Nova Iorque. Objects in Collision, The Kitchen, Nova Iorque; Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut. 1987: Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1988: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sonnabend Gallery, Nova Iorque. Primeira exposição individual no estrangeiro, Galerie Max Hetzler, Colónia. 1989: Horn of Plenty: 16 Artists from New York, Stedelijk; A Forest of Signs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 1990: Bienalle di Venezia; MoMA (circula por Chicago, Los Angeles). 1991: Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlim. 1991-92: Sonnabend Gallery, Nova Iorque (circula por Londres, Lausanne, Antuérpia). 1992-93: Stedelijk (circula até Estugarda, São Francisco, Walker). 1993: American Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres. 1994: Anthony d' Offay Gallery, Londres. 1997: Guggenheim, Nova Iorque.