Biografie
1993 – 2018 Professor of Sculpture, Installation and Art in Public Space at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2001 – 2011 Founder and Director of the English-language MFA-Program: “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2006 the program was named one of the “Top 10 International Master’s Degree Courses Made in Germany” by the „Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft“ and the DAAD. 4-year international guest professorship “Ré Soupault”, sponsored by the DAAD awarded in the same year.
2006 “Artist-in-Residence” at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Realization of “Community Weaving”, an interactive and site-specific sculpture for the Peck School of the Arts.
1992 – 1993 Guest professor, Art Academy in Muenster
1990 – 1991 Grant to work, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) USA
1987 – 1989 P.S. 1 studio residency program, New York, USA (choosen as one of 40 international participants; renewed for a second year)
1988 Emerging Artists Award of the City of DüsseldorfFörderkoje of the “Art Cologne”
1984 – 1985 Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn (grant to work)
1983 – 1984 Travel grant of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf to Rome, Italy
1983 “Meisterschülerin” of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf
1979 – 1983 Fulbright / DAAD grant to study at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf
1979 MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
1976 BFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
1972 University of Arizona-Tucson, USA
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
