He has conducted research on the Taipei Biennial for Nanjo & Associates, Tokyo and has served as an artist selector for the Nordic Artists Center (NKD), Harlem Arts Alliance, New York and as a Mentor at the College Arts Association conferences as well as museum research for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York) and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC).

As a management consultant he has authored in-depth strategic reports since 1989 in marketing, energy, healthcare, new horizon technologies, genetics, energy, consumer marketing, and competitive intelligence. He is former Chair for New York for Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

He possesses a combined background in the arts and management: MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London; PhD Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; MA Sculpture (Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture/ MEXT Scholar), Musashino Art University, Tokyo; BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London; MBA, California State University; M.Sc Management, on the Boston University/Vrije Universiteit, Brussels European Management Program. His doctoral research examined multi-media art systems in public spaces using sculpture, performance, and cross-disciplinary practices.

He has been a visiting lecturer on contemporary fine art in Europe, the US and Asia at La Salle School of Art, Singapore; Nanyang Academy of Art, National University of Singapore; Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; University of California, Santa Barbara. Future engagements are being prepared for Goldsmiths College (2013).

He is Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program: School of the Arts (2008-2010) researching intersections of contemporary art in science and philosophy, art in public spaces, museums, municipal sites; Columbia University Department of Philosophy (2011-2012) researching new structures for interdisciplinary research in the arts and sciences within universities; and Columbia Business School (2011) at the Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship where he is co-author of the report NYC Life Arts for University Programming for the Mayor’s Office of the City of New York bridging graduate training with film and television broadcasting. He has also published research on international Technology Transfer Models.

He was Artist Fellow at the Stiftung Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau  on their CIAM Urbanisme X Cities of Tomorrow Program (Germany, Singapore, 2008-2009), Abbey Fellow (2009) for Public Arts, National Design Museum, New York and Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. He was 2012 Visiting Artist at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

He has exhibited at The Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Maejima Art Center, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Wales; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Norimatsu Museum, Japan; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York; Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin; Nylon, London; Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo and Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York.