Mark Paul Petrick earned his undergraduate degree in fine art from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in architecture. He earned his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he was a Mellon Fellow at the school’s Center for Art and Technology. He taught college art and photography, and exhibited as an artist and photographer at major institutions such as SFMoMA, the Chicago Art Institute, the Walker Art Center, and the Des Moines Art Center. His varied career also included work as a magazine publisher, writer, commercial photographer, work in industrial/public relations, and marketing communications. Mark lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is a student of Zen Buddhism at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center, and continues to pursue his art making.