Darren Waterston (born 1965, Fresno, CA) graduated with a BFA from the Otis Art Institute in 1988, after studying at the Akademie der Künste and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany. His work is in the permanent collections of the British Library, London, England; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; The Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; UCLA Hammer Museum, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Boise Art Museum, ID; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA; Oakland Museum of California, CA; Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; New York Public Library, New York City, NY; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, WA; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Seattle Art Museum, WA. He lives and works in Hudson, NY.