Colin was born in London and received an A.B. from Harvard.Two years later he later attended Columbia School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been a Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Colgate University, and a visiting artist at several other colleges, universities, and museums.

Exhibitions (partial list)
* Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC 

Museum of Modern Art, NYC 

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC 

Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

* Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NY
*Picker Gallery, Colgate University, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX

Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

Jacksonville Art Museum, FL

Flint Institute of Art, MI
NY State Museum, Albany, NY

* Royal Marks Gallery, NYC

* Bertha Schaefer Gallery, NYC

* Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC 

112 Green Street, NYC
* Finch College Museum, NYC

The Emmerich Gallery (Downtown), NYC 

John Weber Gallery, NYC

*one man shows 



Collections (partial list)
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Des Moines Art Center, IL 

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Museum of Modern Art, NYC 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 

Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Fine Art, Washington, DC

National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY

Awards and Prizes
- Creative Artists Public Service Program, NYC

- National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
- Committee for the Visual Arts

- Winning design (Wishbone House), National Competition for Playground Sculpture, sponsored by the Corcoran School of Art and Art in America Magazine

Commissions
"Cloudlines" Aluminum sculpture, Jeffery J. Sherman Arts Center, Langley School, McLean, VA

Publications (partial list)
The Washington Post

The New York Times

Art in America 

Art Forum

Coloquio Artes

Time Magazine