Power Boothe, a recognized abstract painter, is also highly respected for his accomplishments in other art forms and for his work as an educator. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, received his B.A. from Colorado College, and moved to New York in 1967 as a participant in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, where he studied both critical theory and studio art. In recognition of his mid-career accomplishments, he received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Colorado College (1989). He has continued his education by participating in postgraduate programs, including the University of California at Berkeley philosophy department, the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, in Italy.

In 1975 Boothe was awarded an NEA Artist Fellowship, and in 1985 a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. His eighteen solo exhibitions in New York have received critical acclaim, and his work is represented in many public collections including the Guggenheim and Hirshhorn Museums. Boothe has designed sets for Obie-Award winning productions by Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, Joanne Akalaitis and Virgil Thomson; he has collaborated as a visual artist with choreographers Charlie Moulton, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon and Doug Varone. He has been the co-recipient of five NEA Inter-Arts Grants, three NYSCA Grants, and a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Grant. In 1984 he received a Bessie Award for set design. His films have premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, and The Collective for Living Cinema, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Currently the Director of the School of Art at the University of Ohio in Athens, Power Boothe was a member of the graduate faculty at the Maryland Institute, College of Art from 1993-1998. Because of his involvement with a wide range of art forms as Aiell as his continuing studies in art history and philosophy, he has developed and taught innovative graduate seminars that explore the basis for why art is an integral part of the human dimension. He was an Associate Professor at Princeton University (1988-94), an Adjunct Instructor at the School of Visual Arts (1979-88), and has been a visiting artist/lecturer at many colleges and universities.

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