• Born in Los Angeles in 1945.

• Graduated high school in 1962.

• 1962, Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

• Moved to Hawai’i 1968

• First solo exhibitions at Gima’s Art Gallery and The Downtown Galleries’ in Honolulu.

• 1976- 1979, BFA in Fine Art Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.

• 1980-1982, MFA Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York.

• 1983 Teaching photography at the University of Hawaii.

• Kalaupapa: A Portrait co-published by the Arizona Memorial Museum Foundation and the Bishop Museum in 1989.

• 1987-1989 Ohio Arts Council artist-in-residence at the Dayton Art Institute.

• Hospice of Dayton Project, Earning Ohio Arts Council Photographers Fellowship.

• Returned to Hawaii, marrying in 1990, and relocated to Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.

• In 1995, Kaho`olawe: Na Leo O Kanaloa was published by `Ai Pohaku Press.

• Received the Hawaii Book Publishers Association, Hawaii Book of the Year award in 1996.

• Exhibition, Kaho`olawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island, was presented at the Bishop Museum, Hawai’i and Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.

• In 1993, Wayne was one of six artists included in the First Biennial Exhibit at the Contemporary Museum, in Honolulu.

• Editions Limited published Wayne’s first book of his black and white underwater work, Through a Liquid Mirror [with an Introduction by Thomas Farber]. This book received the Hawaii Book Publishers Association, Hawaii Book of the Year award in 1997.

• From 1999 to 2001, Wayne traveled throughout the United States and Japan photographing aquariums.

• This project led to the book, Other Oceans [Introduction by Thomas Farber, essays by Bruce A. Carlson and Frank Stewart], published by University of Hawaii Press in 2001.

• Exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries, including;

• National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

• Dimbola Museum, United Kingdom

• M.I.A. Gallery, Seattle

• Tokyo Designer Space, Japan

• New York University, Tisch School of Art Gallery, New York City

• Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

• Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

• Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York

• Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach

• High Museum, Atlanta

• VIP room of the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair, Japan.

  Significant public collections include;

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego

• The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

• The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

• The Dimbola Museum, United Kingdom

• Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu.

His work has been published in;

• Aperture

• American Photographer

• Camera Arts

• Day in the Life of Hawaii

• Photo Japan

• LensWork

• 2006 Wayne received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

• Dr. Randal Kosaki invited Wayne to accompany the August 2009 research cruise of the NOAA vessel Hi’ialakai to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

• 2010 Editions Limited published Akule, Wayne’s book of black and white underwater photographs of the schooling fish [with essays by Thomas Farber and Frank Stewart]. 

• Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, Wayne put together a 100-print traveling exhibition of photographs of Kalaupapa in 2011. This exhibit was displayed at Molokai Museum & Cultural Center, Kalae, Hawaii, until August 2016.

• In 2012, Ili Na Ho’omana’o o Kalaupapa: Casting Remembrances of Kalaupapa was published by Pacific Historic Parks. This exhibit was shown on all central Hawaiian Islands.

• Wayne completed an extended assignment for SCUBAPRO to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2012. His photographs are featured in the SCUBAPRO catalog, an in-house e-book, and other advertisements and promotions for SCUBAPRO.

• ​In 2013, Wayne was honored to have a solo exhibition at the Dimbola Museum on the Isle of Wight in the UK. The Dimbola Museum is housed in the former residence of the renowned Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

• In 2014, his work was exhibited at the Datz Museum in South Korea, along with the work of American Photographer Barbara Bosworth and Korean artist Yun Soo Kim. A beautiful new limited edition book of Wayne’s work, Flowing, was published by Datz Press.

• Wayne’s solo exhibition of his Akule images at the National Academy of Sciences, West Gallery, in Washington, D. C. was selected D.C.’s Best Photography Exhibit in 2015.

• 2015 the Datz Museum presented a one-person exhibition of Wayne’s photographs from Jeju Island in South Korea. They also published a portfolio book, Islands, Jeju.

• In 2020, Wayne traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he photographed the humanistic artwork on the Mexican side, the warning signs, and high-tech surveillance equipment on the U.S. side. This work culminated in creating a YouTube exhibit titled "Where Borders Cross," with music by Kris Kesoglides and Elise Levin.

• While looking through old slides, Wayne found photographs he took on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. This work was published as a zine by Tritone Press in January 2022.

• 2023, The Edge Exhibition, Polu Gallery Hawai’i.