Lawrence Waldron was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He received his primary school education at Our Lady of Fatima, R.C. School in Laventille and secondary education at College of the Immaculate Conception (St. Mary's College) in Port-of-Spain, before moving to New York in 1985.
In 1993, he graduated from St. John's University with a BFA in Fine Arts and attained an MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1998. He has been teaching art and art history at the university level since graduating S.V.A., primarily at the La Guardia Community College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY) and St. John’s University.
In 2008, Waldron attained a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree on his way to a Ph.D. in art history at CUNY’s Graduate Center and is currently writing his dissertation on the ceramics of the Pre-Columbian Eastern Caribbean. At CUNY Graduate Center, his major has been "Non-Western Art and Architecture," including African, Amerindian, Islamic and Asian subjects.
A practicing artist, Lawrence Waldron has been exhibiting his mixed media art works yearly for the past two decades at galleries, educational institions and cultural centers.
