Dan McInnis received his BFA in Film and Photography from Ithaca College in 1992. His senior thesis was a 16mm documentary film about the life of Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ron McNair entitled “Rendez-Vous”.
He received his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1995. His MFA thesis exhibition entitled “Caution-Warning-Danger” utilized the semiotics of industrial warning labels, photographic multi-media and modern iconography to confront the oppositions between fear, death, science, religion, and sexuality.