He held the position of professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 2003 to 2016.
While a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he worked as an assistant to artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham and studied with Marilyn Minter.
[3] White moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to attend the ArtCenter College of Design, where he studied with artists Stephen Prina, Mike Kelley, and Christopher Williams, and received his MFA in 1998.
His earlier bodies of work, In a Matter of Days (1999) and Understanding Joshua (2001), were influenced by the highly staged art direction of photographers such as Jeff Wall.
[7] White created and exhibited the series Teen and Transgender Comparative Studies at the 2009 Hammer Biennial curated by Ali Subotnick.