Kaz McCue received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from Parson's School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts degree in mixed media (printmaking and sculpture) from Long Island University / C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, NY. He has previously taught at C.W. Post, Nassau Community College, University of Bridgeport and Indiana State University, and has conducted numerous workshops such places as; Connecticut Graphic Arts, Pyramid Atlantic Center for Printmaking and the Art of the Book, Manhattan Graphics Center and Nassau County Museum of Art. Kaz is a seasoned administrator, having managed two vigorous exhibition and visiting artist programs at Indiana State University and the University of Bridgeport. He has also served as Program Director at the Music and Arts Center for Humanity, a non-for-profit community based arts school in Bridgeport, CT and dedicated to providing an arts curriculum to youth-at-risk and children with special needs. In the summer of 2006, Kaz took over as Director of the Visual Arts Division at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI. In addition to his duties with Interlochen's Arts Academy and Summer Arts Camp, he oversaw the construction of a new $8.5 million Dow Center for Visual Art. Kaz left Interlochen in May 2010 to return to the studio and is spending the summer developing several new bodies of work..

Professionally, Kaz has been working as an artist for the past thirteen years and is widely recognized as an accomplished talent. Kaz's work has been shown in numerous museums and galleries in New York City and the northeast and his work has been included in exhibitions as far away as Hawaii, England and Sweden. Focusing on the use of found and collected materials and images, Kaz's work is playful, off-handed and amusing to viewers who can delight in the unusual relationships that the artist has created. In surrealist fashion, Kaz manipulates and rearranges materials into whimsical, absurd and sarcastic visual representations and his work exacts a harsh criticism of our contemporary culture. His use of absurdity and satire in making this sort of commentary is reminiscent of the earlier Dadaists, noting that Marcel DuChamp has had a strong influence on the artist's way of thinking.

As a curator, Kaz ran the University Art Gallery at Indiana State University for five years and brought a new level of prestige and an international focus to an already vibrant program with such shows as “New Works / New Europe”, a major international exhibition with work from artists in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Ljubljana and “Philip Pearlstein: Models and Other Objects,” an exhibition of recent work by one of the world’s most noted realist painters. Kaz was also Director of The University Gallery at the University of Bridgeport for four years and was successful in creating a unique and special place for the exhibition of contemporary art. Together with his wife, sculptor Pamela Ayres, he developed the gallery into one of the premiere exhibition spaces in the northeast and managed to attract a great deal of attention both regionally and nationally. The pair has also been extremely active in the communities of Bridgeport, Terre Haute and Peoria are responsible for bringing two distinct projects to Bridgeport: Connecticut Sculpture Park - Bridgeport and the Museum of Contemporary Impressionism. They have also played key roles in a number of projects including bringing an Artspace project to Bridgeport, the Great Bridgeport Sculpture Walk, and the Festival of Elements arts festival. In Terre Haute, Kaz served on the Process Committee for Downtown Redevelopment and the establishment of an arts corridor in the downtown area. He is also a founding member of the Cultural Alliance of Terre Haute and served as the organization's President from 2005-2006. Throughout their careers, Kaz and Pam have been strong advocates for the arts and have distinguished themselves as cultural workers.

Kaz is currently working on several independent visual projects including: "Manpower: A Case Study of the Stereotypical Male Attitude in America," Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary Printmaking," and “Extraordinary Things: A Study of Contemporary Art Through Material Culture." Through the curation of these artistic projects, Kaz is exploring such contemporary themes as: perspectives of the American male stereotype and attitude, innovation and exploration in contemporary printmaking, and the utilization of cultural objects and materials as creative narrative. In the case of "Extraordinary Things" the project has been showcased in three major exhibitions, a television documentary and has been the subject of numerous lectures, panel discussions and a catalog.