艺术家，艺术学教授，担任美国纽约阿尔弗雷德大学纽约州立陶瓷学院院长和总策展人，其作品被世界各地众多艺术博物馆，如纽约大都会艺术博物馆、俄罗斯圣彼得堡艾尔米塔什博物馆、中国美术馆以及东京国立近代美术馆等，永久收藏。
2004年，成为首位获得中国景德镇市荣誉市民的外籍人士，现为国际陶艺学会荣休副主席。
Wayne Higby is an artist, a professor of art and the Wayne Higby Director and Chief Curator of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University. His work is held in the permanent collections of numerous art museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Hermitage Art Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In 2004 Higby became the first foreign national to be acclaimed an Honorary Citizen of Jingdezhen, China. Higby recently retired as Vice President Emeritus of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland.
