Norris is an award-winning mid-career, multidisciplinary artist based in Fort Worth, Texas. He studied at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Norris’ work explores the social complexities and implications of the ever-evolving built environment, expressed through a filter of wabi-sabi or the result of chance (ie. 'the exquisite corpse'), as well as the love affair/disconnect between humankind and technology. In terms of film and video Norris has made only a few films over the years including "auto-porto-matic" (1993, Run Time: 2 mins) which was featured in DCTV's Lookout Festival (selected by Cheryl Dunye). In 2008 he created a feature-length black/white film for installation titled "Infinitus" (Run Time: 72 mins, on loop) which was a 2-channel work shown side by side, playing forward and backward, presented on the gallery ceiling. Due to the length of the piece, special lounges were custom made for visitors to recline just below the projection.

Over the last decade his work has been included in the Red Dot Art Festival and Aqua Miami, as well as participation in art residencies with both Caldera (Oregon) and Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center (Nebraska). Norris’ work has been reviewed in Art Ltd, Leonardo (MIT Press), Photographer’s Forum, The Oregonian, The Boston Globe and many other publications.

Norris' work has been featured at Tacoma Art Museum, A4 Art Museum (Chengdu, China), South Bend Museum of Art, Millepiani (Rome), CoCA Seattle, the Oregon Center on Photographic Art and many other institutions. Examples of his work are held in various international private collections, as well as the Vanhaerents Art Collection (Brussels), Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fuller Museum of Art, the Museum de la Cuidad, Harvard University, Nike, and the RACC’s Visual Chronicle Collection. In 2018 Norris published his first monograph of photographic work titled ‘Shooting Blanks’ (2008-2013). Between the early 1990’s and 2013 he also spent years working as a freelance curator bringing shows to institutions as diverse as Tufts University Aidekman Art Center, SUNY/Binghamton Art Museum, Miller Fine Art Center, University of Oregon, Roland Dille Center for the Arts, Newspace Center for Photography, Boise State Visual Art Center and his own gallery/art space - Soundvision, among others.