Father Robert Goldwater, a prominent art historian who was a pioneer in promoting Indigenous art. Mother Louise Bourgeois was a renowned artist.
Younger brother Alain is an urban landscape photographer.
Graduated from Harvard.
Supported Occupy Wall Street and the Standing Rock Protest.
Grandfather Sigismund Schulz Goldwater was a physician who became the director of Mount Sinai Hospital and later the Health Commissioner of New York City. Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York City was named after him.
Co-wrote "Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition" with is documentary photographer wife Carollee Pelos.