David Hayes (sculptor)

David Hayes (born 1931) is an American sculptor.

David Hayes was born in Hartford, Connecticut and received an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953 and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith.

He has received a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a recipient of the Logan Prize for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has had 300 exhibitions and is included in 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

In 2007 was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College.

He resides in Coventry, Connecticut (see images at ).

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David Hayes

1931 <br />Born in Hartford, Connecticut. Lives in Coventry, Connecticut.

1949–1953 <br />University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana, A.B.

1953–1955 <br />Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana. M.F.A.<br />Studied with Robert Laurent, Alton Pickens, and David Smith.

1955–1957 <br />United States Navy

1958 <br />Silvermine Guild; New Canaan, Connecticut – Sculpture Award<br />New Haven Festival of Arts; New Haven, Connecticut – Best in Show

1959 <br />Museum of Modern Art, New York – Recent Sculpture, U.S.A.<br />Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York – Animal and Young, part of inaugural exhibition of the...
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