David Hayes (sculptor)
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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 over 300 exhibitions and is included in over 100 institutional collections including that 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 [1]).
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1931 Born in Hartford, Connecticut. Lives in Coventry, Connecticut.
1949 - 1953 University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana, A.B.
1953 - 1955 Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana. M.F.A. Studied with Robert Laurent, Alton Pickens, and David Smith.
1955 - 1957 United States Navy
1958 Silvermine Guild; New Cannan, Connecticut - Sculpture Award New Haven Festival of Arts; New Haven, Connecticut - Best in Show
1959 Boston Arts Festival; Boston, Massachusetts - Drawing Award
1960 New Haven Festival of Arts; New Haven, Connecticut - Best in Show for Sculpture
1961 Chicago Arts Institute; Chicago, Illinois - Logan Prize for Sculpture Post Doctoral Fulbright for study in Paris. Guggenheim Fellowship awarded and arranged to follow Fulbright.
1963 Represented United States at "Forma Viva" Sculpture Symposium, Portoroz, Yugoslavia
1965 National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, New York
1968 Return to live in the United States
1970 Monumental Ceramic Wall Commission, Elmira College; Elmira, New York
1972 Appointed visiting artist, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
1973 Juror, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Utica, New York - Annual Exhibition Illustrated Varmint Q by Charles Boer; Chicago: Swallow Press Juror, American Academy in Rome - Sculpture
1976 Sculpture for playground; Killingly, Connecticut
1977 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Massasoit Community College; Brockton, Massachusetts
1978 David Hayes: Sculptor; Channel 57 television documentary Sculpture Commission, Moriarty Brothers, Inc.; Manchester, Connecticut
1979 Illustrated French Cooking for People Who Can't by Julia Hayes; New York; Atheneum Publishers Sculpture Commission, Lydall Corporate Headquarters; Manchester, Connecticut
1980 Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, Connecticut, for Sculpture Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education, for Sculpture
1981 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1982 Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education, for Sculpture Relief Sculpture Commission, Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut
1983 Relief Sculpture Commission, Wilbraham & Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts Appointed Trustee, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford; hartford, Connecticut
1985 The Brooks File: David Hayes' Sculpture Fields, Channel 3 WFSB; Hartford, Connecticut
1987 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education, for Sculpture
1988 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana
1990 Monumental Sculpture Commission, School of Business, Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan Welded Steel Sculpture with David Hayes, documentary film completed by Richard Byrnes
1991 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York PBS Broadcast of The Sculpture of David Hayes, documentary film by Richard Byrnes
1992 Elected Regent, University of Hartford; Hartford, Connecticut
1993 Appointed Board Member, New York Sculpture Guild One-man show at Elaine Benson Gallery
1994 One-man show at Anderson Gallery
1996 One-man shows at Prudential Center; Boston; Gulf Coast Art Center; Belair, Florida; The Pingry School; Martinsville, New Jersey
1997 One-man shows at 100 Pearl Gallery; Hartford, Connecticut; The Gallery, University of New Haven; Southern Vermont Art Center; Manchester, Vermont Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida - Screen Sculptures Orlando City Hall; Orlando; Hines Building; Boston; Hayes Modern Gallery; Naples, Florida
1998 One-man shows at Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School; Windsor, Connecticut City of Stamford, Connecticut and Stamford Town Center Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School; Lakeville, Connecticut Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida Stamford Center for the Arts, Rich Forum; Stamford, Connecticut
1999 Screen Sculpture Commission, Nicotra Group; Staten Island, New York One-man show at Colgate University; Hamilton, New York
2000 One-man shows at Sculpture at Sasaki, Sasaki & Associates; Watertown, Massachusetts\ Fordham University Downtown; New York| David Hayes Steel Sculptures, Denise Bibro Fine Arts Inc.; New York, New York
2001 Geary Design; Naples, Florida Graham Nickson Paintings, David Hayes Sculpture Lyric Theater Sculpture Garden; Stuart, Florida Outdoor Sculpture
2002 Lyric Theater Sculpture Garden; Stuart, Florida - Outdoor Sculpture One-man show: Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut - Small Sculptures
2003 Burt Reynolds Museum, Jupiter, Florida - Inaugural exhibition 5 Screen Sculptures at the University of Central Florida; Orlando, Florida David Hayes Sculpture, Sculpture Garden & Studio at Gidion's, Kent, Connecticut
2004 David Hayes Sculpture at Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, Miami, Florida Outdoor Sculpture, James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania Exhibition Without Walls; 40 sculptures in downtown Fort Pierce, Florida
2005 8 Vertical Motifs at the Mobile Museum of Art; Mobile, Alabama. 12 sculptures on Oyaron Hill, Hartwick College; Oneonta, New York Maquettes and Drawings, Yager Museum, Oneonta, New York Small Sculptures and Drawings, Krasl Art Center; Saint Joseph, Michigan Sculpture in Erie: installation of sculpture in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania
2006 LSU Museum of Art; Baton Rouge, Louisiana David Hayes Sculpture Erie Art Museum Annex Gallery; Erie, Pennsylvania Small Sculptures and Drawings Longview Museum of Fine Arts; Longview, Texas David Hayes Sculpture
2007 Awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Albertus Magnus College; New London, Connecticut Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware Ohio Small Sculptures, Drawings and Outdoor Sculpture The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art; Laurel, Mississippi Outdoor Sculpture Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida David Hayes Sculpture
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