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Biography
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.
Life
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts 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 received a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a recipient of the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. During his life, he had 400 exhibitions and his work is included in 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
In 2007, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College.
Hayes resided in Coventry, Connecticut, where he had 54 acres of land to exhibit his works. He died of leukemia at his home there on April 9, 2013.He was 82.
Work in public collections
- Museum of Modern Art; New York City
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts
- Currier Museum of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Paris
- Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan
- Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas
- Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
- University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona
- Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Wadsworth Atheneum; Hartford, Connecticut
- Elmira College; Elmira, New York
- Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial; Brockton, Massachusetts
- Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida
- Fleming Museum, University of Vermont; Burlington, Vermont
- First National Bank of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
- De Porceleyne Fles; Delft, Holland
- University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut
- Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio
- University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana
- Michael Schiavone and Sons; New Haven, Connecticut
- Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana
- Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C.
- Struktuur 68NV; The Hague, Netherlands
- Boston Public Library; Boston, Massachusetts
- Dartmouth College; Hanover, New Hampshire
- Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York
- Dade County Art Collection; Miami, Florida
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Williams College Museum of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts
- George Washington University; Washington, D.C.
- New Britain Museum of American Art; New Britain, Connecticut
- Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, New York
- PricewaterhouseCoopers; Hartford, Connecticut
- Russell, Gibson, Von Dolen, Inc.; Farmington, Connecticut
- Thiokol Corporation; Newtown, Pennsylvania
- University Art Museum, State University of New York; Albany, New York
- Lynch Motors; Manchester, Connecticut
- Housatonic Museum of Art; Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida
- Museum of Fine Arts; Springfield, Massachusetts
- Wichita State University; Wichita, Kansas
- Gund Hall, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
- The Norton Company; Worcester, Massachusetts
- National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nelson Rockefeller Collection; Tarrytown, New York
- Harry Guggenheim Collection, Nassau County Museum of Art; Sands Point, New York
- Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio
- Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Wilbraham & Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- Wondriska & Russo Associates; Farmington, Connecticut
- The Woodlands, Texas
- Philbrook Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Pfizer; New York City
- Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Hollister Corporation; Libertyville, Illinois
- Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut
- Pepperidge Farm; New Haven, Connecticut
- Olin Corporation; Cheshire, Connecticut
- Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut
- Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut
- BKM; East Hartford, Connecticut
- Hartford Art School; West Hartford, Connecticut
- University of Hartford; West Hartford, Connecticut
- Gerwun Jewish Heritage Foundation; New Jersey
- University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut
- Westminster School; Simsbury, Connecticut
- University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut
- James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania
- Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida
- Von Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida
- Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; Hamilton, New York
- Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College; Clinton, New York
- Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, New York
- City of Fort Pierce; Fort Pierce, Florida
- Office of Charles Moore; Owensboro, Kentucky
- Frost Art Museum; Miami, Florida
- Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida
- University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky
- William Benton Museum of Art; Storrs, Connecticut
- Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut
- Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida
- Dubuke Museum of Art; Dubuke, Iowa
- Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa
Solo exhibitions
- 2020
Sculpture in Downtown Naples, City of Naples, Naples, Florida
Sculpture in Danbury, Danbury Connecticut with CityCenter Danbury.
A Totem grows in Manchester, Town of Manchester Parks; Manchester, Connecticut
- 2019
Art Palm Beach art fair, West Palm Beach, Florida, via the David Hayes Art Foundation
Wallace Hall Art and Antiques Exhibition, New York City, via Garvey Rita Art and Antiques
The Ventana Series, Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa
David Hayes Jewelry, Georgia Museum of Art; Athens, Georgia (exhibit travels)
24 Sculptures in Gainesville Parks; Gainesville, Florida
Sculptural Adornments: David Hayes Jewelry. Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, Connecticut
Five large sculptures in Muscatine, Iowa; Muscatine Art in Public Places Commission.
- 2018
Outdoor Sculpture in downtown Winter Park, Florida; City of Winter Park, Florida
Connecticut Spring Antique Show, Hartford Armory, via Garvey Rita Art and Antiques
Art Miami New York fair at Pier 94, New York City, via Long Sharp Gallery
The Ventana Series, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
Market Art & Design fair, Bridgehampton, New York, via Laurence Fine Art, East Hampton
The Ventana Series, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Fort Smith, Arkansas (exhibit travels)
- 2017
Art New York fair via ACA Galleries, New York
Art Bites, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York City
Totem Sculpture, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City
Sabrina, Memphis Brooks Museum; Memphis, Tennessee
Market Art & Design fair, Bridgehampton, New York, via Laurence Fine Art, East Hampton
Yager Art Museum: In a Modern Vein:Contemporary Art from the Yager Museum Collection
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, Massachusetts via Lawrence Fine Art
Wallace Hall Art and Antiques Exhibition, New York City, via Bradbury Art & Antiques and Garvey Rita Art and Antiques
- 2016
Art Miami art fair at the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami, Florida
Context art fair at M+V Fine Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
The Original Miami Beach Antiques Show, Miami Beach, Florida with Alpen Art & Antiques
Small Vertical Motifs, Commenoz Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida
Art Palm Beach fair with Alpen Art & Antiques; Vail, Colorado
Straight from the Barn, Emmanoel Lavagnolli Fine Art Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Florida
Small sculptures and gouache studies, Center For Creative Education, West Palm Beach Florida
Clio Art Fair at Ale Berni Gallery, New York City
Small Sculpture and Gouache Studies, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Art Southampton fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery; Bridgehampton, New York
David Hayes Sculpture. The Perfect Provenance, Greenwich, Connecticut
Small Sculpture, Arte Fundamenta, Wynwood, Florida
David Hayes Sculpture, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Greenwhich, Connecticut
David Hayes Sculpture at the Dubuque Museum of Art; Dubuque, Iowa
Modern Sculptors of Indiana, Eskanazi Art Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana
- 2015
Art Wynwood fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery; Miami, Florida
Sentinel Sculptures at the Cummer Museum and Gardens; Jacksonville, Florida
Art Miami New York Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery; New York City
David Hayes Sculpture at the Wichita Falls, Texas Museum of Art
David Hayes Sculptures, Project Space Gallery, SUNY College at Oneonta; Oneonta, NY
Large and Small, Hartford Public Library Gallery; Hartford, Connecticut
Art Hamptons Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery; Southampton, New York
Sculptures on campus, SUNY College at Oneonta; Oneonta, New York
- 2014
Small Sculptures and Gouache Studies, Wiregrass Museum; Dothan, Alabama
David Hayes Sculpture at the Jundt Art Museum; Spokane, Washington
Maquettes and Gouache Studies at the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Sculpture at the Springfield Museums; Springfield, Massachusetts
Recent Small Sculptures at M+V Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Sculpture at Northwood Village; West Palm Beach, Florida
- 2013
David Hayes Sculpture, Contemporary Art Center; Peoria, Illinois
David Hayes: A Sculptor of Space and Nature, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College; Annapolis, Maryland
Hanging Screen Sculptures at the Lutz Children’s Museum; Manchester, Connecticut
David Hayes Sculpture at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana
Sentinel Sculptures at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Fort Wayne, Indiana
David Hayes Sculptures at the Wiregrass Museum; Dothan, Alabama
- 2012
Small sculpture, gouaches, and new Totems; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
20 Sculptures at Art Museum at the University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky
Sculptures at the WSU Downtown Art Gallery; Westfield, Massachusetts
Sculptures at the Governor’s Mansion, Hartford, Connecticut
- 2011
Sculpture at One North Broadway; White Plains, New York
Huntsville Museum of Art in conjunction with Huntsville’s Spaces Sculpture Trail
David Hayes Small Sculpture, George Waters Gallery, Elmira College; Elmira, New York
Sculpture at Goodwin College; East Hartford, Connecticut
- 2010
Art to the Avenue; Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut
Fathers & Daughters, The Greenwich Arts Council Presents In The Bendheim Gallery; Greenwich, Connecticut
Boscobel, In conjunction with the CURRENT show through Garrison Art Center
- 2009
The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions At The 1959 Inaugural. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Hayes Family Show: Three Generations. White Plains Library, White Plains, New York
- 2008
- David Hayes: 60 sculptures in White Plains, New York.
- 2007
- Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida
- Sculpture in Downtown Syracuse; Syracuse, New York
- The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art; Laurel, Mississippi
- Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio – Small Sculptures, Drawings and Outdoor Sculpture
- 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
- 2005
- Mobile Museum of Art; Mobile, Alabama – Eight Vertical Motifs
- Hartwick College; Oneonta, New York – 12 Sculptures on Oyaron Hill
- Krasl Art Center; St. Joseph, Michigan – Small Sculptures and Drawings
- Yager Museum of Art & Culture; Oneonta, New York – Small Sculptures and Drawings
- Erie Art Museum; Erie, Pennsylvania – Art Around Erie
- 2004
- FIU Biscayne Bay Campus; Miami, Florida – David Hayes Sculpture at Florida International University
- James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania – David Hayes Outdoor Sculpture Installation
- Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County and Core Developers, Florida – Exhibition Without Walls
- 2003
- Burt Reynolds Museum; Jupiter, Florida – Inaugural exhibition
- Orlando, Florida – 5 Screen Sculptures at the University of Central Florida
- Sculpture Garden & Studio at Gidion's; Kent, Connecticut – David Hayes Sculpture
- 2002
- Lyric Theater Sculpture Garden; Stuart, Florida – Outdoor Sculpture
- Bradley International Airport; Windsor Locks, Connecticut – Small Sculptures
- 2001
- Geary Design; Naples, Florida – David Hayes Sculpture, Graham Nickson Paintings
- Lyric Theater Sculpture Garden; Stuart, Florida – Outdoor Sculpture
- 2000
- Sasaki, Inc.; Watertown, Massachusetts; Sculpture, Maquettes, Wall Reliefs
- Fordham University Downtown; New York City – Wall Sculptures and Drawings
- Denise Bibro Fine Arts Inc.; New York City – David Hayes Steel Sculpture
- 1999
- Screen Sculpture Commission, Nicotra Group; Staten Island, New York
- Colgate University; Hamilton, New York – Sculpture, Maquette Reliefs
- 1998
- Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School; Windsor, Connecticut – Drawings, Maquettes, Reliefs, and Screen Sculptures
- City of Stamford, Connecticut and Stamford Town Center – Stamford Sculpture Walk: 59 Sculptures in Stamford, Connecticut
- Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School; Lakeville, Connecticut – Drawings, Maquettes, Reliefs and Polychrome Sculptures
- Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida – Vertical Motifs, Drawings, Maquettes and Large Vertical Motifs
- Appleton Museum of Art; Ocala, Florida – Large Vertical Motifs
- Stamford Center for the Arts, Rich Forum; Stamford, Connecticut – David Hayes: Paintings, Acrylic Landscapes and Studies
- Downtown Stamford and Stamford Town Center; Stamford, Connecticut – Sculpture in Stamford
- 1997
- 100 Pearl Gallery; Hartford, Connecticut – Sculpture, Drawings and Maquettes
- The Gallery, University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut – Sculpture and Paintings
- Southern Vermont Art Center; Manchester, Vermont – Screen Sculptures
- Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida – Screen Sculptures
- Orlando City Hall; Orlando, Florida – Screen Sculptures
- Hines Building; Boston, Massachusetts – Five Screen Sculptures
- Hayes Modern Gallery; Naples, Florida – Sculptures, Drawings and Macquettes
- 1996
- Prudential Center; Boston, Massachusetts – Screen Sculptures
- Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida – Screen Sculptures
- The Pingry School; Martinsville, New Jersey – Sculpture, Drawings and Macquettes
- 1994
- Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York – A Survey of Screen Sculptures – Sculptures, Macquettes and Drawings.
- 1993
- Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York – Screen Sculptures
- 1992
- Gallerie Françoise; Baltimore, Maryland – David Hayes—Outdoor Sculpture
- 1991
- Neville-Sargent Gallery; Chicago, Illinois – Sculpture, Maquettes, Drawings and Installation Photographs
- 1990
- Indiana University Art Museum; Bloomington, Indiana – Sculpture, Maquettes and Gouaches
- 1989
- Snite Museum of Art; University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana – Sculpture, Maquettes and Gouaches. Exhibition travels to Indiana University Art Museum
- 1988
- Station Plaza; Stamford, Connecticut – Outdoor Sculpture
- 1987
- Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut – Outdoor Sculpture and Wall Reliefs
- 1986
- Shippee Gallery; New York City – Vertical Motif Series
- 1985
- Visual Images Gallery; Wellfleet, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Gouaches and Small Vertical Motifs
- 1984
- Visual Images Gallery; Wellfleet, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Gouaches, and Painted Reliefs
- Shippee Gallery; New York City – Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper
- 1983
- Wesleyan Potters; Middletown, Connecticut – Sculpture, Drawings, and Ceramics
- Visual Images Gallery; Wellfleet, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Drawings, Ceramics and Small Bronzes
- Rensselaer County Council for the Arts; Troy, New York – Sculpture, Drawings, and Reliefs
- 1982
- Sunne Savage Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts – Sculpture and Drawings
- Elaine Benson Gallery; Bridgehampton, New York – Sculpture and Models
- Visual Images Gallery; Wellfleet, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Drawings, and Ceramics
- 1981
- Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson, New York – Outdoor Sculpture
- Old State House; Hartford, Connecticut – Sculpture on Old State House Lawn
- June 1 Gallery; Bethlehem, Connecticut – Sculpture and Drawings
- Visual Images Gallery; Wellfleet, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Gouaches, Ceramics
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus; Catonsville, Maryland – Cross Section, Drawings, Ceramics, Tapestries, Sculpture
- 1980
- Bethel Gallery and Bethel Library grounds; Bethel, Connecticut – Sculpture Inside/Outside
- Art Museum and City of Fitchburg; Fitchburg, Massachusetts – Sculpture, Drawings, and Ceramics
- Saratoga Performing Arts Center; Saratoga Springs, New York – Outdoor Sculpture
- Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, New York – Sculpture & Drawings
- 1979
- Amherst College; Amherst, Massachusetts – Sculpture
- Nassau County Museum; Sands Point, New York – Outdoor Sculpture
- The Gallery, G. Fox & Co.; Hartford, Connecticut
- White Mountains Center for the Arts; Jefferson, New Hampshire
- Plymouth State College; Plymouth, New Hampshire
- University Library, University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut – Sculpture in the Library
- 1978
- Museum of Fine Arts and City of Springfield; Springfield, Massachusetts – On Loan to Springfield: Sculpture, Ceramics, Drawings
- Choate Rosemary Hall; Wallingford, Connecticut – Outdoor Sculpture
- State University of New York; Albany, New York – Sculpture and Drawings
- Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut – Outdoor Sculpture
- Dartmouth College; Hanover, New Hampshire – Sculpture on Tuck Mall
- 1977
- Franz Bader Gallery; Washington, D.C. – Sculpture and Ceramics
- George Washington University; Washington, D.C. – Outdoor Sculpture
- Georgetown University Hospital; Washington, D.C. – Five Sculptures
- DeCordova Museum; Lincoln, Massachusetts – Outdoor Sculpture
- 1976
- Danbury, Connecticut – Sculpture in the City
- 1975
- Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York – Sculpture
- Brockton Art Center; Fuller Memorial, Brockton, Massachusetts
- 1974
- Copley Square and Dartmouth Street Mall; Boston, Massachusetts
- Martha Jackson Gallery; New York City – Ceramics
- Columbus Gallery of Fine Art; Columbus, Ohio
- Sunne Savage Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
- 1973
- Munson Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut
- Sunne Savage Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
- Albany Institute of History & Art; Albany, New York
- Gallery Five East; East Hartford, Connecticut
- 1971
- Harvard University, Hunt Hall; Cambridge, Massachusetts
- New Britain Museum of American Art; New Britain, Connecticut
- Agra Gallery; Washington, D.C.
- 1970
- University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut
- Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut
- St. Joseph College; West Hartford, Connecticut
- 1969
- Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
- Willard Gallery; New York
- Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona
- 1968
- Galerie De Haas; Rotterdam, Holland – Ceramics
- 1966
- Lyman Allen Museum; New London, Connecticut
- Houston Festival of Arts; Houston, Texas
- Willard Gallery; New York
- David Anderson Gallery; Paris
- 1963
- Root Art Center, Hamilton College; Clinton, New York – Sculpture and Drawings
- 1962
- University of Notre Dame and Indiana University; Notre Dame and Bloomington, Indiana – Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawing
- 1961
- Willard Gallery, New York City
- 1960
- Sharon Creative Art Foundation; Sharon, Connecticut – Two-man show with Cleve Gray
- 1959
- Lyman Allen Museum; New London, Connecticut
- Museum of Modern Art; New York – New Talent Series
- 1958
- Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut