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 Bloomington 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 over 400 exhibitionsDavid Hayes Art Foundation archives and his work is included in some 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 on the grounds of the David Hayes Sculpture Fields, an open air art museum open to the public. He died of leukemia at his home there on April 9, 2013. He was 82.
In 2021, Hayes' work and grounds were the subject of an hour-long television broadcast shown on some 200 PBS stations nationwide produced by Legacy List with Matt Paxton.
Work in public collections Source: David Hayes Art Foundation archives
United States Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fleming Museum, University of Vermont; Burlington, Vermont First National Bank of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana Wichita State University; Wichita, Kansas Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee Wilbraham & Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania Philbrook Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky Dubuque Museum of Art; Dubuque, Iowa Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa
Connecticut Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Art School; West Hartford, Connecticut Housatonic Museum of Art; Bridgeport, Connecticut Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut New Britain Museum of American Art; New Britain, Connecticut University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut University of Hartford; West Hartford, Connecticut University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut Wadsworth Atheneum; Hartford, Connecticut Westminster School; Simsbury, Connecticut William Benton Museum of Art; Storrs, Connecticut
District of Columbia Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C. George Washington University; Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"Torso, (sculpture)". SIRIShttp://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=8210
Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida Dade County Art Collection; Miami, Florida Frost Art Museum; Miami, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida Von Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida City of Fort Pierce; Fort Pierce, Florida Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida
Massachusetts Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts Boston Public Library; Boston, Massachusetts Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial; Brockton, Massachusetts DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Lincoln, Massachusetts Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massachusetts Gund Hall, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts; Springfield, Massachusetts Williams College Museum of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts
New Hampshire Currier Museum of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire Dartmouth College; Hanover, New Hampshire
New York Elmira College; Elmira, New York Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College; Clinton, New York Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York Harry Guggenheim Collection, Nassau County Museum of Art; Sands Point, New York National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nelson Rockefeller Collection; Tarrytown, New York Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; Hamilton, New York University Art Museum, State University of New York; Albany, New York Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, New York
New York City Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, New York Museum of Modern Art; New York City Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City
Europe De Porceleyne Fles; Delft, Holland, Netherlands Struktuur 68NV; The Hague, Netherlands Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Paris, France
Solo exhibitions Source: David Hayes Art Foundation archives 2024 Vertical Motifs at the Bushnell Plaza; Hartford, Connecticut David Hayes Small Sculpture with curation by Robert Donston, South Windsor Public Library; South Windsor, Connecticut David Hayes Sculpture at the Peacock House Foundation; Fort Pierce, Florida Vantage Points, Sculpture Field Photos, Booth & Dimock Library Gallery; Coventry, Connecticut
2023 Selection of Relief Sculpture, Spirol Art Gallery at CT State Quinebaug Valley; Killingly, Connecticut Remarkable Works Exhibition, Greenwood Glassblowing Studio Gallery and School; Riverton, Connecticut Vantage Points, Sculpture Field Photography at the Dye & Bleach House Gallery; Willington, Connecticut Fifteen Sculptures at the Busch Library; Annapolis, Maryland David Hayes | MAN OF STEEL: Selected Works from the Estate of David Hayes, Burgess Modern + Contemporary; Fort Lauderdale, Florida David Hayes Small Sculpture, Boccara Gallery; West Palm Beach, Florida
2022 Sculpture in the Circle at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
2021 You Gotta Have Art, a Legacy List with Matt Paxton hour-long documentary broadcast nationally on PBS David Hayes Outdoor Museum; Annapolis, Maryland Sculpture in Downtown Branford; Branford, Connecticut
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 Sculpture in Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert 365; Northeast Harbor, Maine
2019 The Ventana Series, Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa (exhibit travels) Sculptural Adornments: David Hayes Jewelry, Georgia Museum of Art; Athens, Georgia (exhibit travels) 24 Sculptures in Gainesville Parks; Gainesville, Florida David Hayes Jewelry, Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut (exhibit travels) 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 The Ventana Series, Swope Art Museum; Terre Haute, Indiana (exhibit travels) The Ventana Series, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum; Fort Smith, Arkansas (exhibit travels)
2017 Totem Sculpture, Anita Shapolsky Gallery; New York, New York Sabrina, Memphis Brooks Museum; Memphis, Tennessee Radio interview by Connecticut Public Radio's Diane Orson: Connecticut Sculptor David Hayes Transformed Steel Into Art.
2016 Small Vertical Motifs, Commenoz Gallery; Key Biscayne, Florida Straight from the Barn, Emmanoel Lavagnolli Fine Art Gallery in Wynwood; Miami, Florida Small Sculptures and Gouache Studies, Center For Creative Education; West Palm Beach, Florida Small Sculpture and Gouache Studies, Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida David Hayes Sculpture, The Perfect Provenance; Greenwich, Connecticut Small Sculpture, Arte Fundamenta; Wynwood, Florida David Hayes Sculpture, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art; Greenwich, Connecticut David Hayes Sculpture at the Dubuque Museum of Art; Dubuque, Iowa
2015 Sentinel Sculptures at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens; Jacksonville, Florida David Hayes Sculpture at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art; Wichita Falls, Texas David Hayes Sculptures, Project Space Gallery, SUNY College at Oneonta; Oneonta, New York Large and Small, Hartford Public Library Gallery; Hartford, Connecticut Sculptures on Campus, SUNY College at Oneonta; Oneonta, New York
2014 Small Sculptures and Gouache Studies, Wiregrass Museum of Art; Dothan, Alabama David Hayes Sculpture at the Jundt Art Museum; Spokane, Washington Maquettes and Gouache Studies at the Housatonic Museum of Art; Bridgeport, Connecticut Dragonfly: Sculpture at the Springfield Museums; Springfield, Massachusetts Recent Small Sculptures at M+V Art Gallery; Miami, Florida Small Sculpture at the Parmigiani Fleurier 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 dies April 9, 2013 David Hayes Sculpture, 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 of Art; Dothan, Alabama
2012 Small Sculpture, Gouaches, and New Totems, Garrison Art Center; Garrison, New York 20 Sculptures at the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky Sculptures at the Westfield State University, Downtown Art Gallery; Westfield, Massachusetts
2011 Sculpture at One North Broadway; White Plains, New York 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 the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
2009 Hayes Family Show: Three Generations. White Plains Library; White Plains, New York
2008 David Hayes: 60 sculptures in White Plains, New York. 2007 David Hayes: Sculpture. 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 Louisiana State University 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 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 via the Erie Art Museum
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
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
2002 Lyric Theater; Stuart, Florida – Outdoor Sculpture Bradley International Airport; Windsor Locks, Connecticut – Small Sculptures
2001