Life
David Hayes 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 Medal of the Arts 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.
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