Bio

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 some 400 exhibitions and is included in over 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2007 was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College. He worked in Coventry, Connecticut and Paris, France over a period of six decades.

Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts
Currier Gallery of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Detroit Art Institute; 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
William Benton Museum of Art; Storrs, Connecticut
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Columbus, Ohio
University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana 
Michael Schiavone and Sons; New Haven, Connecticut
Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana
National Museum of American Art; Washington, D. C.
Struktuur 68NV; The Hague, Holland
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; 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
Price, Waterhouse, Inc.; Hartford, Connecticut
Russell, Gibson, Von Dolen, Inc.; Hartford, Connecticut
Thiokol Corporation; Newtown, Pennsylvania
University Art Gallery, 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
Nelson Rockefeller Collection, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Kykuit, Tarrytown, New York
Harry Guggenheim Collection, Nassau County Museum; Sands Point, New York
Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massachusetts 
Ohio Weslyan University; Delaware, Ohio
Hunter Museum of Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee 
Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut
Wilbraham and Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts 
Westmoreland County Museum of Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wondriska & Russo Associates; Farmington, Connecticut
The Woodlands, Texas 
Philbrook Art Center; Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pfeizer, Inc.; New York 
Pepperridge Farms, Inc.; New Haven, Connecticut
Olin Corporation; Cheshire, Connecticut
Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut
Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut
BKM, Inc.; East Hartford, Connecticut
Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan
Hollister Corporation; Libertyville, Illinois
Hartford Art School; West Hartford, Connecticut
University of Hartford; West Hartford, Connecticut
Mitchner Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania 
Gerwun Jewish Heritage Foundation, New Jersey
University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut
Westminster School; Simsbury, Connecticut 
Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut
Gulf Coast Museum of Art; Largo, Florida
Picker Art Gallery, Colgage University; Hamilton, New York
Nicotra Group; Staten Island, New York
Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida
Hamilton College; Clinton, 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
Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut
Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida
Dubuke Museum of Art; Dubuke, Iowa
Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa
Jorge and Darlene Pérez, Miami, Florida