The Artwork of David Skora
The Artwork of David Skora
Masters of Fine Arts, 1989 School of Visual Arts
New York City, New York
Bachelor’s of Science (Graphic Design), 1981 Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor of Graphic Design, 2012-Present Associate Professor of Graphic Design, 2005-2011 Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, 2003-2005 Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design, 1994-2003 Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, Connecticut
Professional-In-Residence Fine Art, 2001-2003 University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut
Adjunct Professor Graphic Design & Fine Art, 1990-2001
University of New Haven West Haven, Connecticut
Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design, 1990-1991 Paier College of Art
Hamden, Connecticut
PUBLICATIONS
“The Crack of Dawn,” 2012 Sketchbook Project: Limited Edition ArtHouse Coop
Brooklyn, New York
“I am the Cure,” 2010
Mail Me Something: Limited Edition ArtHouse Coop
Brooklyn, New York
Featured Artist, 2007 Cezanne’ s Carrot Online Literary Magazine
Painting featured as Front Cover, 2006 Libbon Literary Magazine, UK
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graphic Designer/Design Consultant/ Freelance Illustrator, 1991-Present
Fine Art Painter/Sculptor, 1981-Present Board Member, 2005-Present
The Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery Wisdom House Retreat & Conference Center Litchfield, Connecticut
Director, Seton Gallery, 2001-2005 University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut
Founding Board Member, 1997-2003 Still Mountain Center
A non-profit cross-cultural arts organization Kent, Connecticut
AWARDS
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Permanent placement of my sculpture Cascade
For a newly created sculpture garden on the Naval base at Kittery, Maine. 2021
The Gibbons Prize for New England Sculptors
New England Sculptors Association Outstanding Abstract Sculpture 2015
Best of Show-Other Materials, 2014 Sculpture Walk 2014 Awarded by the Sculpture Walk committee Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sculpture Commission, Caste Bronze
Permanent Installation, Fernwood Arboretum and Sculpture Garden, Niles, Michigan, 2014
Purchase Foundation Award
Permanent Sculpture installation at the Performing Arts Center
New Buffalo, Michigan, 2009
Purchase Award
Border to Border # 6, National Drawing Exhibition Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, Tennessee
Juror’s Choice: New Work 95
New Work Exhibition ARTSPACE
New Haven, Connecticut
AWARDS Continued
Purchase Award
The 25th Biennial Exhibition of Works on Paper University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Arts Exclusive Sculpture Award
Ninth Annual Wintonbury Art Juried Exhibition University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut
Michigan Foundation for the Arts Award
A Road Show
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit Detroit, Michigan
Michiana Tri-state Painting Award
South Bend Art Center South Bend, Indiana
Best of Show - Painting Award
1984 Kalamazoo Area Show The Kalamazoo Art Institute Kalamazoo, Michigan
Merit Scholarship Based on Artistic Achievement
School of Visual Arts New York, New York
FINE ART EXHIBITIONS (Abridged)
Art in Public Places, McGhee Tyson Airport
One sculpture placed at McGhee Tyson Airport Knoxville, Tennessee. 2023-2024
Sculpture Loan Program
Sculpture placed in a park in Crestwood Crestwood, Missouri. 2023-2025
Art in the Park 2023
Two sculptures placed in Elm Park Worcester, Massachusetts. 2023
Sculpture Now, The Mount
Edith Wharton Estate
Sculpture selected, “Kind of Blue” Lenox, Massachusetts. 2023
University of Saint Joseph Sculpture Installation
sculptures selected to show indefinitely West Hartford, Connecticut. 2022-2028
The Peabody Institute Grounds Sculpture Show
Sculpture, Danvers, Massachusetts June - September 2013-2015
FINE ART EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
City of Danbury, Connecticut
My sculpture “Bent” was be placed on display until 2022 in the downtown area.
Danbury, Connecticut. 2021-2022
Beyond the Walls: Sculptures from the New England Sculptors Association,
My sculpture “Watchman” is included in this show at the Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, Massachusetts. 2021
University of South Dakota
1 Sculptures on exhibit, Vermillion, South Dakota 2020-2022
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Permanent placement of my sculpture Cascade For a newly created sculpture garden on the base Kittery, Maine. 2021
Franconia ArtWalk
Invitation to show three sculptures in three locations in
Franconia, New Hampshire
Franconia, New Hampshire 2020-2021
Bennington Museum Sculpture Garden
Invitation to show sculpture at the Sculpture Garden at Bennington Museum Bennington, Vermont 2020-20223
Small Works / Five Points Gallery
Juried show at the Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut 2020
NBOSS 2020-2022
Invitation to show a sculpture at the outdoor sculpture show in Bennington,Vermont
North Bennington, Vermont -2020-2023
Drawing Today 2020
36 International Artists July 25 - August 8, 2020
Mason City sculptures on Parade City wide sculpture show, Mason City, Iowa 2018-2021
Fayetteville-Cumberland County Arts Council Public Art Exhibition
Sculpture placed in front of City Hall Fayetteville, North Carolina. 2022-2023
Down East Sculpture Exhibition
Two sculptures selected,
Pitt County, North Carolina. 2022-2024
Sculpture Now, The Mount
Edith Wharton Estate
Sculpture selected, “Kind of Blue” Lenox, Massachusetts. 2022
Austin Town Hall Park, Chicago Illinois
“Shapeshifter” was placed on display at Austin Town Hall Park.
Chicago, Illinois. 2021-2023
Governor’s Residence Sculpture Garden
Invitation to show sculpture at Connecticut Governor’s Residence Sculpture Garden
Hartford Connecticut, 2014-2019
Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, 2018 Unison Arts Center
New Paltz, New York
University of Sioux Falls
2 Sculptures on exhibit,
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2017-2020
5th Annual Meredith Sculpture Walk
Invitation to show sculpture 2 sculptures Meredith, New Hampshire, 2018-2021
SculptureWalk Sioux Falls 2015-2021
Sculptures displayed in downtown area Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2013-2021
Sculpture Tour Eau Claire 2017-2019
Invitation to place a sculpture in the Eau Claire sculpture walk Eau Claire, Wisconsin 2017
Gifts from the Garden
Sculptures by the members of NESA The Gardens at Elm Bank Massachusetts Horticultural Society Wellesley, Massachusetts 2018
Boston Design Center
Invitation to place a sculpture in the front of the Boston Design Center Boston, Massachusetts 2016
NESA Exhibition at The Crane Estate
Invitation to show my sculpture “the Geometry of Space” at the Carne Estate Residence Sculpture Garden Ipswich, Massachusetts 2019
City Art Walking Sculpture Tour 2014
Sculpture Park Invitation Mankato, Minnesota May 2014 - May 2015
Sculpture Commission, 2012 Symphony, Welded Steel Sculpture Permanent Installation
New Buffalo Performing Arts Center New Buffalo, Michigan
The Noble Horizons Fortieth Anniversary Invitational Sculpture Show, May-October 2012 One of Ten Artists invited to Exhibit
David Skora: Dreams, Myths, and Subconscious Doodles, 2005
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
The Marie Louise Trichet Gallery at the Wisdom House
Litchfield, Connecticut
Drawing Today, 2005 New Arts Gallery Litchfield, Connecticut
Eye: Mirror of the Soul, National Juried Exhibition,
2004
Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts Fredricksburg, Virginia
Sixth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, 2004 Unison Arts Center
New Paltz, New York
Three Artists/An Exhibition, 2004 Paintings of David Skora Washington Arts Association Washington, Connecticut
Paintings, 2000
University Gallery
The University of New Haven New Haven, Connecticut
Meditations, 1992 Homer Babbidge Gallery University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut
Sculpted Spaces, Historic Places
Two Historic New England's properties — the Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum and Visitor Center in South Berwick, Maine
One sculpture at each sculpture garden June 5, 2015 - September 8, 2015
University of South Dakota
2 Sculptures on exhibit, Vermillion, South Dakota 2013- 2016
Downtown Expressions Art in Public Places Stamford Downtown Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Invitation to show 4 sculptures in down town Stamford, Connecticut 2016
Bushnell Plaza Sculpture Garden
Invitation to show 2 sculptures at the newly created Sculpture Garden at Bushnell Plaza, Harford Hartford Connecticut, 2014-2019
Art Brownie Rainbow, 2012 Paintings
Gallery INDEX G
Toronto, Canada
Open Your Eyes Studio Tour, 2011 Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Torrington, Connecticut
Beneath the Surface: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture,
1991
Simon’s Rock of Bard College Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Small Wonders Exhibition, 2010 Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) Annapolis, Maryland
12th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition,
May-October 2010
Unison Arts Sculpture Garden New Paltz, New York
David Skora/New Paintings, 2009 One Person Show
New Arts Gallery
Litchfield, Connecticut
11th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition,
May-October 2009
Unison Arts Sculpture Garden New Paltz, New York
Invitational Sculpture Garden Exhibition,
May 2009-June 2010 Water Street Market New Paltz, New York
Somerby’s Landing Sculpture Park,
June 2007- June 2008 Newburyport, Massachusetts
New Paintings, 1997 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery Kent, Connecticut
This is an abridged listing of shows and awards I have accrued over the years. My work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and can found in private and public collections throughout the country. I have also had many one-person shows as well as receiving awards in Design and Fine Art.
Private viewing is available upon request. For more information or to make an appointment to visit, please get in touch with me from the email listed below. Thank you.
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