David Phelps

David Phelps is an internationally collected sculptor whose work explores the deep connections between humanity and the notion of place and landscape. Phelps is a recipient of a regional NEA Fellowship and spent six months in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency at Kohler Co. Since his Arts/Industry residency, Phelps has been commissioned to create large scale sculpture across the United States including the Desert Wildlife installation at the Gate D Terminal of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. His most recent large-scale commissions have gone to Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City, Kansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; the University of Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Phelps’ works are in the Sandor Family Collection and The Beretta Foundation collection and many more institutional collections. Some notable private collectors of his work are golfer Greg Norman, Burt Reynolds, Connie Sellecca, and John Tesh, as well as Barbie Benton and her husband George Gradow. His works are also represented in many other collections across the United States and in Australia, China, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America. Phelps graduated from Humboldt State University with a BA in ceramics and received his MFA in sculpture from the University of Oklahoma, Norman.