Guy Dill

Guy Dill was born in Florida in 1946, and grew up in Mailbu, California with his mother who was a painter. In 1979, Dill graduated from the Chouinard Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA with BFA Honors. Today he is one of the renowned contemporary masters of American abstract sculpture, whose works are collected and exhibited extensively around the world. Both his bronze and marble sculptures, while not figurative, often suggest the lines, curves, and lithe swoop of bodies and movement itself. Dill’s sculptures range in size from smaller works for indoors to larger works for outdoors or larger interior spaces. His works are included in many important museum, public and private collections, including: the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Whitney Museum of Art, NYC and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Dill has received many awards in the course of his career including the Theodoron Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1971; first prize in the American Show of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974; two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1974 and 1981; and in 2000, the Stars of Design Lifetime Achievement for Art Award from the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. Although most of his pieces are concentrated in southern California, his work can be found all around the globe. It is a great honor to have one of his pieces bring light to the city of Davis.