David Baskin received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 1987.  One-person exhibitions include Freight+Volume Gallery, NYC; Sculpture Center, NYC; Arts Brookfield, Grace Building Lobby, NYC ; Ingalls & Assoc., Miami, Fl and Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Selected group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC; Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; CHART Gallery, NYC; Flag Art Foundation, NYC; Carolina Nitsch, NYC; Carriage Trade, NYC; Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium; Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC; Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, NY; Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy; Musée de Design et d'arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland;; Leslie Heller Gallery, NYC; Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg, Austria. Honors and awards include Dieu Donne Fellowship; NYC; McDowell Fellowship, NH; Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Yaddo Fellowship, NY; Commission through Brookfield Properties for a lobby installation at the Grace Building, NYC ; Commission through Back to Healing at the Gabriel Hotel, Miami, FL. He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York Institute of Technology and was a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, University of Buffalo, NY and University of Nebraska- Lincoln. David Baskin was one of the original members of the Brooklyn based non-profit art organization Smack Mellon and he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.