David Simon was born in New York in 1970, and is a dynamic sculptor currently based in Los Angeles. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University and the New York Academy of Art. He has taught for more than 20 years in New York at the Sculpture Center and Grand Central Academy, as well as at Santa Monica College in California, and the Los Angles Academy of Figurative Art and is the founder of The Rome Workshops in Rome, Italy. He staged a solo exhibition at the John Pence Gallery in 2003 and has shown his work in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Canada and the Arnot Art Museum’s highly regarded Re-Presenting Representation exhibition in Elmira, New York. Simon has been a key participant in several monumental commissions. In 1997, he was in charge of the Leonardo da Vinci horse project, a monumental, twenty four- foot bronze sculpture presented to Italy by America’s Leonardo da Vinci Society. He also executed a thirty-five-foot bronze sculpture of Queen Catherine of Braganza, now in place in Portugal. In addition to bronze, Simon sculpts in beeswax and forton, a poly-resin material. He created maquettes and sculptures for films such as Where the Wild Things Are, Fantastic Four and Watchmen.