David Holland was born in Los Angeles, CA, and grew up in Chicago, IL. He studied Civil Engineering at Bucknell University, graduating in 1984 with a BS-CENG. He moved to Washington, DC and worked in construction management and roofing product representation sales. While visiting Chicago in 1986, he saw a show of Modernist sculpture that included examples of Moore, Hepworth, and Arp at the Chicago Art Institute. Upon returning home to Washington, DC, he hunted down and started carving local Marriottsville soapstone. He returned to school to study art in 1993 at the Corcoran School of Art, earning his BFA in 1996. He continued his art studies at Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox Graduate School of Art on the Lapota full scholarship and earning his MFA in 1998. He taught video and sculpture at The University of the South (Sewanee) and sculpture at the Milwaukee Institute of Art. His work has been commissioned and shown in galleries in Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, DC, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Colorado. He currently works in Broomfield, CO.