A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of world’s foremost wildlife sculptors. He studied at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm and worked at museums in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Africa and Denver, CO. After living in Botswana, Africa, for seven years, of which 4 yrs as curator at the Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery. He has made his home permanently in the United States where he now lives on Padre Island, Corpus Christi, TX. He also maintains a studio in Loveland, CO. Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has been honored with many prestigious awards. In 1990 his peers elected him a Full Academician (NA), thus making him the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to receive one of the greatest tributes in American Art. A selection of his memberships include the National Sculpture Society; the American Society of Marine Art; the Allied Artists of America; Nature in Art, Sandhurst, UK; the National Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, OK which awarded him the Prix de West, the foremost recognition in Western Art. He is a recipient of the Briscoe Legacy Award,the Life-time Achievement Award from the Society of Animal Artists, and the Rungius Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, given to artists, authors and conservationists who have made significant contributions to the interpretation and conservation of wildlife and its habitat. Best known for his monumental works executed for museums and municipalities across the globe, his Fort Lauderdale, FL and his Omaha, NE installations are the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever done, spanning several city blocks. Both earned him the coveted Henry Hering Medal from the National Sculpture Society, NYC. for outstanding collaboration amongst patron, architect, and sculptor. A recent monumental installation is “Snow- Mastodon”, a life-size bronse Mastodon placed outside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. During the summer of 2017 the Carl Millesgarden Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, hosted a retrospective show with forty-two of Ullberg’s sculptures. In September 2019 he installed a 21ft monument “Wings of Hope, Hands of Healing”at the Mays Cancer Center in San Antonio, TX, dedicated to all physicians and medical personal of the institute.