Kent Ullberg

Kent Ullberg was born in a small fishing village on Sweden's North Coast. During his formative years, he studied natural history, painting, and drawing. While studying art at the Konstfac School of Art in Stockholm, Sweden, he enrolled in a sculpture class and knew immediately that sculpture would be his life's work.

From 1966 to 1967, Ullberg traveled throughout Europe studying the Old Masters. While in Paris he studied the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), widely recognized as the most important sculptor of the Post-Impressionist era. In late 1967, he followed his childhood dreams to Africa, where he spent seven years working as a safari guide, taxidermist, and later as the Curator of the Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery.

While on safari in 1974, he met the Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History and later that year moved to Denver, Colorado, to work as the Curator of their new African Hall. After a year of museum work, Ullberg left his curatorial position to pursue sculpture full time. Ullberg's work has been exhibited all over the world including the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, the Salon de Automne in Paris, and the Peking Museum in China. He is an Associate of the National Academy of Design and belongs to the National Sculpture Society, the National Academy of Western Art and the American Society of Marine Artists.