Dave Cole was born in 1975 in Lebanon, NH and received his BA in 2000 from Brown University. He has exhibited at national and international museums including: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, Vestlanske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway, Nasjonal Museet, Oslo, Norway, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands. In 2009 he participated in The Big West Festival in Melbourne, Australia, one of many recent international projects. Cole was the recipient of the 2009 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum's annual Rappaport Prize and his work has been reviewed in Artforum; ARTnews; Modern Painters; Art Papers; and The Boston Globe, among others. His work is included in the collection of Danforth Museum, Wellington Management, 21c Museum, RISD Museum, and Jaermuseet Vitenfabrikken.