Collection: Kent Ullberg

Kent Ullberg 

A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of the world’s foremost wildlife sculptors. He studied at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm and has worked at museums in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Africa, and Denver, Colorado. He currently resides on Padre Island in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has received many prestigious honors, including the Briscoe Legacy Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Animal Artists, and the Rungius Medal—the highest distinction bestowed by the National Museum of Wildlife Art—awarded to artists, authors, and conservationists for significant contributions to the interpretation and conservation of wildlife and its habitat. In 1990, his peers elected him a Full Academician (NA), making him the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to receive one of the highest tributes in American art.

He has installed over one hundred public sculptures in the United States and abroad. His installations in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Omaha, Nebraska—the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever created, spanning several city blocks—earned him the coveted Henry Hering Medal from the National Sculpture Society in New York City.

In the summer of 2017, Millesgården in Stockholm, Sweden, hosted a retrospective exhibition of forty-two of Ullberg’s sculptures. In September 2019, he installed a twenty-one-foot monument titled Wings of Hope, Hands of Healing at the Mays Cancer Center in San Antonio, Texas.