After attending the School of Architecture at the University of Florida at Gainesville from 1946-1948, David Budd moved to NY. He attended the Art Students league in 1954 and frequented the Cedar Tavern, where he befriended fellow artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline. Budd worked in the Abstract Expressionist style until the late 1960s at which point he turned to more monochromatic work with highly textured surfaces. In 1956 his first solo exhibition was held at American University in Washington, DC followed by a significant 1958 exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York and a 1960 exhibition at Galerie Stadler in Paris (his first European exposure). He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant in 1973 and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984. Budd’s work is included in many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.