A Salt Lake City native, David attended Highland High School and studied art with Harold Petersen, founder of the Petersen Art Center. In 1987, he was the state winner in Art in the Deseret News Sterling Scholar Competition. He attended the University of Utah on a four-year scholarship where he studied with Ray Morales, Sam Wilson, and Paul Davis, among others. He received his BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration in 1994. He has worked for eight years as a graphic designer and illustrator for the University of Utah. His work for the University has received awards from the New York Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine, the Utah Advertising Federation, the Art Directors Club of Salt Lake, the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the University and College Designers Association.

In the last six years, David’s landscape paintings have been part of the Springville Museum of Art’s 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, 78th, and 79th Annual Spring Salons. He has won a Best of Show in the professional division at the Utah State Fair and has had a painting displayed in the Deseret News Landscape Art Show for the last five years. In the Summer of 1999, David won first place in the Freedom Festival Patriotic Art Exhibit in Provo. On New year’s eve 2000, he exhibited his paintings in the Provo City Courthouse as part of its “First Night” celebration. David was also invited by the Springville Museum of Art to submit a painting to its 150 year survey of Utah Artists titled Utah Art, Utah Artists as part of the Cultural Olympiad during the 2002 Winter Games. His paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Springville Museum of Art and Salt Lake County.