David Best

David Best is an internationally acclaimed artist well known for building large elaborate temples, modifying and decorating automobiles and buses, and creating intricate sculptures out of found materials. David’s art career started at the age of six years old with his taking classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he later received a master’s degree in sculpture. David’s work is collected by preeminent museums and art collectors.

Since the beginning of this millennium, David and the Temple Crew have become renowned for their work at the Burning Man Festival held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Similar works have now been replicated in communities from Nepal to Ireland, with other international locations on the horizon.

David works out of Petaluma in Sonoma County, California, where he resides with wife, Maggie, and a bevy of farm animals, trucks, and an assortment of mutant vehicles.