Wild & Wonderful
Kent Ullberg’s bronze sculptures dot the landscape across Texas—a giant bison in Corpus Christi, a cougar on the hunt in San Antonio, and eagles with outspread wings in Houston and College Station. An internationally renowned wildlife artist, Ullberg has been honing his realistic yet inspired depictions of magnificent animals for 55 years, resisting the trend of abstract expressionism that dominated sculpture during his early days as an artist in the 1970s.
The Swedish native inherited his parents’ artistic sensibilities and an appreciation for nature from his family’s seafaring heritage. Ullberg worked summers on his grandfather’s trawler before studying art at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm. Afterward, he landed a job as curator at the Botswana National Museum and studied taxidermy while
