Daisy Youngblood (b. 1945, Asheville, North Carolina) is an internationally exhibited sculptor who lives and works in Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. Educated at the Richmond Professional Institute in Virginia, she emerged on the New York art scene in the late 1970s and has since presented solo exhibitions at leading galleries including Willard Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, and McKee Gallery. Her work has been featured in landmark exhibitions at P.S.1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum. A recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (2003), Youngblood’s sculptures are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the North Carolina Museum of Art, among others. Her work has been widely reviewed and celebrated in Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, and The New York Times.