Bio

About Scott Kling

Scott Kling is a sculptor, entrepreneur, and environmental advocate based in Tappan, New York. He is passionate about finding the human form within natural landscapes and bringing the distinctive beauty of stones to life. His preferred medium is marble, and he seeks out unique stones from quarries around the world to guide his artistic process. He also sculpts in wood and clay, and casts in bronze.

Scott’s work has been described as visual poetry, which combines the figure with the abstract. With influences ranging from the stone-to-stone carvings of the first sculptors of the Cycladic Islands to modern artists such as Brancusi, Scott uses both ancient and traditional techniques including hammer and chisel, rasps, and minimal use of power tools. He also collaborates with his wife Cynthia Fuller-Kling, a longtime dancer, yoga therapist, and movement expert to choreograph the shapes and forms of his sculptures, particularly the Human Landscapes Collection.

Scott’s work has been recognized with numerous distinctions, including two consecutive jury selected Red Dot awards at the Art Students League’s Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery (2024, 2025), and recent exhibits at Gallery OneTwentyEight, NY (2024) and Fridman Gallery, NY (2025). He has exhibited with the Societe Nationale Des Beaux Arts’s (SNBA) juried shows in Paris since 2016, with exhibitions at the Louvre, the Grand Palais and the Réfectoire des Cordelierse. His work has been displayed at the U.S. Embassy and UNESCO’s world headquarters in Paris. In 2025, the SNBA named Scott a Sociétaire of the Foundation. For the past 5 years, he has served as SNBA’s lead U.S. representative, responsible for sourcing and nominating the American delegation of artists. He was represented by Dorothy’s Gallery in Paris for 12 years, until the owner’s retirement, with annual solo and group shows during this period. Scott has received commissions from significant art collectors in New York and Paris. He was represented by Ober Gallery in Kent, CT from 2010-2020.

Scott has been carving stone since the age of 13. He has held several residencies in Pietrasanta, Italy, the epicenter of stone carving at the foot of the Carrara Alps, including SEM Studio (2009, 2010), Peralta Hamlet Studio of Fiore de Henriquez (2010, 2016), and Studio La Polveriera (2020). He has also studied at Walter Driesbach Studio in Cincinnati, OH, and Art Students Leagues in New York and Kentucky, among others. From 2008 to 2020, he maintained a studio and residence on Grace Knowlton’s artistic compound in Sneden’s Landing, NY. He holds degrees and certificates from Connecticut College (1981), Parsons School of Design (1985), and Sarah Lawrence College (1979), and was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow (1981).

Outside of sculpting, Scott is engaged in activities that foster human rights and equality through the development and distribution of solar and wind energy products to help the 1 billion plus people around the globe who live off-grid. He has helped design, manufacture and distribute over 1 million solar powered lights to people who have no reliable source of clean electricity or light.