David T. Kessler was born in Park Ridge, New Jersey on September 5, 1950.  At the age of two, his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.  He attended Arizona State University, where he received the award for Outstanding Graduate in Studio Art in 1972.  In 1973, he married Susan and was one of 12 painters accepted into the graduate program at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his M.F.A. in 1975.  After seven years, David and his family moved back to Arizona , where he continues to live and work.  His paintings have been exhibited internationally since 1977, with shows in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Scottsdale, and New York.  Kessler's paintings are in the permanent collections of The Strasbourg Contemporary Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, The Santa Barbara Museum, The Barrington Art Center, and others.  Within Arizona, his work is in the collections of The Phoenix Art Museum, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Northern Arizona University Art Museum.