David Benjamin Bade (Willemstad (Curaçao), March 20, 1970) is a Dutch sculptor, installation artist, painter and draftsman. Bade studied from 1987 to 1991 at the teacher training (crafts and drawing) of the Hogeschool Holland in Diemen and then visited Ateliers '63 in Haarlem until 1993. Bade received the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1993 and in 2010 he won the Sikkens Prize, an irregular award from the Sikkens Foundation. [1] He was visiting professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bremen from 2000 to 2003. In 2006, together with Tirzo Martha, he founded the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) in Curaçao, both of which are directors. The IBB provides an artist in residency program, organizes a large number of cultural projects and offers training opportunities for local artists. Bade was a jury member of the Rotterdam Dolf Hanse Prize in 2016.