Gary Lee Price was born on May 2, 1955 in Twin Falls, Idaho. His parents were soon divorced, and he lived with his mother in Germany. When he was six years old, his mother and step father were killed in an auto accident so he returned to Idaho to his father and step mothers home. After his schooling in Montpelier, Idaho, he studied at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. He went to Jerusalem for six months in a Brigham Young University Study Abroad program. When he returned to the states, he transferred to the University of Utah where he studied with Alvin Gattins, Stan Johnson, Demais Smith, and Ed Fraughton. He was the most comfortable and therefore focused on the figure and received his BFA in 1982.
Meanwhile he had worked as a ranch hand, jewelry salesman and manager of the Stan Johnson Studio and Foundry in Mapleton, Utah. The entrepreneurial artist has been sculpting and full time self employed since 1981, the same year he married Lanea Richards. His work is a family and neighborhood affair. His wife does the accounting, inventory and public relations for the studio, an operation many artists have to hire a firm to manage. Price often asks his neighbors and locals to pose and issue opinions on works in progress. The couple have seven sons and live at the base of Wassatch Mountains in Springville, Utah.
Gary Lee Price was born on May 2, 1955 in Twin Falls, Idaho. His parents were soon divorced, and he lived with his mother in Germany. When he was six years old, his mother and step father were killed in an auto accident so he returned to Idaho to his father and step mothers home. After his schooling in Montpelier, Idaho, he studied at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. He went to Jerusalem for six months in a Brigham Young University Study Abroad program. When he returned to the states, he transferred to the University of Utah where he studied with Alvin Gattins, Stan Johnson, Demais Smith, and Ed Fraughton. He was the most comfortable and therefore focused on the figure and received his BFA in 1982.