Hotchkiss School’s Tremaine Art Gallery presented an exhibition of pulp paintings, folding screens and works on paper by Daniel Heyman Sept. 5 to Oct. 11, 2025. “Adrift” is Heyman’s second solo exhibition to feature pulp paintings made while in residence at the Awagami Paper Factory in Japan.
“Adrift” starts with the idea of flowing water, an important element in the making of paper, and unspools a world of sunsets over serene ponds, threatening seas, capsized boats, landing geese, and swimmers all in lush and vibrant colors. Taken together the show presents a watery world in flux, where nothing feels grounded.
After a lifetime of making work that addressed subjects including human rights abuses and the destruction of war, in “Adrift” Heyman created a body of more personal work during a residency at Awagami in June and July 2025.
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Heyman (Dartmouth AB 1985; UPenn MFA 1991) is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2009). He has been an artist in residence at Dartmouth College, MacDowell, Yaddo, Fine Arts Workshop, and several times at the Awagami Paper Factory in Japan, where he returned in July 2025. Heyman’s work is in collections across the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Getty Research Institute.
Heyman was Department Head of Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021–22, where he has taught since 2004, and has taught at Princeton since 2010. His two most recent solo exhibitions are Flight/Air/Fire at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, and The World Has Gone Crazy and So Am I at the University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery.
Heyman will also be an artist in residence at Hotchkiss. He will create work in the print studio, lead a 10-day workshop in traditional Japanese woodcuts for students, and demonstrate various techniques in Studio Art classes.
