About Daniel

Heyman’s journalistic approach to portraying the oppression and courage of his chosen subjects earned him the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and a 2009 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Today he integrates elements from across cultures to create his art.

Daniel Heyman

Public Collections

Heyman’s work is included in numerous public collections including:

Exhibitions

Past solo exhibitions include:

  • “FlightAir/Fire“, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • “Summer Fall Winter Spring” at Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI;
  • “Bearing Witness” — a national touring show seen at Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, NY; Linfield College Art Gallery and the White Box Gallery in Portland, OR; Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, CA; List Gallery of Swarthmore College, PA; and Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, CT;
  • “Abu Ghraib Detainee Interview Project” at the DePaul University Museum in Chicago, IL
  • “Eye Witness” at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

His work has been included in important group shows around the US including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, the Meade Museum at Amherst College and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Academia:

Heyman earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College. Currently Heyman teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Princeton University.

Awards

  • a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)
  • a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2009)
  • numerous RISD and Princeton University Professional Development Grants
  • residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Awagami Paper Factory, the MI-LAB Nagasawa Art Park, Japan and the Fine Arts Work Center

Press

James F. Jeffrey : Le Monde, Digital Release

James F. Jeffrey : Le Monde, Digital Release

August 4th, 2021

James F. Jeffrey : « L’armée américaine a fait un boulot catastrophique en Afghanistan »” Le Monde, digital release August 27, 2021 (print format August 29, 2021).

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Conflict Embodied and Expressed

Conflict: Embodied and Expressed

December 10th, 2020

A video featuring work by Daniel Heyman and Orit Hofshi

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