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.
Public Collections
Heyman’s work is included in numerous public collections including:
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
American University, Special Collections Library
Baltimore Museum of Art
Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University
Brown University, List Art Center
Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscripts Library
Dartmouth College Rauner Special Collections Library
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College
Free Library of Philadelphia
Getty Research Institute
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University
Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
New York Public Library
North Dakota Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton University, Graphic Arts Rare Book Collection
RISD Museum
St. Louis Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Swarthmore College McCabe Library, Special Collections
University of Iowa Museum of Art
University of Virginia, A&S Small Special Collections Library
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
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
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).
