Daniel Heyman
Daniel Heyman’s work in drawing and printmaking is some of the most important contemporary sociopolitical art of our time.
Heyman traveled to North Dakota in the summer of 2015 to begin and complete In Our Own Words: Native Impressions is an outstanding project of 26 prints that chronicles stories of individual Native people who live within the tribal Nations of North Dakota. The project includes both portraits and text from a range of people in the community – business people, farmers, ranchers, teachers and politicians. The portfolio consists of 12 reduction, color-woodcut portraits, (by Heyman) and 12 accompanying letterpress prints, of their personal oral histories (by Lucy Ganje), as told while sitting for their portrait.
Heyman’s Iraqi Portraits give voice to the former detainees of Abu Ghraib prison. Between 2006 and 2008, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey with American lawyer Susan Burke to witness the testimony of former prisoners held at Abu Ghraib and later released without charges. While lawyers collected statements for the lawsuit, Heyman sketched the likenesses of the detainees.
Daniel Heyman received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (1991) and his AB from Dartmouth College (1985). In 2010 Heyman was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts. In 2009, Heyman received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Daniel Heyman’s work is in many prestigious collections including the Yale University Art Gallery and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Baltimore Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art and Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College; Getty Research Institute; Library of Congress; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; Minneapolis Institute of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum; and the RISD Museum, among others.
Submitted by Cade Tompkins Projects
