For the past four years, Daniel Heyman has concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Heyman traveled to meet these survivors in Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 45 former detainees, painting or drawing their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. He has also met and drawn the portraits of survivors of the September 16, 2007 Blackwater USA attacks at Nasoor Square in Baghdad. Closer to home, Heyman has drawn portraits of African American men in Philadelphia emerging from troubled youths in and out of prison and homeless veterans living in a shelter in north Philadelphia. He is currently making constructions from etchings printed on plywood as well as new portrait projects.

Heyman's work is included in such public collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, RISD Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2009), three RISD Professional Development Grants and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and Nagasawa, Japan.

Recent exhibitions of Heyman’s work were held at the Nathan Cummings Foundation; University of Iowa Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art; New York Public Library; List Gallery, Swarthmore College and Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University. He has lectured nationally, most recently at Princeton Museum, Carleton College, Hood Museum and Cranbrook.

Reviews of his work have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America and The Boston Globe. Heyman holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania and currently teaches at Princeton and RISD. He grew up on Long Island, NY.

Academic research/areas of interest

For the past four years, Heyman has concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Heyman traveled to meet these survivors Jordan and Turkey where he has talked face to face with over 45 former detainees, painting or drawing their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. He has also met and drawn the portraits of survivors of the September 16, 2007 Blackwater USA attacks at Nasoor Square in Baghdad., Closer to home, Heyman has drawn portraits of African American men in Philadelphia emerging from troubled youths in and out of prison, and homeless Veterans living in a shelter in north Philadelphia. His current work is making constructions from etchings printed on plywood, as well as new portrait projects.

Fall 2018 Courses

• PRINT-4645-01 Japanese Papermaking
• PRINT-4650-01 Relief I Projects
• PRINT-4650-02 Relief I Projects

Wintersession 2019 Courses

• PRINT-4525-01 *Japan: Paper, Temples & Prints

Spring 2019 Courses

• PRINT-8965-02 Collaborative Study
• NMSE-8900-21 ISP Non-major Elective