Daniel Heyman makes paintings, prints and drawings and works directly with paper fiber to make paper pulp paintings. His work addresses a variety of subjects including the landscape, human rights, and the coming climate change crisis. Heyman, (Dartmouth AB 1985; UPenn MFA 1991), is a recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and Pew Fellowships in the Arts (2009). He has been artist in residence at Dartmouth College; MacDowell; Yaddo; Fine Arts Work Center and several times at the Awagami Paper Factory in Japan, where he works on pulp paintings using kozo, gampi and mitsumata fibers. Daniel Heyman’s work is in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, LACMA and the Getty Research Institute. Heyman, who teaches at RISD (since 2004) and Princeton (since 2010), was Department Head of Printmaking at RISD in 2021-22. Recent solo exhibitions include “Flight/Air/Fire” at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University in 2023 and “Adrift” at the Tremaine Gallery at The Hotchkiss School in 2025. “The general and the specific, the impermanent and the eternal are held in uneasy tension,” Christopher Knight, The LA Times, 2011. “Heyman’s layered paintings, prints, and portraits possess an almost decorative lightness that often belies darker imagery, a more crucial and devastating truth,” Elizabeth Maynard, Hyperallergic, 2016. Daniel Heyman was born in New York and lives with his husband in Rhode Island.