Cade Tompkins Projects

Daniel Heyman

The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University is currently exhibiting  Daniel Heyman’s I am Sorry It is Difficult to Start, April 3-May 26, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 5, beginning at 5:30 pm. The exhibition features Heyman’s Iraqi Portraits which “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.” Other works in the show include portraits of witnesses of the Blackwater/Nisour Square shootings and When Photographers are Blinded, Eagles Wings are Clipped, a monumental 65-part etching, which was included in an exhibition curated by Innis Howe Shoemaker at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2011).

Daniel Heyman’s work is in many prestigious collections including the Yale University Art Gallery and Beinecke Library, Yale University; Baltimore Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art and Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College; Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University; Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College; Free Library of Philadelphia; Getty Research Institute; Library of Congress, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New York Public Library; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, among others.

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 Fellowship in Fine Arts.  In 2009, Heyman received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Daniel Heyman’s work has been on view in recent one-person exhibitions at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York;  Linfield College Art Gallery, OR; Loyola Marymount College, Los Angeles, CA; Zilkah Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT among others.