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. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he has talked face to face with over 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. Three of these detainees have since been killed in the war.

The following museums and libraries have acquired portfolios of this work: Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; University of Iowa Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, Spencer Museum of Art; Smith College Art Museum; Vassar College Art Museum; Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University; Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College; North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Special Collections Library at American University.

Heyman’s work has been shown widely both in Philadelphia and nationally. His work can currently be seen at DePaul University Museum of Art, Chicago; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz; the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks and the Guilford Art Center in Guilfrod, Connecticut.

His work was featured in the Winter 2008 edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and “Male Desire: Homosexual Desire in American Art,” (Harry Abrams, ’05)by Jonathan Weinberg. Heyman holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and currently teaches at Swarthmore and RISD. He grew up on Long Island.