Born 1957 in
Chicago,
Illinois. Lives in
New york.
Since
the 80’s, Dan Witz is famous for his well known participation in the Street Art
Movement, helooks for night scenes, and depicts a wild and
fascinating world. On the first hand, his oil paintings with very fine
lines draw a very quite picture of the suburbs through the absence of soul. On the other hand, he shows bunches of people or animals,
dishumanized, alienated, insane, as if they were raised as batteries.
Between presence and absence, his paintings always deal with the identity of human beings in modern societies.
studies:
1980
Cooper Union. B. F. A
1979
Skowhegan: Summer
1975-77
Rhode Island School of Design
Awards:
2000
New York Foundation for the Arts: Fellowship
1998
Public Art Fund: in the Public Realm: Fellowship
1992
New York Foundation for the Arts: Fellowship
1982
National Endowment for the Arts: Fellowship
SOLO SHOW (SELECTION):
2009
Recent Works, Addict Galerie, Paris.
2008
Night painting, Stolen Space, Londres. In plain view,
DFN Gallery,
New York.
2007
Dan
Witz, Stolen Space Londres. Mosh Pit, Addict Galerie,
Paris
New Night Paintings,DFN Gallery,
New York.
2006 Up Late,
DFN Gallery,
New York.
2005
Night Paintings,
DFN Gallery,
New
York.
2003 DFN Gallery,
New York.
1999 Henry St settlement house,
New York.
1998 Clementine Gallery,
New York.
1995
Saint Peter’s Church,
New York.
1990 Miami Art Fair: in conjunction with Leila
Taghinia, Milani Gallery
1986 Semaphore Gallery,
New York.
1985 Semaphore East Gallery:
Leila Taghinia Milani Gallery,
New
York.
GROUP SHOW (SELECTION):
2009 Graffiti Group Show, Addict Galerie, Paris.
2008 SLICK 08, Art Fair, Addict Galerie, Paris. Dangerous
Women, DFN Gallery,
New York.
2007 Wooster on spring,
New York. Wet,
DFN GalleryNew York. Hors D’oeuvre, Addict Galerie,
Paris.
2006 Open Air,.StayGold GalleryNew
York. Addict, Addict Galerie,
Paris Smart
Ass, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco, (Curator: K. Nicholson).
2005 Submission,
Fuse Gallery,
New
York, (Curator: Juxtapoz). Animal Tales,
DFN Gallery,
New York. NYC,
DFN Gallery,
New York.
2004 Species,
LindaWarrenGallery,
Chicago. 4 Artists 4 Walls: Interior Paintings,
DFN Gallery,
New York.
Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, Gigantic Art Space,
New York.
2003 The Burbs,
DFN Gallery,
New York.
2001 Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence, Sotheby’s,
New York.
1999 Fifteen, NYFA Fellows at Deutsche
Bank,
New York.
1996 Do you see what 1 see?,
Thread Waxing Space,
New York. The Most Important Thing in the World,
Alternative Art Fair (Curator: Bill Arning)
1995 Street Art, PS 122
Gallery,
New York.
1994 Sleeping and Waking,
Wellesley-Ross Gallery,
New York.
1992 Sunday by the Bay, Benefit
auction for AIDS research.
Bellport
Village,
New York.
1991 Lyric: uses of beauty at the end of the century, White Columns
Gallery, Gallery,
New York.
1988 100 Years: Social and Political Art on the Lower East Side, PPOW Gallery,
New
York.
1987 Contemporary Arts Council,
Museum of Modern Art, Saatchi Corp.,
New York.
1986 Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986,
IndianapolisMuseum
of
Art,
Indianapolis.
