Dan Witz

Born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Lives in New york.

Since the 80’s famous for his well known participation in the Street Art Movement, Dan Witz looks for night scenes, and depicts a savage and fascinating world. One the one side, his oil paintings with very fine lines draw a very quite picture of the suburbs through the absence of the soul. One the other side he shows bunches of people or animals, disshumanized, alienated, insane as if they were run by battery. Between presence and absence, his paitings always deal with the identity of human beings in modern societies.

Press/Film/Digital Media

2009
Juxtapoz Magazine, march 2009

2007
"Dan Witz in Williamsburg" Juxtapoz Magazine, september 2007
"Dan Witz",Virus Magazine, 2007
"Art street" Renate Krieger Wonderland, 2007
Jasmin, april 2007
VSD, april 2007
Nusign, january 2007

2006
"Painting", Adbusters, 2006
"Submission". Juxtapoz Magazine, september 2006

2005
"Art of the Street" Time Magazine, 2005
"To Be Seen" Documentary featuring Witz, Swoon, Michael DeFeo, Skewville, 2005
Trigger Magazine, 2005
"Roundtable: Street Art" The Morning News, 2005
"Hoodies" Ramage, 2005
"Muralism", Public art review, 2005

2004
"Dan Witz Rocks So Hard It's Scary" Wooster Collective, 2004
Elevated Magazine, 2004

2002
Beautiful/decay
"Quiet Art Project at Ground Zero" Artnet, 2002
The Art Project: Artists Respond to Terrorism, 2002

1998
"Art Funded by Public Art Fund," Hourly News, NY-l CH 1, New York, 1998

1995
"The Headless Horsemen" New York Magazine, 1995
"First Person" Public Art Review, 1995

1994
"ln Heroin Haunts, Art Goes to Hoodies" New York Newsday, 1994
"The New Outsiders" Paper, 1994
"High 5" Pretty Decorating, 1994

1984
Umbrella Magazine, 1984

1983
Sites, 1983

1981
"Best Bets" New York Magazine, 1981
Arts Magazine, 1981


FILM

"In Plain View", vidéo Dan Witz
"Prank", vidéo Dan Witz, 2004
"Do Not Enter", vidéo Dan Witz
"Straatkunst", vidéo Dan Witz op AT5
"At Sidlee Amsterdam", vidéo Dan Witz