Né en 1957 à Chicago dans l'Illinois. Vit et travaille à New York.
Reconnu depuis les années 80 pour sa pratique du Street Art, Dan Witz traque
les ambiances nocturnes dans ses tableaux, et nous dépeint un monde
aussi fascinant que sauvage sur lequel il fond comme un oiseau de
proie. D'un côté, ses huiles sur toile aux lignes épurées nous offrent
une vision feutrée et calme de la banlieue mais dont toute âme qui vive
est absente. De l'autre, ses hordes d'hommes ou d'animaux, par leur
profusion, paraissent déshumanisés, comme élevés en batterie. Entre
absence et présence, ses œuvres négocient sans cesse avec l'humain.
ÉTUDES:
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
Expositions individuelles (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.
2007 Wooster on spring,
New York. Wet,
DFN Gallery New York.
Hors D’oeuvre, Addict Galerie, Paris.
2006 Open Air,. StayGold Gallery New
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,Linda
Warren Gallery,
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, Indianapolis
Museum of Art, Indianapolis.
