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Born October 19, 1957. Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
- 1980 Cooper Union. B. F. A.
- 1979 Skowhegan: Summer
- 1975-77 Rhode Island School of Design
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- 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 EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 Recent History Paintings Brugier-Rigail Gallery Paris
- 2019 “American Baroque”, Wunderkammern, Milan, Italy
- 2019 “Dan Witz at Wallworks”, Wallworks, New York
- 2018 “Mosh Pit Paintings 2010-2018”, Stolen Space Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2016 “Mosh Pits, Raves, and One Small Orgy: New Paintings by Dan Witz” Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
- 2014 “NY Hardcore”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
- 2013 “Public and Confidential”, Wunderkammern Gallery, Rome, Italy
- 2013 “Bar Shrines, Lamps and Other Paintings of Light”, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 “Prisoners 2012-2013”, Lazarides Gallery (Rathbone), London, UK
- 2011 “Mosh Pits, Human and Otherwise”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
- 2011 “WHAT THE %$#@? (WTF)”, White Walls, San Francisco, CA
- 2010 “New Night Paintings”, DFN Gallery, NYC
- 2009 “Dark Doings” Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2009 “New Work”Addict Gallerie, Paris, France
- 2009 “New Street Works” Sid Lee Collective, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2008 “Night Paintings” Stolen Space, London, England
- 2008 “In Plain View” Dfn Gallery New York, NY
- 2007 “Dan Witz” StolenSpace London, England
- 2007 “Night Paintings” DFN Gallery New York, NY
- 2007 “Mosh Pit” Addict Gallerie Paris, France
- 2006 “Up Late”, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005 “Night Paintings,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
- 2003 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999 Henry St. Settlement House, New York, NY
- 1998 Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
- 1995 Saint Peter¹s Church, New York, NY
- 1990 Miami Art Fair: in conjunction with Leila Taghinia Milani Gallery
- 1986 Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
- 1985 Semaphore East Gallery: Leila Taghinia Milani Gallery, New York, NY Semaphore Gallery New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 Erretratu Sc Gallery Bilbao, Spain
- 2020 “Here and Now: A Survey on New Contemporary Art”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- 2019 Urvanity Art Fair, Wunderkammern, Madrid, Spain
- 2019 Beyond the Streets, New York, New York
- 2019 “Movie Night”, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
- 2018 Beyond the Streets, Los Angeles, California
- 2018 POW! WOW! Antelope Valley, Lancaster, California
- 2018 “Exploring the New Contemporary Movement”, Thinkspace” Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
- 2018 “The New Vanguard II”, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California
- 2017 POW! WOW! Kaka’ako, Hawaii
- 2017 “LAX/DTW: Detroit Hustle II”, Thinkspace, Detroit Inner State Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
- 2016 POW! WOW! Worcester, Massachusetts
- 2016 “A Conversation Between Friends”, Jonathan Levine Gallery, Art Basel Miami
- 2016 Magic City – The Art of the Street, Dresden, Germany
- 2016 “Urban Dawn, II”, Mccaig-Welles, Beirut, Lebanon
- 2015 “Oh, The Places We Have Been: Rediscovering the Past”, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York
- 2015 “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now”, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas
- 2014 “Project M/6” Urban Nation, Berlin, Germany
- 2014 The Bushwick Collective Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
- 2013 “Cash, Cans & Candy”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
- 2012 “Bedlam”, Lazarides, London, UK
- 2012 “Escape the Golden Cage” Urban Art Exhibition. Vienna, Austria
- 2011 “Tou Scene” Nuart, Norway
- 2011 “Re-define”, The Goss-Michael Foundation, curated by: Future Tense and MTV, Dallas, TX
- 2011 “Hey Modern Art & Pop Culture”, Curated by Hey! Magazine, Halle Saint
- Pierre, Paris, France
- 2011 “Ha Ha Road”, QUAD Gallery, in collaboration with Mostyn Gallery; Derby, UK
- 2011 “The emergence of the Pop Imagist”, Curated by Jonathan
- LeVine and Giovanni Bonelli, Venice Bienalle, Venice, Italy
- 2011 “Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories”, C.A.V.E. Gallery, Venice
- (LA), Californiaa, in collaboration with ThinkSpace Gallery
- 2011 “Welling Court Mural Project”, Ad Hoc Art; Queens, NY
- 2010 “Urban Alchemist”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery at Art Basel, Miami, FL
- 2010 “From the Street to the Cube” White Walls, San Francisco, CA
- 2010 “Booked” Carmichael Gallery, Culver City, CA
- 2010 “5th Anniversary Show” Jonathan LeVine Gallery NY, NY
- 2010 “Looks Good on Paper” DFN Gallery NY, NY
- 2009 “Beach Blanket Bingo” Jonathan LeVine Gallery NY, NY
- 2009 “Graffiti Group Show” Addict Gallery, Paris, France
- 2009 Tattoo Culture, Brooklyn, NY
- 2009 “From The Streets of Brooklyn” Think Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Ad Hoc Art(Brooklyn, NY)
- 2008 “ Explisit Fantastic” Keep 6 Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, curated by Rafi Ghanaghounian
- 2008 “Dangerous Women”. DFN Gallery New York, NY
- 2007 “Wooster on Spring” New York, NY
- 2007 “Wet”. DFN Gallery New York, NY
- 2006 “Open Air”. StayGold Gallery Brooklyn, NY
- 2006 “Smart Ass.” Southern Exposure, Curated by K. Nicholson, San Francisco CA
- 2005 “Submission,” Fuse Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Juxtapoz
- 2005 “Animal Tales,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY “NYC,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
- 2004 “Species” Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2004 “4 Artists | 4 Walls: Interior Paintings,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY “Innocence Found,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY Gigantic Art Space
- 2003 “The Burbs,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
- 2001 “Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence,” Sotheby’s, New York, NY
- 1999 “Fifteen,” NYFA Fellows at Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
- 1996 “Do you see what I see?” Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY “The Most Important Thing in the World,” Alternative Art Fair Curated by Bill Arning
- 1995 “Street Art,” PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
- 1994 “Sleeping and Waking,” Wellesley-Ross Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992 “Sunday by the Bay,” Benefit auction for AIDS research. Bellport Village, NY
- 1991 “Lyric: uses of beauty at the end of the century.” White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988 “100 Years: Social and Political Art on the Lower East Side.” PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987 “Contemporary Arts Council” Museum of Modern Art, Saatchi Corp., New York, NY
- 1986 “Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, “ Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
PRESS/FILM/DIGITAL MEDIA
- 2020 “Art on Hold”, Eugene Weekly
- 2017 “Up Against the Walls”, Eugene Weekly
- 2017 “Dior Homme’s Fall Collaboration With Artist Dan Witz”, Haute Living
- 2016 “Writhing, Sweaty, and Ecstatic: The Realist Paintings of Dan Witz”, Vice, The Creators Project
- 2015 “Monkey Street Art Takes Aim at NIH Experiments,” Bethesda Magazine
- 2012 “Talents: Dan Witz”, Le Guide de l’Art Contemporain Urbain 2012, Graffiti Art Magazine
- 2011 “Dan Witz”, by: Alex Vaccani, TOH Magazine
- 2011 Summer- “New York” Elephant Magazine
- 2011 April- “Dan Witz Interview”, Interview by: Ann Timmermans, Beat Streets Magazine, Belgium
- 2011 “Bacchanalian Hardcore”, text by: Quique Badia Masoni, Devora Ran
- 2011 Spring/Summer- “In Plain View:30 Years of Artwork Illegal and Otherwise” Book Review by: Joseph Hart, Public Art Review
- 2011 “Lob der Nuechternen Rebellen” Essay by: Mathias Greffrath, Max Joseph- Bayrische Staatsoper; Munich/ Germany
- 2011 February- “Kunst Cops und Chaos” text by: Severin Mevissen, Musikexpress; Berlin/ Germany
- 2011 June- “Man on the Street” Art Talk, ARTnews
- 2011 “In Plain View” Interview by: Jeroen Smeets, VNA 13(Very Nearly Almost)
- 2010 “Dan Witz” Interview by: Anne and Julien, Hey, no.2 Modern Art and Pop Culture; Paris/ France
- 2010 “The Forces of Good and Evil” Interview by Marc and Sara Schiller, The Collectors
- 2010 “In Plain View: 30 Years of Artwoks Illegal and Otherwise” Silke Tudor, High Fructose magazine
- 2010 “Dan Witz, Punk Barroco” Joia Magazine and Kings 14, Santiago/ Chile
- 2009 Empty Magazine
- 2009 March- “The Evolutionary Function of Shuffle” Louis Gropman- Juxtapoz Magazine
- 2009 April- Overspray Magazine, Interview by Ali Gitman
- 2008 “Dan Witz, In Plain View” Produced by Dan Lewis
- 2007 “Dan Witz in Williamsburg” Chris Osborn Juxtapoz (on line)
- 2007 “Dan Witz” Jorge Flores-Oliver Virus Magazine
- 2007 “Art Street” Renate Krieger Wonderland
- 2006 “Lights in the Dark” The Morning News, Interview by Nicole Pasulka
- 2006 “Paintings” Adbusters
- 2006 “Submission” Juxtapoz Magazine
- 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, Interview by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
- 2005 “Hoodies” Ramage
- 2005 “Muralism” Public Art Review
- 2004 “Dan Witz Rocks So Hard It’s Scary” Wooster Collective
- 2004 Elevated Magazine
- 2003 March- “5 Tips” The Wooster Collective
- 2003 Bozack Nation, Interview by Brian Katz.
- 2002 Beautiful/Decay
- 2002 “Quiet Art Project at Ground Zero” Artnet
- 2002 The Art Project: Artists Respond to Terrorism
- 1998 “Art Funded by Public Art Fund” Hourly News, NY-1 CH 1, New York, NY
- 1995 “The Headless Horsemen” New York Magazine
- 1995 “First Person” Public Art Review
- 1994 “In Heroin Haunts, Art Goes to Hoodies” New York Newsday
- 1994 “The New Outsiders” Paper
- 1994 “High 5” Pretty Decorating
- 1984 Umbrella Magazine
- 1983 Sites
- 1981 “Best Bets” New York Magazine
- 1981 Arts Magazine
BOOKS and CATALOGUES
- 2019 “Dan Witz, Forgive me My Trespasses, Vol. 1 The Birds of Manhattan”, 1979/2000
- 2018 “Beyond The Streets Los Angeles”
- 2015 Juxtapoz Art + Culture Magazine, Jan issue n168 (Cover)
- 2014 MOSH PITS Dan Witz; PogoBooks & Jonathan LeVine Gallery
- 2014 “State of the Art, Discovering American Art Now”; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- 2014 “Juxtapoz Hyperreal”; Gingko Press
- 2014 “The Urban Contemporary Art Guide 2014”; GraffitiArt Urban Contemporary Art Magazine
- 2014 “A Brush WIth The Real” Figurative Painting Today by Marc Valli & Margherita Dessanay; Laurence King Publishing Ltd (Cover)
- 2014 Elephant Magazine #18-Spring 2014 “Painting Fights Back” (Cover); Frame Publishers
- 2012 “The Art of the Underbelly” introduction by: Haze, Curated by: Pac and Workhorse; Rizzoli International, New York, NY
- 2012 “Spring 2012 catalog”, Rizzoli International Publications
- 2011 “Delusional: The Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery” by: Caleb Neelon; Gingko Press
- 2011 “Graffiti and Street Art”, by: Anna Waclawek; Thames & Hudson World of Art, London
- 2011 “Hey! Modern Art and Pop Culture” Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
- 2011 “Walls and Frames, Fine Art From the Streets” by Maximilian Ruiz, Gestalten
- 2011 “Heroes and Villains” by: Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho, Zero Publishing
- 2011 “Creative Calendar Collection” curated by: Euphemia Toong, Published by: Basheer Graphic Books; Singapore
- 2011 “The Emergence of the POP imagist” text by: Carlo McCormick, curated by: Jonathan LeVine and Giovanni Bonelli, published by: Vanillaedizioni
- 2010 “In Plain View: 30 Years of Artwoks Illegal and Otherwise” Dan Witz, Introduction by David Lopes,Gingko Press
- 2010 “Hummingbirds 2011” Dan Witz, Gingko Press
- 2010 “Urban Interventioons: Personal Projects in Public Spaces” Introduction by: Lukas Feireiss, Essay by Alain Bieber; Gestalten, Berlin
- 2010 “Tresspass, A History of Uncomissioned Urban Art” Edited by Ethel Seno, in collaboration with Marc and Sara Schiller, Taschen
- 2010 “Stickers, From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art” DB Burkeman/ Monica LoCascio, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
- 2010 “Street Art Cook Book, A Guide to Techniques and Materials”, Benke Carlsson/ Hop Louie, Dokument Press
- 2010 “Beyond the street” Patrick Nguyen, Stuart Mackenzie, Gestalten
- 2009 “The Thousands, painting outside, breaking in” DRAGO
- 2009 “Untitled II, The Beautiful Renaissance” Gary Shove
- 2008 “Untitled, Street Art in the Counter Culture” Gary Shove
- 2008 “Street Art” Cedar Lewisohn Tate Publishing
- 2007 “Sticker City” Claudia Walde
- 2007 “Street Renegades” Francesca Gavin
- 2006 “The Art of Rebellion 2” Christian Hundertmark/ C100
- 2004 “Graffiti World” Nicholas Ganz
- 2003 “I NY New York Street Art” Kelly Burns
- 2002 “Stencil Graffiti” Tristan Manco
- 1985 “Street Art”, Allan Schwartzman
- 1983 “The Birds of Manhattan” Forward: William Zimmer
COLLABORATIONS
- 2017 Winter Collection with Kris Van Assche for Dior Homme
- 2015 “Actual Victims” with PETA
- 2014 “Empty The Cages” with PETA
- 2013 “Wailing Wall” with Amnesty International
