DANIEL HEYMAN has spent several years making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he has talked face to face with over 50 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. For this work, Heyman has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Heyman's work has been shown widely, most recently at Swarthmore College and Wesleyan University. 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. 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, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, and the Special Collections Library at American University.

He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and currently teaches at Princeton, and RISD. He grew up on Long Island.