Dan Witz (born 1957) is a street artist and realistic painter based in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated in 1981 from Cooper Union, Lower East Side, New York. Witz, constantly active since the late 1970s, is one of the pioneers of street art.
Dan Witz's paintings were exhibited in galleries across the United States and Europe. In June 2010, a monograph, "Dan Witz. In Plain View. 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Other", was published by Ginkgo press.
Dan Witz received a National Endowment of the Arts scholarship in 1983 and a New York Foundation of the Arts scholarship in 1992 and 2000.
In 1983, Dan Witz's first book, "The Birds of Manhattan", was published by Skinny Books. His second book, In Plain View, was released in June 2010 by Gingko Press. In September 2010, Gingko Press will publish "Hummingbirds, 2011".
Dan Witz's work has been published in Juxtapoz, Time, Arts Magazine, New York Magazine, Sites, Public Art Review, The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, The New Yorker, Harpers and Abusers. Dan was one of the first and most frequent contributors to the final website and street art blog, the Wooster Collective.
Witz's work can be seen in the 2010 film Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop. In 2006, Lou Auguste's documentary, Open Air, presented Dan Witz's studios and methods as well as five other American street artists: Faile, Skewville, Mike De Foe, Espo and Tiki Jay. Her work was also featured in Alice Arnold's 2005 film To Be Seen.
Dan Witz's paintings were exhibited in galleries around the world; including Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea, New York; Stolen Space Gallery, London, England; Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Addict Galley, Paris, France; White Walls, San Francisco, and DFN Gallery New York.