Dan Witz is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY and has been active as both a street and realist artist since the late 1970’s. He received his BFA from Cooper Union (1981) was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts grant (1983) as well as a fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts (1992 and 2000). Witz has shown nationally with Jonathan LeVine Gallery, White Walls Gallery, DFN Gallery and internationally with Stolen Space Gallery and Addict Gallery. Witz has been featured in several notable publications such as New York Magazine, Public Art Review, The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, The New Yorker, Harpers, and Adbusters. His first book, The Birds of Manhattan was published by Skinny Books in 1983. His second book, In Plain View, as well as a calendar, Hummingbirds, 2011, were released in 2010 by Gingko Press.