Daniel Lee Postaer is an American artist whose photographs reside in permanent museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Pier 24 Photography. Postaer’s large-scale prints examine his relationship to and experience of time, the photographic pause, and the ways in which humanity reconciles with and resists modernity. His debut monograph, Mother’s Land, features his series of Chinese photographs taken between 2014 and 2019 and published in November 2025 by Deadbeat Club. Daniel was the Artist-in-Residence with RiverLA from 2014 to 2018, and his award-winning photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Postaer’s Boomtown series of San Francisco photographs was featured in the main gallery of Pier 24 as part of the exhibition Looking Forward. Currently, his work is on view at The de Young Museum in the group show Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California, and it is also featured at fjk3 Contemporary Art Space in Vienna in the group exhibition Passants parmi les pierres, curated by Thomas Demand.
Having left an international sports marketing and entertainment career for the life-changing pursuit of picture-making, Postaer received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he was awarded the Fellowship in Photography (2014-2015). Daniel lives and works in Los Angeles, teaches breathwork meditation, and enjoys life as a husband and father to two young daughters and two pups.
