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, and Pier 24 Photography. Postaer’s wide scale prints examine his relationship and experience with time, the photographic pause, and the ways in which humanity reconciles and resists modernity. His debut monograph showcasing his series of China photographs (2014-2019) is forthcoming with Deadbeat Club in 2025. 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. Most recently, his Boomtown series of San Francisco photographs was featured in the main gallery of Pier 24 as part of the exhibition Looking Forward.
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). He is a proud board member of PhotoAlliance, San Francisco. Daniel lives and works in Santa Monica, teaches the practice of breathwork meditation, and is enjoying life as a husband and father to two young daughters and two pups.
