Daniel Peltz is an artist and international educator. Through public projects, performances and media installations, Peltz’ artworks explore complex social systems, attempting to provoke ruptures in the socio/cultural fabric through which new ways of being may emerge and be considered. To accomplish these goals, he uses a range of intervention, ethnographic and performance strategies. His projects often take the form of existing social systems to directly engage non-art audiences in the language of critical art practice.

Artifacts from Peltz’ public projects and performances have been exhibited in international solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Färgfabriken and Botkyrka Konsthall in Stockholm, the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Galleri F15 in Moss and the Norrköpings Konstmuseum. He has been a resident artist at Yaddo in the USA; Helsinki International Artist Program in Finland; International Artists Studio Program in Sweden; Artspace in Australia; Cemeti Art House in Indonesia; and Spaced in Western Australia.

From 2004-2020 Peltz served as Professor of Film and Video at the Rhode Island School of Design in the U.S. Since 2020, Peltz is Professor of Time and Space Arts with a specialization in Site and Situation Specific Art at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki. Growing out of a 2007 artistic-research Fulbright term in Sweden, Peltz co-founded the artist-run, long-term, place-based research project Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies in the glass-factory town of Rejmyre, Sweden that continues to be at the center of his art and curatorial practice.