Daniel Kany owns the Daniel Kany Gallery which is located at 89 Exchange Street in Portland, Maine's historic Old Port district. The gallery features contemporary glass art, painting and sculpture.

Daniel Kany grew up in Waterville, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College ('88, Magna cum Laude and Magna cum laude in Pschologica) where he majored in Romance Languages and Pyschology and minored in Art History. He received High Honors for his research thesis on "creativity." Kany taught public school in New York City for a year before doing his graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of the History of Art with Michael Fried and Yves-Alain Bois.

In 1991, Kany returned to New York City. He worked for seven years at Columbia, mostly doing curatorial and archival work in the most significant collection of American architectural drawings at Avery Library. During this time, Kany exhibited his paintings at galleries in New York City, Santa Fe, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Kany also worked as a drawing instructor, musician and a freelance curator. His first major museum exhibition, A Dream Well-Planned: The Empire State Building, ran in the first floor galleries of the Museum of the City of New York for eight months in 1998.

In 1998, Kany moved to Seattle where he worked as Associate Director and Director of the William Traver Gallery and later the Friesen Gallery in both Seattle and Sun Valley. When Kany was the Director in 2005, Friesen Gallery received The Best Gallery in Seattle award from the Seattle Weekly's prestigious Reader's Poll (circulation 250,000). Kany has served on the faculty of the Bellevue Art Museum and lectured widely about glass art and the history of the studio glass movement.

Kany was elected to the Board of Directors of Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) in 1999 where he has served variously as Chair of the Board, Secretary, Curator, Chair of Programming, and Director pro tem. Kany is still an active member of CoCA's board. Kany has served as the President of the Sun Valley Gallery Association. Recently, Kany co-founded the Gallery Association of Portland Maine of which the Secretary.

Daniel Kany’s books include two catalogs on the work of Lino Tagliapietra, widely held as the most respected glassblower in the world, and Robert Kantor: The Hope Series and Other Sculptures (Seattle: CoCA Editions, 2006) and Judith Kindler: Consume (Seattle: CoCA Editions, 2007).

Daniel Kany lives in Cumberland, Maine with his wife and two sons.