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About
David Hartt, born in 1967 in Montréal, Canada, creates work that unpacks the social, cultural and economic complexities of his various subjects. For Hartt, “place” is a way to investigate community, narrative, ideologies, and the intersection of private and public life. His photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations offer a sensitive and concise portrait of contemporary post-industrial, post-communist and late-capitalist societies.
David Hartt studied at the University of Ottawa and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2016, he took part in the Rauschenberg Foundation’s residency program. He is the recipient of a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant. In 2012, Hartt was named a United States Artists Cruz Fellow, and in 2011 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
Recently, David Hartt has had solo exhibitions at the Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York (2023), Cincinnati Art Museum and David Nolan Gallery, New York (2022), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Glass House, New Canaan (2021), Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago (2020), the Art Institute of Chicago (2018), the Graham Foundation, Chicago (2017), the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), LAXART, Los Angeles (2015), and Or Gallery, Vancouver (2015).
Additionally, his work has been included in several group exhibitions, including Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at MoMA (2021), Here to Stay at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021), Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at MoMA (2015), America Is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), and Shine a light/Surgir de l’ombre: Canadian Biennial at the National Gallery of Canada (2014). His work is in the public collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Henry Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He lives and works in Philadelphia.
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Works
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Selected Works
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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NATURPHILOSOPHIE
David Hartt 4 November TO 23 December 2023 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEGalerie Thomas Schulte presents 'Naturphilosophie', an exhibition of new works by David Hartt. For his...View Exhibition -
HAPTIC FEEDBACK
GROUP SHOW 18 January TO 29 February 2020 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEAs the first exhibition in 2020, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a group exhibition featuring works...View Exhibition -
NEGATIVE SPACE
DAVID HARTT 8 July TO 26 August 2017 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEDavid Hartt’s photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations offer a sensitive and concise portrait of our...View Exhibition -
YOU DON´T NEED A WEATHERMAN
GROUP SHOW 10 December 2016 TO 28 January 2017 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe starting point for the artists featured in You Don’t Need a Weatherman are investigations...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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David Hartt / Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Solo Project Opening 14 June 2025, 3 pmThe artist David Hartt (*1967, Montréal) presents a new video work in the sculpture garden of the museum. In the immediate vicinity of Georg Kolbe’s...Read more -
David Hartt / MAC Montreal, Canada
Group Exhibition 7 March to 10 August 2025While the earlier artworks offer a contrasting yet representative view of some important tendencies at the time, the more recent productions make use of historical...Read more -
Fabian Marcaccio / Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition 30 August to 19 October, 2024Galerie Anke Schmidt presents the solo exhibition Structural Groundlessness.Read more -
David Hartt / Salon Hannam, Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibition 4 to 14 September 2024Designed by C/O (Curatorial Office), established by former Whitney Museum curator Christopher Y. Lew, alongside fellow curator Jee Young Maeng, the exhibition Everyday Nature brings...Read more -
David Hartt / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY, USA
Exhibition Curation & Participation 14 May 29 October 2023The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, presents Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed at...Read more -
DAVID HARTT / CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, USA
DUO EXHIBITION 30 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 15 JANUARY 2023Commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Natural World is a collaboration between artists John Edmonds and David Hartt, poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant, and organizing...Read more -
David Hartt / The Glass House, New Canaan, CT, USA
Solo exhibition 16 April to 15 November 2021David Hartt: A Colored Garden is the first artist-designed garden to activate the 49-acre historic site. Hartt’s work explores histories lying dormant in the landscape...Read more -
David Hartt / MoMA, New York, USA
Group exhibition 27 February to 31 May 2021MoMA’s first exhibition to explore the relationship between architecture and the spaces of African American and African diaspora communities, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America...Read more
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