David Hartt’s photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations offer a sensitive and concise portrait of contemporary post-industrial, post-communist, and late-capitalist societies. The artist 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.
Read MoreBorn in Montréal in 1967, he now lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (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 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.
Text courtesy Galerie Thomas Schulte.
