David Hartt is a Canadian artist and educator living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[1][2] In 2015, Hartt was included in the survey Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art.
[4] By placing videos, sculpture, sound, photographs alongside plants and other biomaterials, Hartt attempted to investigate the site not as the development it was intended to be but as what it became.
[5]‘What's interesting is not only the response to the failed utopia, but really using Safdie's project as evidence of which to examine the contemporary context of Puerto Rico, looking its status as colonial state, the debt crisis, the failures of new liberalism.
[9] Hartt was honored by the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at their fifth gala event in 2019.