David Hartt and Nicola Pezolet in Conversation
23 March 2026, 3:00pm
Concordia University, EV 3-711
David Hartt, The Histories (Old Black Joe), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, August 21, 2021 – January 2, 2022. Organized by Aram Moshayedi, Robert Soros Curator, with Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant. Image courtesy the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. (Photo: Joshua White)
Join artist David Hartt for a presentation of his most recent 10 years of production across photography, film, textiles and sculptures. This will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Nicola Pezolet about how histories of architecture and urban space have informed his practice. This event is co-sponsored by the Montreal-based cultural magazine Spirale: their latest Winter 2026 issue titled Brutalismes includes an essay by Dr. Pezolet on the recent exhibition Skyscrapers by the Roots at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, to which David Hartt contributed the multimedia work Horizon.
David Hartt lives and works in Philadelphia where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. His work explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time. Recent exhibitions include Metabolic Rift at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin, Les gratte-ciels par la racine, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica, at The Art Institute of Chicago, and Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art. Hartt’s work is in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum, New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum, MCA, Chicago, MoCP, MoMA, the National Gallery of Canada, Nasher Museum of Art, RISD Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hartt is a Pew Fellow, a Graham Foundation Fellow and a United States Artists Cruz Fellow; his work is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin.
Nicola Tullio Pezolet is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Concordia University. He obtained a PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT in 2013. He has published articles and critical reviews on different artists, architects, and exhibitions in academic journals such as Grey Room, October, Future Anterior, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Journal of Canadian Art History. In recent years, he has examined the question of the synthesis of the arts and considered the intersections between the sacred and profane in the postwar period in Western Europe and North America. He is currently working on the body of churches designed by Roger D’Astous.
