Hartt travels extensively to develop his research based work. In 2015, Hartt was included in the survey
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at the
Museum of Modern Art. In the wake of
Hurricane Maria in 2017, Hartt produced a series of interventions on Habitat Puerto Rico, a housing development initially designed by
Moshe Safdie and subsequently abandoned by the Puerto Rican government in the 1970s. 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.‘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. For me it's an amplifier, it's a way through which I can begin to explore these ideas.’In 2021, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrated their reopening after a $228 million reconstruction with the exhibition New Grit: Art & Philly Now in which Hartt is featured. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Hartt is represented by David Nolan Gallery. He is also a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. == Awards and honors ==