Cort Hartle is an artist living and working in the Philadelphia area. Their multidisciplinary practice explores personal and collective memory, storytelling, and relationships to place. They are interested in the complex connections between people and their social and physical environments, and the processes through which they are both built and changed.
Cort's work has been exhibited nationally by art spaces such as Field Projects (NYC), Big Medium (TX), the Johnson Fine Arts Center at Northern State University (SD), and the Department of Contemporary Art (FL), among others, and is found in private collections both nationally and internationally. Notable publications include Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art at the University of South Florida Press, Creative Quarterly, and the anthology Cipher: The Semiotics of Love and Desire. They believe in the power of art as tool for collective liberation and publish the zine Substrate, a quarterly anthology of revolutionary optimism and imagination. They earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of South Florida in 2018 where their research interests centered around material culture and public history.