David Ort, born 1982, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Education
MFA Candidate, New York Academy of Art, Expected completion 2026
The Art Institute of Boston, 2000 - 2002
The Art Students League of New York, 2004 - 2006, 2016 - 2020, 2022 - 2024
Select Exhibitions
“The Lorax” Group Show, LICA, Queens 2025
“This is My Body” Edgerton Center for Performing Arts, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Feb 2023
“Every Day People” Group Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, December 2025
“New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition”, Group Show, New York Academy of Art, June 2025
“You're Breaking Up” The Sketchbook Gallery at Jane St Art Center, Woodstock, NY, 2024
“Salon de Refuse” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY, 2024
“Big Small Show”, Group Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, December 2023
“Gowanus Open Studios”, Group Show, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn NY, October 2023
“Flaming Pachinko Machine”, Animus, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, August 2019
“Flaming Pachinko Machine”, Animus, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, August 2013
“1,000 Pieces”, Animus. New School event for Democracy at Work, New York, NY, April 2013
“Glow Field”, Animus. PEX Summer Festival, Darlington, MD, July 2013
“Potential”, Animus, Freeform Festival, Woodstown, NJ 2012
“Thistle”, Animus, Electric Daisy Carnival, Meadowlands, NJ 2012
“Glow Wall”, Animus, Gratitude, New York, NY 2012
“Flaming Cactus”, Animus, DOT commission at Astor Place, New York, NY 2011
“Octopolis”, Animus, Escape to New York, Shinnecock Indian Reservation, NY 2011
“Honey Trap”, Animus, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV 2010
“1,000 Pieces”, Animus, Figment, Governors Island, New York, NY 2010
“Rhythm and Rest”, Animus, Figment, Governors Island, New York, NY 2009
“Buddha Bunny”, Animus, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV 2009
“Flickering Fountain”, Animus, All Points West Music and Arts Festival, Liberty Park, NJ 2009
“Arbor Animus”, Animus, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV 2008
“AdNauseum Lyceum Ephetametropeta” – Brooklyn, New York 2006
“Collision Machine Arts Salon” Collision Machine – Brooklyn, New York 2006
“Student Concours” ASL Gallery – Art Student League of New York 2006
“Student Concours” ASL Gallery – Art Student League of New York 2005
“New Works in Ink” Stain – Brooklyn, New York 2005
“Retrospect: The Year at Stain” Stain – Brooklyn, New York 2005
“Fontanelle” Moda – Brooklyn, New York 2004
Awards & Grants
Exhibitions Scholar Award
Jennifer Schipf Scholarship Award
New York Academy of Art MFA Academy Scholar Award
Black Rock Arts Foundation, for the project “1000 Pieces”, New York, NY, 2010
Greenwall Foundation, for the project “Rhythm and Rest”, New York, NY 2007
BAFFA Award, Honorable Mention
National Alliance for Excellence, Scholarship
Phyllis Streit Award, Scholarship
Art Institute of Boston, Scholarship