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