Keith Hartwig

Keith Hartwig is a social and spatial practice artist whose work engages with the ecological, cultural, and technological dimensions of climate change and environmental disruption. His artwork is shaped through a process of public engagement, drawing on the experience and insight of communities and individuals situated in these complex nature-culture assemblages, and collaboration with domain specialists, including climate scientists, microbiologists, and food producers. Resulting installations, exhibitions, and public performances have appeared in Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, NYC, El Alto, Bolivia and Linz, Austria. He is currently artist in residence at Integral Molecular in Philadelphia, supported by the BioArt Residency Program and the Esther Klein Gallery at the University City Science Center.

​​Keith is also the co-founder and creative director of the FUTUREFOOD project, a socially engaged art practice that envisions vibrant, resilient futures for food systems in a warming world—not through high-tech solutions, but by looking to traditional, sustainable culinary ways that have nourished human communities for thousands of years.

Education

• Master of Design Studies (M.Des) Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2016 — 2018)
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Temple University (2006 — 2011)

Companies

• Affiliate metaLAB (at) Harvard (2017)
• Adjunct Associate Professor Temple University (2013)
• Architectural Designer Supernormal. (2019 — 2021)
• Fellow Studio Echelman (2019 — 2019)
• Project Lead FKB Studio (formerly FK Productions/B Fabrication) (2016 — 2019)
• Exhibition Designs Assistant Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016 — 2016)
• Adjunct Professor Philadelphia University (2015 — 2016)
• Project Manager Veyko Inc. (2012 — 2015)
• Studio Assistant Bradley Pitts Studios (2011 — 2014)

PUBLIC ART & EXHIBITIONS

• FUTUREFOOD: Eastie Edition | supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts, 2020-21
• Glacken Field: Kettle Impressions, Cambridge, MA | commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, 2020-21
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Curatorial AI: Exquisite Corpse, 2020
• Cambridge Arts Council, Untold Possibilities, FUTUREFOOD, 2019
• Cambridge Arst Council, Untold Possibilities, Cold Chain, 2019
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Invasive Spirits, 2018
• 40K Gallery, Invasive Spirits, 2017
• Grove Project Exhibition, [re]assemble, 2017
• Reuptake, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, Surveillance Camera Selfie, 2017
• Esther Klein Gallery, Surveillance, 2016
• Fung Wah Biennale, Lux Transmissive, 2016
• Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia Map + Human Visual Field, internship + collaboration w/ Paula Scher, 2015
• Design Philadelphia, Pearl St Passage, 2015
• Pterodactyl Gallery, Intersection Art + Science, 2013

PUBLIC SPEAKING

• Venture Cafe, Philadelphia: Artist Talk, 2021
• SXSW Cities Summit, Invasive Spirits: Artist Talk, 2018
• Food + Design Symposium at Harvard University, Invasive Spirits, 2017
• Microsoft Reactor, Surveillance: Artist Talk, 2016
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Media Lab, Lux Transmissive: Artist Talk, 2016

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• New England Foundation for the Arts: Creative City Boston, Finalist, 2019
• Gerald M. McCue Medal for Highest Academic Achievement, Harvard GSD, 2018
• Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability, MDes Thesis, 2018
• Master of Design Studies, Research and Development Award, MDesThesis, 2018
• Student Forum Conference Fund, MDes Thesis, 2018
• Graduate School of Design Academic Scholarship, 2016-18
• ARCC/KING Medal Recipient, BArch Thesis, 2011
• Diener Brick Award Recipient, BArch Thesis , 2011
• DaVinci Prize Recipient, BArch Thesis, 2011
• Undergraduate Research Incentive Fund, 2010
• Temple University Academic Scholarship, 2006-11