BenjiHart.com

© 2023-2024. All rights reserved.

Portrait by William Frederking, 2023. Logo by Bria Royal, 2019.

INSTA
TWITTER
PATREON

BENJI HART is an interdiscplinary artist, author, & educator whose work centers Black radicalism, queer liberation, & prison abolition.

A light-skinned Black femme with dark, short hair and beard in white undershirt and navy pants stands with one hip slightly out, arms upheld and partially covering their face. Their nails are painted olive green.

Their words have appeared or are forthcoming in anthologies from Oxford University Press, Beacon Press, Haymarket Books, Pluto Press, and have been published at Time, Teen Vogue, The Advocate, The Funambulist, and elsewhere.


They have led popular education and arts-based workshops for organizations internationally, including Dissenters, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Forward Together, and Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network, and presented at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the American Repertory Theater, the National Museum of African American History & Culture, and Phillips Academy at Andover.


Their performances have been featured at Steppenwolf (Chicago, 2024); the Poetry Foundation (Chicago, 2023); La Goyco (San Juan, 2022); and Den Frie (Copenhagen, 2021).


They have received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, and are a Kistenbroker Family Artist in Residence at the Lab School.

Full CV