CC Hart (also known as Carolyn Hart) is a San Francisco–based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on synesthesia, embodied perception, and the medical humanities. Hart works across visual art, film, and literature, using her lived experience as a neurodivergent person to explore how internal sensory experiences—such as pain, color, and touch—can be translated into physical and narrative form.
CC Hart’s artwork has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and scientific contexts, including the Museum of Moscow and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting. Her work has appeared in exhibitions across the United States and Europe, including Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Her films, including Synesthetic Skies and The Pain Forms, have been screened in international synesthesia and interdisciplinary art programs.
As a writer, CC Hart’s work has been published in medical humanities journals including Ad Anima (University of California, Irvine School of Medicine) and The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (Columbia University), among others. Her essays and poetry examine synesthesia, illness, and neurodivergent experience, often bridging personal narrative with clinical and cultural frameworks. She also contributes to public-facing platforms, engaging broader conversations about perception and neurodiversity.
CC Hart’s research and presentations have been featured at institutions and conferences including Stanford University and the UK Synaesthesia Association. Her interdisciplinary scholarship spans neuroscience, literature, and art, with a focus on mirror-sensory synesthesia, pain perception, and narrative medicine.
Across her work as an artist, writer, and researcher, CC Hart investigates how invisible experiences—such as sensation, memory, and perception—can be made visible, shared, and understood. Her practice brings together creative and scholarly approaches to deepen understanding of human perception.
In parallel with her creative and research work, Carolyn Hart maintains a long-standing clinical practice in manual therapy, with more than three decades of experience. This work informs her interest in embodiment, pain, and the medical humanities.
