Born and educated in Scotland, Gwen Hardie lived and worked in London and Berlin before settling in New York City in 2000. Recent solo shows include; Alchemy of Light, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, April 2026 ; Under a Deep Orange Sun and a Pale Blue Moon, Arden + White, New Canaan, Nov/Dec 2024 and Thresholds, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Feb 2024.
Hardie’s paintings are shown regularly in Art Fairs in the USA, such as NADA, NYC and UNTITLED, Miami Beach, presented by Arden + White. She was the youngest living artist ever to be given a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ( now Modern One) in Edinburgh in 1994. Hardie’s work is in private and public collections such as Modern One – The National Galleries of Scotland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council, London, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Modern Collection, Lisbon.
Her work has been reviewed by The Roborant Review, Visual Art Source, The Semi-Finalist, Art In America, The New York Times, The Glasgow Herald, The New Yorker, The Scotsman, and The Independent among others. Hardie has received Fellowships at The Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy, VCCA, MacDowell and Yaddo in the USA.
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SOLO SHOWS, (selected)
2026 Alchemy of Light, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Apr 2 – May 2, 2026
2024 Under a Deep Orange Sun and a Pale Blue Moon, Arden + White, New Canaan, Nov 15 – Dec 21, (catalog)
2024 Thresholds, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Feb 2 – Mar 2
2021-22 Human Boundaries, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin, Germany, Nov 6 – Feb 26 2022 (catalog)
2013 – 2012 Boundaries, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Hebrides, Scotland (catalog) and An Lanntair, Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland (catalog)
2005 Face, Dinter Fine Art, New York City (catalog)
2001 Verge, Lindsey Brown, New York City
1996 Jason & Rhodes, London (catalog)
1994 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1994 Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh (catalog)
1990 Fischer Fine Art, London
1990 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (catalog)
1988 Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
1987 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (catalog)
GROUP SHOWS , (selected)
2023 Volume, a three person show, Arden + White Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2023 Artist Focus – Gwen Hardie at The Invisible Collection Townhouse, NYC, in collaboration with The Spaceless Gallery, NYC, Oct 2023- April 2024
2023 Gilles & Boissier, Paris in collaboration with The Spaceless Gallery
2022 A wandering between shadow and light, The Spaceless Gallery in collaboration with Maison Veronese, Paris, Sep 10- Dec 31, 2022
2022 Artists of the Galerie, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin, Sep 1 – 30
2021 One on One, Window display, changing display of Gallery artists, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin, Feb 19-13
2020 Pan Amsterdam Weekend, Chabot Fine Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2020 Summer Show, Chabot Fine Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019 Pushing paper, British Museum, London,
2015 REALITY ; Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2014 REALITY ; Modern and contemporary Painting, The Sainsbury Center, Norwich, UK, September 27 2014 – March 1st 2015
2013 Borderline; Depictions of Skin, Garis @ Hahn, NYC.
2013 Skin ; An Artistic Atlas. Royal Hibernium Academy, Dublin, March – April 2013
2013 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, Washington
2012 Royal Hibernian Academy Invitational show, Dublin
2012 The Artists Studio, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2001 Abstraction and Immanence, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York
2000 Five, Lennon,Weinberg, New York
1997 The 20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition”, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (prizewinner)
1993 Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
1988-1990 The New British Painting, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and touring America.
ART FAIRS
2026 NADA, NYC, presented by Arden + White, May 13-17, 2026
2025 UNTITLED, Miami Beach, presented by Arden + White, Dec 3-7, 2025
2024 UNTITLED, Miami Beach, presented by Arden + White, Dec 2024
2024 Future Fair, NYC, presented by Arden + White, May 1-4, 2024
2023 UNTITLED, Miami Beach, presented by Arden + White Gallery, Dec 6-12
2019 De Pan, presented by ASAP Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 The Hague Art Fair, presented by ASAP Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands, Sep
2018 The Hague Art Fair, presented by ASAP Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
2018 Kunst Rai, Art Fair, presented by ASAP Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
COLLECTIONS , (selected)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
British Museum, London
Reiach and Hall Hospital Collection, Glasgow
David Cohen, New York
Susan Kasen Summer Collection, Connecticut
British Council, London.
Contemporary Art Society, London.
Modern One, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
James Holloway Private Collection
Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
Leicestershire County Council,
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums,
New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge, England.
Manchester Gallery Of Modern Art, England
RESIDENCIES
2025 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2016-04 VCCA, Virginia
2015 Bogliasco Fellowship, The Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy
2012 Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship, Ithaca, New York
2006 Bogliasco Fellowship, The Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy
2006-04 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2003 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough
2003 Ragdale Foundation, Illinois
AWARDS
1997 Prizewinner of the 20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
1985 King Edward 7th British German Foundation Scholarship, West Berlin
1984 DAAD Art Scholarship, West Berlin, to study with Baselitz
1983 Richard Ford Award, Royal Academy, London to study Velasquez at the Prado, Madrid
EDUCATION
1983-84 DAAD Annual Art Scholarship, Berlin, West Germany ; to study with Baselitz at The Hochschule Der Kunste
1984 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (post-graduate diploma with distinction in drawing and painting)
1979-83 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (first class honors degree in drawing and painting)
BIBLIOGRAPHY, (selected)
Sierra Nguyen in Conversation with Gwen Hardie, Public Interview in person at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, at the opening of Solo Show Alchemy of Light, Apr 2, 2026, 30 min video
Paintings without Image, by John Zarobell, Roborant Review, April 16, 2026
The Alchemy Of Light – A Conversation With Artist Gwen Hardie, Interviewed by Sarah Dorweiler, Aesence, December 2025
Under a Deep Orange Sun and a Pale Blue Moon, catalogue essay by Cas Friese, Director of Arden + White, New Canaan, Dec 2024
Gwen Hardie at Dolby Chadwick, Visual Art Source, by Mark Van Proyen, Feb 16, 2024
The Interview at The Semi Finalist, July 2023
Quiet Advocates, summer selection of Artists for the SEMI-FINALIST, 07/05/2022
The Interview, Indeeds, online arts magazine, based in Berlin, published Nov 11 2021
The Deed/Das Werk, online arts magazine based in Berlin, published Nov 16 2021
Human Boundaries, catalogue essay for solo show at Galerie PuglieseLevi, Berlin, written by Keith Hartley, Deputy Director of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2021
Pushing paper, Contemporary drawing from 1970 – Now, The British Museum, p 20,63.64, catalogue, edited by Isabel Seligman, 2019
Gwen Hardie: skin, light and paint, Interview for The Walker Art Gallery Blog, published Oct 6th 2015
Modern Scottish Painting” JD Fergusson, Edited, Introduced and annotated by Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach, page 54, 2015
The Power of Paint; REALITY, Modern and Contemporary British Painting, House and Gardens, by Rose Dahlsen, 10 October 2014
A Portrait of an Artist; Gwen Hardie talks about her work and upcoming exhibition at SCVA, Concrete Magazine, UK, by Katie Kemp, Sep 21 2014
Finding Empathy in the confines of our Skin, Hyperallergic, by Susan Silas, April 8th 2013
Borderline ; Depictions of Skin, Garis & Hahn, artcritical by David Cohen, April 16th 2013
Living in Their Own Skin at Garis & Hahn, Artefuse, by Oscar a. Laluyan, April 1st 2013
Skin and Earth, Suddenly Unrecognizable, The New York Times, review by Tammy La Gorce, March 1st 2013
Bound by Nature, The Glasgow Herald, Jan Patience, Jan 5th 2013
The Sunlit Skin of Gwen Hardie, Stornoway Gazette, , Eilidh Whiteford, Jan 3rd 2013
The Scottish Cultural Memory Project, 40 min film interview with Amy, Jim and Gwen Hardie for Rob Roy Films, Scotland, May 2013
Gwen Hardie @ An Lanntair, Steornabhagh”, SCOTTISH ART BLOG, Fern Insh, August 9th 2012
Gwens Art, Aonghas MacNeacail, Poem and essay for catalogue “Boundaries” show at An Lanntair and Taigh Chearsabhagh, Hebrides, Scotland.
Revealing Bodies, Anatomy, Allegory and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, Cover Image, written by Erin M. Goss, Bucknell University Press, 2012
Boundaries, 5 min film by John Maclean shot on location at solo show of Gwen Hardie, An Lanntair , Hebrides, Scotland, August 2012
RSA Annual Show, Giles Sutherland, The Times, June 5th 2012
A new body of work, Catriona Black, Glasgow Herald, April 27th, 2012
Slow Looking- Fast painting, 15 min documentary about Gwen Hardie’s work by Charlotte Lagarde, premiered at The Royal Scottish Academy, 2012
The Grace of The Birch; Art, Nature, Healing, Art Collection for Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, Reich and Hall Architects, curated and written by Lindsay Blair, 2011
Gwen Hardie; Art Words, Scottish Homes and Interiors, August 2009
Chip Off The Old Block, BBC Radio Scotland Interview with Gwen Hardie and father James Hardie, May and July 2009
Up Close and Personal, Catriona Black, The Sunday Herald, Nov 16th 2008
Gwen Hardie at Dinter, Michael Amy, Art In America”, April 2006
Gwen Hardie: Face Paintings, 2005, David Cohen, The New York Sun, December 8th 2005
Carol Kino observes Gwen Hardie, exhibition catalog, Dinter Fine Art, New York, September 2005
Face Forward: Fringe Interview with Artist GWEN HARDIE”, Dee Dee Vega, Fringe Underground, Dec 2005
Gwen Hardie: Face Paintings 2005, David Cohen, artcritical.com December 2005
Short List- Chelsea, Gwen Hardie: Face Paintings 2005, The New Yorker, Dec 19th 2005
In Progress: A sampling of artists in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Monadnock Ledger, July 24th 2003
Abstraction and Immanence, NY Arts, Deborah Everetts, April 2001
Abstraction and Immanence, New York Times, Ken Johnson, March 23 2001
Lindsey Brown interviews Gwen Hardie, September 2001
Five, Art News, Cynthia Nadelman, November 2000
Gwen Hardie,Contemporary Visual Art, Issue 22, Sandra Lee, Spring 1999
Gwen Hardie / Beaux Arts,Whats on in London, Rosanna Negretti, 2/3. 24.99
The Secret Life of Paintings, – exhibition catalogue introduction, Beaux Arts, London, Keith Patrick, 1999
Around the Galleries The Times, July 14 1998
The 20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition video, with Dan Hayes, Gwen Hardie, Tony Bevan 1997
The 20th John Moores Liverpool exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (prizewinner), 1997
Gwen Hardie, exhibition catalogue, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 1996
Gwen Hardie, exhibition catalogue introduction, Judith Bumpus, Jason & Rhodes, London
Gwen Hardie, Whats on in London, Andrew Lambirth, 4.24.96
Gwen Hardie, Time Out, Tania Guha, 4.24/5.1.96
Gwen Hardie; gentle yet unnerving work, The Christian Science Monitor, Christopher Andrea, 4.94
Gwen Hardie; Mind in body, The Big Issue, John Keenham, 2.94
An Artists Diary, Arts Review, Gwen Hardie, 2.94
Divine Abstraction and Surface Tension, The Scotsman, Edward Cage, 4.2.94
Body of work, Tatler, Celia Lyttleton, 1.94
A woman who looks into and through, The Christian Science monitor, Christopher Andrea, 6.11.90
Primitive Origins, RA Magazine, Margaret Garlake, no 26, Spring 90
Letter from Scotland, Arts Magazine, Paul Wood, 4.90
A light touch for the feminine form, The Independent on Sunday, Tom Lubbock, 4.8.90
Engaging femininity and the art of seduction, Glasgow Herald, Hilary Robinson 3.7.90
Original Work by developing artist, The Scotsman, Murdo McDonald,, 2,19,90
A sensual artist who is watching her figure, Observer Scotland 2.18.90
The artist as amazon, The Times, David Lee, 2.14.90
Scottish Art now ; Gwen Hardie, channel 4, Keith Alexander, 20 mins, 1988
Status symbolism, Harpers and Queen, Francis Spalding,4.88
Goodbye to soft hearts, Bath and west evening chronocle”, Christopher Hansford, 4.12.88
Making sense of existence, The Scotsman, Keith Hartley, 3.23.87
Modern Scottish Art packs a punch in Edinburgh, Christopher Andreae, Christian Science Monitor, Aug 24 1987
Gwen Hardie, Arts review, Graham Hughes, 12.4.87
Free spirits with designs on Vienna, Financial Times, Mark Currah, 4.24.86
Back to earth, The List, Alice Bain, 4.16.86
Good with Figures, The Independent, Andrew Graham Dixon, 3.23.86
Weightlessness and gravity- Gwen Hardie interviewed, The Festival Times, Murdo McDonald, Edinburgh 1984