Born and educated in Scotland, Gwen Hardie lived and worked in London and Berlin before settling in New York City in 2000. Her most recent shows include ; “Human Boundaries’ at Galerie Pugliese Levi in Berlin Nov 2021- Feb 2022 and "Intimations", at 57 W 57 Arts, NYC, March 17 - Apr 26 2022.
Recent shows include; 57W57Arts in NYC and Art The Hague (2021), PAN AMSTERDAM and KunstRAI art fairs with ASAP Gallery, Rotterdam, and at Chabot Fine Art in The Hague. Previous exhibitions include Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting at The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and The Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, with Lucien Freud, Jenny Saville and others; "Skin; An Artistic Atlas", with Marlene Dumas and others at the RHA, Dublin. She was the youngest living artist ever to be given a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh in 1994. Hardie's work is in private and public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council, London, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Modern Collection, Lisbon. Her work has been reviewed by Art In America, The New York Times, Artcritical.com, 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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