Gwen Hardie

Background

Gwen Hardie was born in Scotland in 1962.

Education

She studied art at Edinburgh College of Artist

Career

She spent her childhood in Aberdeenshire. She lived in London and Berlin before moving to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New New York Hardie"s work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, Leicestershire County Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Highland Council, Manchester City Galleries, and the University of Edinburgh.

She was one of the Scottish artists whose portraits were painted in the 1980s by Alexander Moffat.

Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 2015 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2015 Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, United States of America, 2014 Garis & Hahn, New York The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ann Lanntair and Taigh Chearsabhagh, The Hebrides, Scotland, 2013.

Achievements

• Hardie has been given residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy. And at Yaddo, MacDowell, the VCCA and the Bogliasco Foundation in America. She was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.