Gwen Hardie

Gwen Hardie was born in Fife, Scotland in 1962. She spent her childhood in Aberdeenshire and studied art at the Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in London and Berlin before moving to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York in 2000.{{cite web|title=Portrait of an Artist: Gwen Hardie|url=http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2013/01/portrait-of-an-artist-gwen-hardie.html|website=Face to Face|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=8 November 2015|date=15 January 2013}}{{Cite web |last=Painting |first=The Essential School Of |title=Gwen Hardie Biography – The Essential School Of Painting |date=July 2020 |url=https://theessentialschoolofpainting.com/gwen-hardie-biography/ |access-date=2022-07-25}}

Hardie has been given residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; and at Yaddo, MacDowell, the VCCA and the Bogliasco Foundation in America.{{cite web |title=Bio |url=http://gwenhardie.com/bio/ |publisher=Gwen Hardie|accessdate=8 November 2015}} In 1990, she became the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Hardie's work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council,{{cite web |title=Gwen Hardie (1962 – ) |url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/gwen-hardie-1962 |publisher=The British Council |accessdate=8 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006061358/http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/gwen-hardie-1962 |archivedate=6 October 2014 }} 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.{{cite web |title=Gwen Hardie |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/m/artist/alexander-moffat/object/gwen-hardie-gma-3454 |publisher=National Galleries of Scotland |accessdate=8 November 2015}}

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

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• [http://gwenhardie.com/ Official website]
• [https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hardie-gwen-b-1962 View works by Gwen Hardie on Art UK]

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Category:1962 births

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Category:Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art

Category:Scottish artists

Category:Scottish women artists