Born and educated in Scotland, Gwen Hardie lived and worked in London and Berlin before settling in New York City in 2000. Her upcoming Solo show “Human Boundaries” will be at PuglieseLevi Galerie in Berlin April – June 2021. Hardie’s work was shown most recently at Chabot Fine Art , The Hague, in 2020 and at De Pan Art Fair in Amsterdam with ASAP Gallery, the Kunst Rai Art Fair and Art The Hague, (Alexandra Siebelink Projects). Recent exhibitions include; “Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting” at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, July- Nov 2015 (previously at The Sainsbury Centre in Norwich) with Lucien Freud, Jenny Saville and others; “Skin Deep” a solo show at The Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, US in April/May 2014, “Borderline; Depictions of Skin” at Garis & Hahn, New York City and “Skin; An Artistic Atlas”, with John Coplans, Marlene Dumas and others at The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Ireland. Her solo show “Boundaries”, was in the Hebrides, Scotland, at An Lanntair and Taigh Chearsabhagh in 2012 / 2013 . Hardie has been awarded residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, (2015 and 2006), Yaddo, MacDowell and the VCCA in America. Her work has been reviewed in UK and US publications such as The Times, Art In America, The New York Times, The Glasgow Herald, The New Yorker, The Sunday Herald, Contemporary Visual Art, Time Out, The Scotsman and The Independent. Hardie was the youngest living artist ever to be given a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1994. She lived in London in the 90s and had solo shows with galleries such as Annely Juda Fine Art and Fischer Fine Art. Private and public collections that have bought her work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, British Council, London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and the Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon.