Gregory Hardy

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"Gregory Hardy’s paintings materialize out of a process that begins with his physical presence in the landscape, the notation of certain visual cues through drawings, and finally the painting process where memories and material construct an equivalence for the original experience. They depend, for their effectiveness, on the ability of the painted mark to access remembered experience in an intuitive manner that engages both mind and spirit. Stroke by stroke, layer upon layer, they construct their own history through a process of emergence and obscurity. The viewer’s entrance through and into the interior space of Hardy’s paintings parallels that of the artist’s journey; his desire to find, in the temporal, an entrance to the spiritual."

Exerpt from "Gregory Hardy – Journeys in the Landscape"
Written by George Moppett
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

EDUCATION

1970-1972 Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto (Media Studies)
Self-taught as a Painter

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 "Shattering Sky II", Han Art Gallery, Montreal
2016 Nicholas Metivier gallery, Toronto, On.
2015 Peter Robertson Gallery Edmonton, Ab.
2014 Han Art Gallery, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
2014 "Lakes & Ponds", Wallace Galleries, Calgary
2014 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2014 "Shattering Sky", Han Art Gallery, Montreal 
2014 "The Light Within", Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton 
2013 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2012 " An Exploration of Drawing", Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary,AB
2012 “Close to the Heart”, The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2012 "Southwest: Drawings and Paintings", Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK
2011 "Southwest: Drawings and Paintings", Moose Jaw Art Gallery and Museum, Moose Jaw, SK
2011 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2011 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
2010 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
2010 "La Ronge Studies", The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2009 Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2008 "Selected Works" The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2007 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2006 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2005 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
2004 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
2004 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
2004 "The Northern Paintings" The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2002 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2002 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver
2001 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
2001 Journeys in the Landscape, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon Curator: George Moppett
2001 Greg Hardy: The Panel Paintings, organized by the Mendel Art Gallery, Curator: Dan Ring
2001 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
2001 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
2000 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon
1999 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
1999 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver
1998 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton 
1997 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1997 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton 
1996 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon 
1996 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 
1996 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton 
1994 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1994 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton 
1993 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 
1992 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1991 Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary 
1991 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon 
1990 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 
1990 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 
1989 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1989 Mendel Art Gallery - National Touring Show, Curator: Karen Wilkin - Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 
1988 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1988 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon 
1987 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 
1986 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1985 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon 
1985 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 
1985 Gallery Quan, Toronto 
1984 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 
1984 Gallery Quan,Toronto 
1983 The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon 
1982 Gallery Quan, Toronto 
1982 Martin Gerrard Gallery, Edmonton 
1982 Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary 
1981 Francis Morrison Gallery, Saskatoon Public Library, Saskatoon 
1975 Norman MacKenzie Gallery, Extension Division, Regina
1975 Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon 
1974 Shoestring Gallery, Saskatoon

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 My Landscape, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2014 The Second Generation, 30 Years Later, MacKenzie Gallery, Regina
2014 Modern Visions, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
2014 Edge of Wilderness, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2013-2014 The Land: Four Landscape Painters, Gallery Jones, Vancouver
2013 Xucun International Arts Festival, Xucun, China
2013 The Lay of the Land, Visions West Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2011 State of Nature: Western Canadian Landscapes from the AGA Collection, 1980 to the present Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2008 “The Big Gift” Glenbow Museum, Calgary
2007 “A Prairie Companion”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
2007 “From Where I Stand: Contemporary Landscapes by Canadian Artists”, Mackenzie Art Gallery. Regina
2007 “Vantage Point: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions”, Museum London, London, On.
2005 "New Works", Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2003 “Lodestar”, Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon
2001 “Imagining Places and Travelling Spaces”, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
2000 “Landscape and Memory”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
1999 “Still Lives”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
1998 "Aspects of Landscape", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1998 "The Painter's Newfoundland", Art Gallery of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld.
1997 "Sources and Variations", Keyano Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta 
1996 "Saskatchewan Landscape", Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon 
1996 "Suncor Collects", Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary 
1996 "A Perspective on Drawing", The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary 
1994 Black and Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York 
1994 "Reflecting Paradise", Selections from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton 
1993 "Reflecting Paradise", Expo 93, Taejon, Korea 
1993 Xayamaca Workshop Exhibition, Kingston, Jamaica 
1992 "Legal Perspective: Selected Works from the Collection of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt", McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario 
1992 "Eco Art", International Conference on Ecology, Banco Bozano Simonsen, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
1991 "Painting the Land", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1989 "The Flat Side of the Landscape: The Emma Lake Artists' Workshops", Mendel Art Gallery, National Touring, Curator: John O'Brian 
1988 "Emma Lake 88 - A Canadian Legacy", Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 1988 "A Common Bond", Swift Current National Exhibition Centre 
1986 "The Romantic Still Life", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 
1985 "The Second Generation - Fourteen Painters", Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina 
1983 "Contemporary Canadian Art", Edmonton Art Gallery 
1983 "Critics' Choice", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 
1982 "Emma Lake Now", Francis Morrison Gallery, Saskatoon 
1980 "Saskatchewan Open", Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon 
1980 "Emma '79", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton 
1980 "Painterly Landscape Art", Medicine Hat Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta 
1977 "Figures, Still Lives and Landscape", David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto 
1976 "Changing Visions, The Canadian Landscape", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton 
1976 "Young Contemporaries 76", London Art Gallery, Ontario 
1975 "Young Contemporaries 75", London Art Gallery, Ontario 
1974 "Prairie 74", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton 
1974 Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina

AWARDS

1983 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Senior Grant
1974/76/80 Saskatchewan Arts Board Grants
R.C.A. member (Royal Canadian Academy)

COMMISSIONS

2016 Scotiabank Conference Centre, Toronto
2016 Nordstroms, Toronto Eaton Centre
2015 Nordstroms, Vancouver
2014 Nordstroms, Ottawa
2005 Western Development Museum, Saskatoon Commissioned by Scotiabank
1988 Cineplex-Odeon Mural, Bricktown, Chicago, Illinois
1977-79 Designed and executed in collaboration with Randy Woolsey, a 4000 square foot clay mural for the Government of Saskatchewan, Sturdy Stone Building Eastside), Saskatoon

WORKSHOPS

1979-1982, 1985, 1988 Emma Lake Workshops, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan
1989 Triangle Workshop, Mashomack, New York
1993 Xayamaca Workshop, Kingston, Jamaica
1993 Guest Artist, Grand Prairie Regional College, Alberta

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999 Guest Artist/Lecturer, Memorial University (Sir Wilfred Grenfel College, Newfoundland)
1987 Spring Session, Art Department, University of Alberta
1980-1982 Saskatchewan Community College System
1975-1980 Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, Fort San

COLLECTIONS

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina
National Film Board (Stills Division)
University of Alberta, Edmonton
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan
City of North Bay, Ontario
City of Estevan, Saskatchewan
City of Regina, Saskatchewan
Bank of Canada
Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto, New York
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto
Deutsche Bank, Toronto
Royal Bank, Toronto, Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Mercantile Bank
Canada Trust, Toronto
Canadian Embassy, External Affairs (San Jose, Beijing, Warsaw, Sydney, London, Los Angeles)
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corporation
Sask Tel
Shell Oil, Calgary
Gulf Oil, Calgary
Imperial Oil, Calgary, Toronto
Nova Corporation, Calgary
Suncor Inc., Calgary
Hughes Petroleum Ltd., Edmonton
Canadian Airlines International
Defasco Steel, Hamilton
Westburne International Industries, Montreal
Teleglobe Canada, Montreal
McLean Hunter Publishers, Toronto
Hines International, Boston, Mass. (Gift to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Dupont Canada, Toronto
Canadian National, Real Estate Division
Pemberton Collection, Vancouver
Four Seasons Corporation, Toronto
Xerox Corporation, Toronto
Household International, Chicago
Osler Hoskins Harcourt, Toronto
Atlin Goldenberg, Toronto
Chivers Greckol & Kanee, Edmonton
Alexander Pringle Corporation, Edmonton
Chieftain International Inc., Edmonton
Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Nordstrom Department Stores, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa

Private collections in England, Australia, the United States and Canada

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

Vie des Artes 2014 Summer, English Edition, essay by Dorota Kozinska
Shattering Skies,  2014 catalogue, Han Art, Montreal, essays by Karen Wilkin, Dorota Kozinska
Greg Hardy, Drawings and Paintings, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Moose Jaw Art gallery and Museum 2011 catalogue, essay Robert Enright
From the Island, Kenderdine Art gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, catalogue 2009, essay Kent Archer
Journeys in the Landscape Mendel art Gallery, Saskatoon catalogue 2001, essay George Moffatt
Canadian Art, Winter 1997, Review, Donald Brackett
Financial Post, “Painterly Inclinations”, Donald Brackett, September 13-15, 1997
The Edmonton Journal, March 7, 1997, Charles Mandel
Reflecting Paradise, 1993 Catalogue: Jeffrey Spalding
Books in Canada, May, 1992, Cover Reproduction
Gregory Hardy – Paintings 1984-1989 Catalogue: Karen Wilkin
Art Post 23, Vol. 4 No. 2, October/November 1986
Vanguard, Vol. 14 No. 10, D. Bentham, December 1985/January 1986
Vie Des Arts, Vol. XXX No. 121, December 1985, K. Carpenter, “Five Artists of Saskatoon”
The Second Generation: Fourteen Saskatchewan Painters, M. Parke-Taylor and N. Zepp
Update, Vol. 4 No. 4, July/August, 1983, R. Bingham
Globe and Mail, Toronto, August 6, 1977, J. Purdie
Art Magazine/25, March/April, 1976, Jeanne Parkin
Changing Visions: The Canadian Landscape, Exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1976, Karen Wilkin and Roald Nasgaard.

Artist

Gregory Hardy

RCA
Born: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1950
Price range: $2000-13,000