Gregory Hardy Biography Birth Date: 1950, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan EDUCATION 1970-1972 Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto (Media Studies) Self-taught as a Painter SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Han Art Gallery, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto 2014 Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 2014 The Gallery Art Placement, Saskatoon 2014 Han Art Gallery, Montreal 2014 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton 2013 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto,ON. 2013 Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C. 2012 Wallace Galleries, Calgary 2012 Exploration of Landscape Drawing Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary 2012 The Gallery, Art Placement Saskatoon, Sk. 2012 Southwest Paintings and Drawings Art Gallery of Swift Current 2011 Southwest Paintings and Drawings Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery 2011 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, On. 2011 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Ab. 2011 The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, Sk. 2010 Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C. 2010 The Gallery Art Placement, Saskatoon 2009 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto 2009 The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon 2009 From the Island The Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon 2008 The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon 2008 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton 2007 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, On. 2006 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto 2005 Vanderleelie gallery, Edmonton 2005 Michael Gibson Gallery London, On. 2004 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 2004 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton 2004 The Northern Paintings Art Placement, Saskatoon 2002 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 Moffat 2001 Greg Hardy: The Panel Paintings, organized by the Mendel Art Gallery, Curator: Dan Ring 2001 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 2001 Art Placement, Saskatoon 2000 Art Placement, 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, 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, Saskatoon 1990 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 1990 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 1989 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 1989 Greg Hardy Paintings 1984-1989, Mendel Art Gallery, 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, Saskatoon 1987 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 1986 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 1985 The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon 1985 Galerie Elca London, Montreal 1984 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver 1983 The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon 1982 Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary 1975 Norman MacKenzie Gallery, Extension Division, Regina 1975 Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon 1974 Shoestring Gallery, Saskatoon SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 The Second Generation: Thirty Years Later, Mackenzie Art 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, B.C. 2013 XuCun International Arts Festival, Xucun, China 2013 The Lay of the Land, Visions West Gallery, Denver, CO. Bozeman, Livingston, Mo 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 MacMurray, 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, Klineburg, 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, 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 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 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 Gregory Hardy Shattering Sky, Han Art Gallery Catalogue 2014, Montreal, Essays by Karen Wilkin, Dorota Kozinska, preface by Jaclyn Griner Southwest: Drawings and Paintings, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Moose Jaw Art Gallery and Museum 2011 catalogue essay/questions by Robert Enright Greg Hardy -from the island Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon 2009. forward by Kent Archer Gregory Hardy, Mendel Art Gallery,2001 essay by George Moffatt Journeys in the Landscape 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.