Gregory Hardy: Biography
Date of birth: 1950, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Education: 1970-1972, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto (Media Studies)
Self-taught painter.
Solo Exhibitions
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Greg Hardy Paintings 1984-1989 Mendel Art Gallery,Saskatoon, SK, Curator: Karen Wilkin (Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa,
ON; Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB)
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Galerie Elca London, Montreal, QC
Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, AB
Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
Journeys in the Landscape Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Curator: George Moffat
Greg Hardy: The Panel Paintings Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Curator: Dan Ring
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Art Placement, Inc. Saskatoon, SK
Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
The Northern Paintings Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Vanderleelie gallery, Edmonton, AB
Michael Gibson Gallery London, ON
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
From the Island The Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon, SK
Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C.
The Gallery Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Southwest Paintings and Drawings Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Wallace Galleries, Calgary
Exploration of Landscape Drawing Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB
The Gallery, Art Placement Saskatoon, SK
Southwest Paintings and Drawings Art Gallery of Swift Current
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C.
Han Art Gallery, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
The Gallery Art Placement, Saskatoon
Han Art Gallery, Montreal
Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
Peter Robertson Gallery Edmonton, Ab.
The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon
Han Art Gallery, Montreal
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, On.
Wallace Gallery, Calgary
Of Sky and Water, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
Sky Poems, La Ronge, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Art Placement, Saskatoon
Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
1974
1975
1976
1977
1980
1982
1983
1985
1986
1988
1989
1991
1992
1993
1994
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2003
2005
2007
2008
2011
2013
2013-14
2014
2016
2017
2019
2020
Prairie ‘74 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Young Contemporaries ‘75 London Art Gallery, London, ON
Changing Visions, The Canadian Landscape Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, and the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Young Contemporaries ‘76 London Art Gallery, London, ON
Figures, Still Lives and Landscape David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, ON
Saskatchewan Open Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Emma ’79 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Painterly Landscape Art Medicine Hat Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
Emma Lake Now Francis Morrison Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Contemporary Canadian Art Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Critics’ Choice Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
The Second Generation – Fourteen Painters MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, AB
The Romantic Still Life Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Emma Lake 88 – A Canadian Legacy Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
A Common Bond Swift Current National Exhibition Centre
The Flat Side of the Landscape: The Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops Mendel Art Gallery, National
Touring, Curator: John O’Brian
Painting the Land Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Legal Perspective: Selected Works from the Collection of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, Klineburg, ON
Eco Art International Conference on Ecology, Banco Bozano Simonsen, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Reflecting Paradise Expo 93, Taejon, Korea
Xayamaca Workshop Exhibition, Kingston, Jamaica
Black and Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York
Reflecting Paradise Selections from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Saskatchewan Landscape Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Suncor Collects Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
A Perspective on Drawing The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB
Sources and Variations Keyano Art Gallery, Fort MacMurray, AB
Aspects of Landscape Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
The Painter’s Newfoundland Art Gallery of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL
Still Lives Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Landscape and Memory Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Imagining Places and Travelling Spaces MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Lodestar Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
New Works Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
A Prairie Companion Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
From Where I Stand: Contemporary Landscapes by Canadian Artists Mackenzie Art Gallery. Regina, SK
Vantage Point: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions Museum London, London, ON
The Big Gift Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
State of Nature: Western Canadian Landscapes from the AGA Collection, 1980 to the present Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
XuCun International Arts Festival, Xucun, China
The Land: Four Landscape Painters Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C.
The Second Generation: Thirty Years Later, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Modern Visions, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Edge of Wilderness , Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
My Landscape Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Saskatchewan Arts Board Collection, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK
Landscape as Muse, Nicholas Metivier Gallery
45 Parallel North, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, Montana
Next Year’s Country, Remai Modern, Saskatoon
Awards
1974
1976
1980
1983
Saskatchewan Arts Board Grants
Saskatchewan Arts Board Grants
Saskatchewan Arts Board Grants
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Senior Grant
R.C.A. member (Royal Canadian Academy)
Commissions
1977-79
1988
2005
2015
2016
Designed and executed in collaboration with Randy Woolsey, a 4000 square foot clay mural for the Government of Saskatchewan, Sturdy Stone Building Eastside), Saskatoon, SK
Cineplex-Odeon Mural, Bricktown, Chicago, Illinois
Western Development Museum, Saskatoon, SK, Commissioned by Scotiabank
Nordsroms Department Store, Ottawa
Scotiabank Conference Centre, Toronto
Nordstroms Department Store, Toronto Eaton Centre
Workshops
1979-1982,
1985
1988
1989
1993
Emma Lake Workshops, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, SK
Emma Lake Workshops, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, SK
Emma Lake Workshops, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, SK
Triangle Workshop, Mashomack, New York
Xayamaca Workshop, Kingston, Jamaica
Guest Artist, Grand Prairie Regional College, AB
Teaching Experience
1975-80
1980-82
1987
1999
Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, Fort San
Saskatchewan Community College System
Spring Session, Art Department, University of Alberta
Guest Artist/Lecturer, Memorial University (Sir Wilfred Grenfel College, Newfoundland)
Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, SK
National Film Board (Stills Division)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, SK
City of North Bay, ON
City of Estevan, SK
City of Regina, SK
Bank of Canada
Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto,ON, New York
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, ON
Deutsche Bank, Toronto, ON
Royal Bank, Toronto, Montreal, QC
Bank of Montreal
Mercantile Bank
Canada Trust, Toronto, ON
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, AB
Gulf Oil, Calgary, AB
Imperial Oil, Calgary, Toronto, ON
Nova Corporation, Calgary, AB
Suncor Inc., Calgary, AB
Hughes Petroleum Ltd., Edmonton, AB
Canadian Airlines International
Defasco Steel, Hamilton, ON
Westburne International Industries, Montreal, QC
Teleglobe Canada, Montreal, QC
McLean Hunter Publishers, Toronto, ON
Hines International, Boston, Mass. (Gift to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Dupont Canada, Toronto, ON
Canadian National, Real Estate Division
Pemberton Collection, Vancouver, B.C.
Four Seasons Corporation, Toronto, ON
Xerox Corporation, Toronto, ON
Household International, Chicago
Osler Hoskins Harcourt, Toronto, ON
Atlin Goldenberg, Toronto, ON
Chivers Greckol & Kanee, Edmonton, AB
Alexander Pringle Corporation, Edmonton, AB
Chieftain International Inc., Edmonton, AB
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.