Artist List    Roll Hardy    Images  |  Bio Born: Lancaster, New Hampshire 1974 EDUCATION B.F.A. Painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2002 Pacific Northwest College of Art Rome Program, Rome, Italy 2000 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 1996 AWARDS C.S. Price Award for Painting 2002 Thesis Prize, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2002 The Venice Foundation Painting Scholarship 2000-2002 Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce Scholarship 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 Barry Tonkin Artist Scholarship 2001 City of Las Vegas Mural Grant 1998 ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2005, 2009 “Industrial Spaces and Abandoned Places,” Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2007 The Tualatin Central Library, Tualatin, OR 2003 Higgins Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2001 The A-Space, Philadelphia, PA 1996 GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery 2008 “20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 “Locally Grown,” City Hall, Portland, OR 2006 “Labyrinth” On Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 "Locations and Places," The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2004 “Painting Portland,” Core Sample Exhibition at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2003 “The Carl and Hilda Morris Foundation Young Artist Exhibition,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2002 “Emerging Artists,” Cabell Center, The Catlin Gabel School, Portland, OR 2002 “Thesis Exhibition,” Stevens Annex, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2002 “All Nude Review,” Ogle Gallery, Portland, OR 2002 European School of Economics, Rome, Italy 2001 Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2001 Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO 1998 COLLECTIONS Tonkon Torp Attorneys, LLP, Portland, OR Visual Chronicle of Portland, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR RELATED EXPERIENCE Set Designer, The Haven Project, Portland, OR, a non-profit community based children's theater 2001-2004 Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2002 PUBLICATIONS “Pulse,” art ltd., March/April 2009, p. 77, color reproduction Row, D.K. “Roll Hardy earns place among tribe of desolates,” The Oregonian, March 20, 2009, A&E, p. 29 Johnson, Barry, “Roll Hardy painting on the edge of town,” The Oregonian blog, March 8, 2009 D.K. Row, “Give yourself an artful break tonight,” The Oregonian, March 5, 2009, pp. E1,E2 Koppman, Debra, “Mel Katz and Roll Hardy,” Artweek, March 2009, Volume 40, Issue 2, pp. 6, 22 Row, D.K., “A spooky, parallel world,” The Oregonian, Friday , February 23, 2007, A&E, pp. 38, 40 Libby, Brian, “Warming art heats up chilly month,” The Oregonian, Thursday, February 1, 2007, pp. E1, E5 Maldonado, Victor, “Fine Young Things: Ten Artists Catching Our Eye for 2007,” PDXmagazine, January 2007, p. 50 Gallivan, Joseph, "A Summertime Smorgasbord," Portland Tribune, July 5, 2005, pp. B1, B3, illus. Preview: the Gallery Guide, June/July/August 2005, pp. 70-71 illus. Gragg, Randy, and Matthew Stadler, ed. Core Sample: Portland Art Now, Clear Cut Press, Astoria, OR, 2004, p. 112, pp. 276-278 The Organ, November/December 2003 Allan, Lois, "'Painting Portland' at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University," Artweek, November 2003, pp. 25-26 Henderson, Harvest, "Mirror, Mirror . . ." The Oregonian, October 3, 2003, pp. 52-53