Dave Hardy is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
He received a BA from Brown University, an MFA from Yale School of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.

Hardy’s work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. Solo shows include: Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2017); Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles (2017); Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels (2016); Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2014); Churner and Churner, NYC (2014); Regina Rex, NYC (2013) and Art in General, NYC (2009). Selected group shows include: Studio La Citta, Verona, 2019, Collection Lambert, Avignon 2019, Tibor De Nagy (2016), Invisible Exports (2015), Bortolami (2014) and Jack Shainman Gallery (2008) in NYC. His work was included in the Queens International at the Queens Museum (2016), Greater New York 2005 at PS1/MoMA and Make It Now at Sculpture Center in NYC (2005).

He has recently been selected as the inaugural Fellow in the RAIR Fellowship Residency program with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His distinctions/grants also include:the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2018), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2018), NYFA - New York Foundation for the Art (2017 & 2011) and Socrates Sculpture Park (2005). He has taught at such institutions as New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and Parsons School of Design, and he was a resident faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018.

His work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Telerama.