Robert Hardgrave

Fueled by experimentation and a drive to push his artistic boundaries, Hardgrave creates work that provides him with new techniques and alternative ways to reexamine his approach. His subject matter is most strongly influenced by Indigenous and primitive art, highlighting the art’s communalities while finding his own connection within their ideas to build new paths. He uses the nature of the materials and different tools to guide his processes. While touching on collective symbolism, the work remains very personal.

Born in Oxnard, California, over the past 30 years, Hardgrave has made a significant contribution to visual arts in the Pacific Northwest. He has been a finalist for the Cornish College of the Arts Neddy Award in Painting, and a nominee for the Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Arts Awards. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in galleries in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, New York, and Madrid, Spain, as well as institutions such as the SF MoMA and the Museum of Northwest Art. His work is part of the permanent collections of Microsoft, Starbucks, King County, The Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco, CA. He also created commissioned public artworks for the interior and exterior of the Seattle Convention Center’s new Summit Building.

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AMcE Exhibtions

In between: A Cross and a Hardgrave, solo show in conjunction with artist Tim Cross, Koplin Del Rio, October 2026
Seattle Art Fair 2026
Ad-Lib April 2026
LAnd SEA November 2025
Figure. Heads. September 2024
Seattle Art Fair 2024
Pattern, Form and Figure 2023
Seattle Art Fair 2023
Locally Sourced2023
80 Days in August 2022
PEARL Solo show 2022