Chiara Hardy was born in New York City, and at two months she was brought home to Bali, where her parents have been living for the last half century.
Growing up on the island, Chiara moved through an environment where the line between interior and exterior, seen and unseen, natural and constructed, seeded a sensitivity to the permeability of boundaries and the forms that hold structures in relation.
As a teenager she returned to New York and later graduated from Yale University in 2024 with honors in Art (sculpture) and Anthropology. These fields offer reciprocal lenses, both grounded in the understanding that reality is relational and formed through tension between visible and invisible systems. This perspective transfers materially into her practice, which employs quotidian and industrial materials alongside analog and obsolescent technologies. Her spatial interventions employ tension and suspension that make invisible forces—gravity, time, motion—that are contingent on the participation of the viewer.
Chiara works in her studio in Bali, and her recent installations draws on fishing materials as well as analog and obsolescent technologies such as radio, overhead projectors, and weather balloons, using the conceptually frame of “casting out” as both medium and metaphor.
Email: Chiara@chiarahardy.com
Instagram: @chiarahardy