Gherdai Hassell is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, podcast host and independent curator and researcher based in Manchester, UK. Having studied in China, Her work investigates memory and nostalgia to construct and deconstruct identity.  She uses mixed media techniques to thread and weave layers of history and the complexities of Caribbean heritage, post colonial narratives and identity through painting, fashion and collage. Her work typically centers hidden labor women’s work simultaneously existing within realms of past, present, and future. Her work is ultimately about migration, a gradual process of being and becoming the future. This work does not just position which futures are imaginable, it’s also about what pieces of our collective past would survive in such a future. Her work is an exploration of identity as an exploration of materials.

Her artwork is a part of public and private collections across the world. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and biennials in Bermuda, USA, UK , Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Nigeria, Cuba, Mali, South Africa and China. Gherdai is a Graduate of the China Academy of Art.

She is an Arts in Medicine Fellow and a 2025 Women in Art Prize recipient.  She won the 2023 Dr. Eva Hodgson Racial Justice Award. She is a three time best of Bermuda Award -Visual Art recipient. The 2021 Women’s United Art Prize recipient. She is one of the first artists selected for the 2023 Jerwood at HOME residency,  a 2022 Manchester Open Award winner, the 2021 Master works Museum’s Charman Prize winner for distinctive style.