Haute
Fihnance
101
Press Release April 27, 2026
Hardo & Co. Announces Debut Art Show in Highly Strategic Definitive Reveal
Creates Best-In-Class Operations in Haute Finance Art, Delivering Immediate Global Leadership to Critical Visual Market And Ability to Address Expanding Core TAM and Other Headwind-Tailwind Adjusted Opportunities
Show Fully Financed At Day One and Will Open With Robust Balance Sheet Containing Zero Private Credit and No Special Purpose Vehicle Funding
NEW YORK, New York,. April 27, 2026 ------ Artist Hardo & Co’s debut art show, ‘Haute Fihnance 101’, will take place in Chelsea from May 7-10th, 2026, at room 314 of 516 W 26th St. Several private events are planned for the show; access to timeslots for viewings can be requested via a form on the artist’s website.
Seven years in the making, the debut series consists of 12 large-scale artworks[1] covering different corners of the haute finance world.
Works exhibited in Haute Fihnance 101 explore the enduring themes, emotions, and cliches of subjects including M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, High Frequency Trading, and Shipping and Commodities.
The first large artwork, ‘HFT x F1’, completed in 2021, focuses on High Frequency Trading, depicting seven real-life Formula 1 tracks, made interconnected as ultimate global racetrack for trading, has seen editions find their way to trading firms and quants all over the world. The 2023 Shipping work, ‘Baltic Degens’, presented as a big game of ‘Battleship’, already sold out its full edition after an article in TradeWinds (the artist displays an Artist’s Proof). Venture Capital (‘Silicon Derby’) is modeled after a horse race, with LPs betting on GPs betting on Founders racing their unicorns toward the next round of capital. The latest addition to the series, a nearly 10ft wide work on commodities and shipping called ‘Kings of the World’, saw its first editions pre-sold, ahead of its reveal at the art show.
All artworks are digital artworks, finished as Giclee prints on Canson Infinity and on floating dibond frames under TruLife museum glass. Artworks range in size from 170x120cm to 290x140cm (the ‘Kings of the World’ work on shipping and commodities is for those who move size, at 9’6” wide and gets close to being measured in DWT like the vessels on it).
Works of Hardo have previously been published in Tradewinds, Colossus Magazine and the Dutch Financial Times.
Ten+ large-format works. The debut of Haute Fihnance 101 brings together the full first series of Hardo & Co — exhibited together for the first time.
Each work is an intricate, informed, and at times sardonic love letter to a different corner of high finance — M&A, commodities, monetary policy, markets. Executed in large format, in editions of 7–10, never to be reprinted.
