Anna Hudson (art historian) explained

Anna Hudson
Birth Name:Anna Victoria Hudson
Birth Date: 1963
Education:BFA Concordia University, Montreal; MPhil, University of Glasgow; MA, PhD University of Toronto
Known For:art historian, curator, writer and educator

Anna Victoria Hudson (born 1963) is an art historian, curator, writer and educator specializing in Canadian Art, Curatorial and Indigenous Studies who is the Director of the Graduate Program in Art History & Visual Culture at York University, Toronto.[1]

Career

Hudson was born in London, Ontario and took art classes at the London Public Library on Saturday mornings where she was introduced to London's active art scene.[2] She studied the History of Art at Concordia University, Montreal, graduating in 1985 with an Honours BFA with distinction; then took an MPhil, University of Glasgow (1986); and MA University of Toronto (1988). She worked at the University of Lethbridge teaching Art History (1996-1997) while completing her doctorate "Art and Social Progress: The Toronto Community of Painters, 1933-1950" at University of Toronto (1997). As a curator, she has worked with other curators and writers to explore our changing responses to what constitutes past and present Canadian art. As a York Research Chair and Principal Investigator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) project, "Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage" (2015-2020) which she led,[3] Hudson has extended our knowledge of modern and contemporary circumpolar Indigenous artists.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Hudson . ampd.yorku.ca . York University, Toronto . 3 September 2022.
  2. Anna Hudson file, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
  3. Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak . Transmotion . 2019 . 10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.767 . 4 September 2022 . Duchemin-Pelletier . Florence . 5 . 1 . 258–263 .