| 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]
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.