Faculty

ANNA HUDSON

BFA (Concordia), MPhil (Glasgow), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professor: Canadian Art History, Curatorial Studies; Director of the Graduate Program in Art History (MA) and Graduate Program in Art History and Visual Culture (PhD)
Department of Visual Arts, York University

ahudson@yorku.ca

Anna Hudson was the associate curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario before joining the Department of Visual Arts at York University in 2004. She brings with her an intimate knowledge of curatorial practice in Canada's public art galleries and museums, with hands-on experience in collections management and policy, exhibit planning and design, conservation issues, cultural property and fair market evaluation, provenance research and catalogue research and writing.

Professor Hudson has curated a wide variety of exhibitions and permanent collection installations including: Woman as Goddess: Liberated Nudes by Robert Markle and Joyce Wieland, and Inuit Art in Motion (co-curated), both of which received Ontario Association of Art Galleries 2004 Juried Awards of Merit. She has published extensively on Canadian art and continues to pursue research in the area of her doctoral dissertation, Art and Social Progress: The Toronto Community of Painters, 1933-1950

 

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