Anna Hudson

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.

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. 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). Hudson has expanded scholarly knowledge of modern and contemporary circumpolar Indigenous artists. and co-curated with Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Inuit Art in Motion (2004). Fugitive Light: Clark McDougall’s Destination Places (2011), for the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario; and inVisibility: Indigenous in the City, which was part of INVISIBILITY: An Urban Aboriginal Education Connections Project for the John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto (2013) (co-curated with Dr. Susan Dion and Dr. Carla Rice). She was on the curatorial team for the exhibition and wrote for the catalogues of Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, for the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (2011); and Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak (2018) ("Tunirrusiangit" means "their gifts" or "what they have" in Inuktitut)

She also has written numerous articles, chapters in books and entries such as the chapter titled "Quiet pursuits: Canadian Impressionsts and the 'new woman'" in Canada and Impressionism: new horizons, 1880-1930 co-authored by Katerina Atanassova (2019) or the entries on Anne Savage and Marion Long in Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (2021).

Honours and awards 2004 Ontario Association of Art Galleries 2004 Juried Awards of Merit for "Wonder Woman and Goddesses: A Conversation about Art with Robert Markle and Joyce Wieland" in Woman as Goddess: Liberated Nudes by Robert Markle and Joyce Wieland 2023 Winner, Melva J. Dwyer Award for Qummut Qukiria! 2023 Honourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research) for Qummut Qukiria!