DAN HUDSON BIO

Dan Hudson is a Canadian visual artist working with various media including, painting, photography, video and installation. His project based practice uses cross disciplinary methodologies explore concepts of time and the relationship between contemporary culture and the natural world.

Hudson earned a BFA with honours from York University (Toronto, Canada), studied anthropology at UCSD (California, USA) and attended art residencies in Banff, Yukon, Berlin and Leipzig. Hudson has received 4 academic scholarships, 7 international awards for various art projects and has been awarded more than 30 peer assessed arts grants. He regularly exhibits in group and solo exhibitions throughout North America and Europe.

From 1989 to 2012, Hudson worked as photojournalist for his “day job”. He has thousands of published images in major international magazines to his credit including more than 60 cover shots. Photo assignments to document travel and extreme adventure took him to some of the wildest places on the planet. Experiences such as these impart an intimacy and honesty to Hudson’s art practice.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Illingworth Kerr Gallery and Contemporary Calgary, Calgary Canada – Before Digital Angell Gallery Toronto Canada, The Snow Show 2018 Museum Romeinse Katakomben, Valkenburg aan de Geul Netherlands - Secret Gardens First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, Under the Sun Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Canada - Land People Movement 2017 The Madrasa Centre of Contemporary Culture, Grenada, Spain – Inner Nature Äkkigalleria – Jyväskylä, Finland – Inner Nature McMullen Gallery – Edmonton, Canada, Makes Me Feel

2016 La Vetrina di Moonjade – Siena, Italy - Visionaria Centro Atlántico de Árte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain – Inner Nature Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Granada, Spain Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada – Recent Acquisitions 2 2015 Instituto Valencia d’Arte Modern – Valencia, Spain – Inner Nature Governors Island Art Fair - New York, USA. Art Gallery of Ontario - Toronto, Canada – Only Believe Western Front – Vancouver, Canada - Only Believe Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada – Exposure 2015: Over…Time Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Water Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada – Recent Acquisitions Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada - Bow Biennial The Rooms Gallery – St. John’s, NFLD – Hold Fast 2014 Saatchi Gallery – London UK – motion photography Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt Germany – VKUNST Mon Amie L’Image Glenbow Museum – Calgary Canada – Made in Calgary 2000’s Outcsating: Fourth Wall – Cardiff UK Florina Visual Arts - Art & Nature – Florina, Greece Parachute Light Zero - Memory of Water – Paris, France 2013 Aine Art Museum – Tornio, Finland – Import/Export Spinach Curatorial Projects – London Uk – Object Abuse Glenbow Museum – Calgary, AB - Made In Calgary – The 80’s Art Souterrain - Montreal, Canada – Labryinth Out of Ostrale - Dresden, Germany - art & home Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Made in Alberta, Part 1 Video Medeja – Novi Sad, Serbia Espace [im] Média! – Sherbrooke, Quebec Spinach Curatorial Projects – London UK – Object Abuse STRATA Foundation – Pinsio Finland Video Art Festival Miden – Kalamata, Greece CeC- Carnival of eCreativity – Sattal, India The Rooms Art Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland – Natural Selections Esplanade Art Gallery – Medicine Hat, AB – River/Water Jarvis Hall Fine Arts – Calgary, Alberta - + One University of Lethbridge Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Canada - In My Room Art Gallery of Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Made in Alberta, Part IV Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Andy Warhol: The Athlete’s Series

2012 The Private Space – Barcelona, Spain – Time Again Nickle Galleries – Calgary, Canada – We Tell Ourselves Stories OSTRALE ‘012 International Contemporary Art Exhibition – Dresden, Germany NordArt 2012 International Contemporary Art Exhibition – Büdelsdorf, Germany Rundgang Spinnereigalerien – Leipzig, Germany Multiplexer Gallery – Las Vegas Smartloft – Berlin, Germany – Time Capsule FIVA II – Festival Internacional de Video Arte – Buenos Aires, Argentina BUSHO - Budapest Short Film Festival – Budapest, Hungary PixelPops 2012 – Cardiff, Wales & Barranquilla, Columbia Visionaria 2012 – Piombino, Italy – Vision Art, Visual Art in Movement Freedom of Memory – META House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Generation Loss – Manila, Philippines SCA Project Gallery – Pomona, California - Patterns, Seasons, Uprisings Fringe Arts – Bath, England - Mis-In-Formation Gallery 345 – Toronto, Canada – View from the Train Gallery of Alberta Media Art – Calgary, Canada 2011 Manifest Gallery – Cincinnati, Ohio - Observed Grimmuseum - Berlin, Germany - FITAX1500 Berliner Liste Contemporary Art – Berlin, Germany A Trans Pavillion – Berlin, Germany - Call/response participation for Backtrack Funkhaus Atelier Project – Berlin, Germany NordArt 2011 International Contemporary Art Exhibition – Büdelsdorf, Germany The Private Space Gallery – Barcelona, Spain - Jour de Fête Virtual Kunstraum – Berlin, Germany - The Hours Les Instants – Vitrolle, France ExTeresa Arte Actual – Mexico City, Mexico Waterpieces Contemporary Video Art – Riga, Latvia Festival Loop/Screen - Barcelona, Spain - Off Loop Fair FilmVideo Montecatini – Italy Arizona State University Art Museum - Video Festival – Tempe, Arizona, USA Grimsby Institute – Grimsby, UK - Lightworks Festival Moves International - Movement on Screen – Liverpool, UK Meinblau Gallery – Berlin, Germany - International Director’s Lounge Jarvis Hall Fine Art – Calgary, Canada - Bring the Noise 2010 Visual Voice Gallery – Montreal, Canada - Freedom Sparks International Video Art Rodos International – Rodos, Greece Edmonton International Film Festival – Edmonton, Alberta Asolo International Art Film Festival – Venice, Italy Concorto – Milano, Italy Tabor International Film Festival – Tabor, Croatia FrontDoc – Aosta, Italy – Rencontres Documentaires de la Vallée d’Aoste

The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada- Grizzly 2000 - 2009 The Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada – Summer’s, 2009 The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Out There, 2008 Alberta Society of Artists, Travelling Exhibition Program – Expedition, 2008 Bau-Xi Gallery – Toronto, Canada, 2007 Robert Kidd Gallery – Detroit, Michigan, 2007 Summit Gallery – Banff, Canada, 2005 Robert Kidd Gallery – Detroit, Michigan, 2005 Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Drive, 2004 The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Elemental Inspiration, 2004 Walter Phillips Gallery – Banff, Canada – First Descent, 2000 Bellevue Art Museum – Washington, USA – First Descent, 2000

1900 - 1999 James Baird Gallery – St John’s Newfoundland, Canada – Dan Hudson & Brent McIntosh, 1998 The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador – St John’s Newfoundland, Canada – Painters Newfoundland, 1998 The Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Canada – Painters Newfoundland, 1998 Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta – Call of the Wild, 1995 The Yukon Arts Centre – Whitehorse, Yukon – The Kluane Exhibition, 1994 The McMichael Gallery – Kleinburg, Ontario – The Kluane Exhibition, 1994 Parry Sound Museum – Ontario, Georgian Bay: John Hartman, Dan Hudson, Tim Zuck, 1994 Hee Ro Art Gallery – Pusan, Korea – Korean Canadian Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 1994 Baik Gallery – Seoul, Korea – Korean Canadian Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 1994 Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto – Toronto, Ontario – Korean Canadian of Contemporary Art The Edmonton Art Gallery – Edmonton, Alberta – Return to Paradise, 1994 Home Oil Office Tower (Temporary Site) – Calgary, Alberta – Return to Paradise, 1994 The Nickel Art Museum, University of Calgary – Calgary, Alberta – New Economy, 1994 The Whyte Museum – Banff, Alberta – Reframing The Landscape, 1994 Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – Literary Illusions, touring exhibition, 1993 Paul Kuhn Fine Arts – Calgary, Alberta – Drawings, 1993 The McMichael Gallery – Kleinburg, Ontario – Legal Perspective, 1992 Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – McIntyre Ranch Project Exhibition, 1992 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Oshawa, Ontario – Echoes of Tom Thompson, 1992 The Tom Tomson Gallery – Owen Sound, Ontario – Echoes of Tom Thompson, 1992 Kitchener\Waterloo Gallery – Ontario – View From The Chesterfield, 1992 The Market Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – Toronto: City Seen\City Scenes, 1992 MacLaren Art Centre – Barrie, Ontario – Mask and Metaphor, 1992 Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – Oldman River Expedition, 1991 Grunwald Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – friends, 1990 Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery – Medicine Hat, Alberta – Water, 1990

1985 - 1989 Bridge Art Museum - Lethbridge, Alberta – Chronicle, 1989 Grunwald & Watterson Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – Four Gallery Artists, 1989

The Welch Gallery – Ottawa, Ontario – The Welch Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition, 1989 Grunwald Gallery -Toronto, Ontario – Summer Exhibition, 1988 Nova Gallery – Calgary, Alberta – Nova Realities, 1988 Off Centre Centre – Calgary, Alberta – Exposure, 1986 Gallery Oboro – Montreal, Quebec – Red Cloud, 1985 A.R.C – Toronto, Ontario – Interior Rites and Rituals, 1985

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta, That Golden Stain of Time Brennwald Kunst, Kiel, Germany, 4 Elements Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks, Alberta, Bow River 2017 Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Measures of Time Alberta Foundation for the Arts/TREX – Alberta, Canada – 1.6 Million Miles a Day (Travelling Exhibition) 2016 Nickle Galleries – Calgary, Canada – 360 and Other Journeys Alberta Foundation for the Arts/TREX – Alberta, Canada – 1.6 Million Miles a Day (Travelling Exhibition) Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Astronomical Landscapes 2015 Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Fragment of a Year Esplanade Centre – Medicine Hat, Canada, Between Earth and Sky (survey exhibition) 2014 Taigart Gallery – Tomsk, Russia – video installation Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada, Theories of Entanglement – The Art of Dan Hudson 2013 University of Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Measures of Time – public art commission Stride Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Shrines Landesamt Kiel – Kiel Germany – 4 Elements 2012 S H Art Space – Berlin, Germany – Malerie/Paintings Brennwald Kunst – Kiel, Germany – 4 Elements Harcourt House – Edmonton, Canada – Around the Sun 2000 – 2011 Art Gallery of Calgary, - Calgary, Canada, 2011

Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada, 2007 Summit Gallery of Fine Art – Banff, Canada, 2006 The Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada, 2010, Lines Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada, 2004 2000 – 2010 Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada, 2007 Summit Gallery of Fine Art – Banff, Canada, 2006 The Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada, 2010, Lines Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada, 2004 The Whyte Museum, Banff, Canada, 2003, Extreme Exposure

1990-1999 The James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1997 Open Space – Victoria, Canada, 1996 The James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1995 The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada, 1994 Art Gallery of Alberta – Edmonton, Canada, 1994 Project Gallery – Vancouver, Canada, 1994 The Paul Kuhn Gallery – Calgary, Canada, 1993 The MacLaren Art Centre – Barrie, Canada, 1993 Art Gallery of Wilfrid Laurier University – Waterloo, Canada, 1992 Cascade Plaza, pop-up Gallery in unfinished 2n floor – Banff, 1991 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, U of T – Toronto, Canada, 1991 The Jerrard Gallery – Toronto, Canada, 1991 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Oshawa, Canada, 1990

1980-1989 The Welch Gallery – Ottawa, Canada, 1989 Grunwald Gallery – Toronto, Canada, 1988 The Welch Gallery – Ottawa, Canada, 1988 Mercer Union – Toronto, Canada, 1988 The Welch Gallery – Ottawa, Canada, 1987 Artcite – Windsor, Canada, 1987 The Orbit Art Room – Toronto, Canada, 1984

AWARDS & GRANTS Motion Photography Prize, Saatchi Gallery (London) Shortlist, 2014 Global Art & Moving Images Award (Cologne, Germany), 2013 NordArt International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2011 (Büdelsdorf, Germany) Public Choice Award, 2011 Art Film/Video Montecatini (Milano, Italy) Honourable Mention, 2011 Asolo International Art Film Festival (Venice, Italy) Honourable Mention, 2011 FrontDoc (D’Aosta, Italy) Audience Choice Award, 2011 Edmonton International Film Festival (Edmonton, Canada) Grand Jury Award, 2010

Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Grants – 2017, 2016, 2012, 2009, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1988, 1986 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts Grants - 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2004, 2003 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Purchase Award - 2013, 2010, 2009, 2000, 1997 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grants – 1992, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987 Leighton Artist Studio award, The Banff Centre - 1993 The Banff Centre Visual Arts Scholarship – 1984 Heinz Jordan Memorial Scholarship, York University – 1984 Carl Dair Visual Arts Scholarship, York University – 1983 EDUCATION 1984 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Visual Arts Studio Residency (Banff, Canada) 1981 – 82 UCSD, University of California, San Diego (California, USA) 1978 – 84 BFA Visual Arts, York University (Toronto, Canada)