Dan Hudson
Biography

Dan Hudson is a Canadian visual artist working with various media including, painting, photography, video and installation. He uses cross disciplinary methodologies to 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, Newfoundland, 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.

For his “day job” Hudson worked as photojournalist. 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.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Herringer Kiss Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Dan Hudson: Horai

2020
Telus Spark – Calgary, Canada – Dan Hudson: 360

2019
Alberta Foundation for the Arts/TREX – throughout Alberta – 1.6 Million Miles a Day (2017 to 2019)

2018
Valletta Contemporary – Valletta, Malta – That Golden Stain of Time – Dan Hudson
Brennwald Kunst – Kiel, Germany – 4 Elements
OAG – Okotoks, Canada – Bow River

2017
Angell Gallery – Toronto Canada – Measures of Time
Alberta Foundation for the Arts/TREX – throughout Alberta – 1.6 Million Miles a Day (to 2019)

2016
Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Astronomical Landscapes
Esplanade Art Gallery – Medicine Hat, Canada – 1.6 Million Miles Away
Nickle Galleries – Calgary, Canada – Dan Hudson: 360 and Other Journeys

2015
Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Fragments of a Year
Esplanade Art Gallery – Medicine Hat, Canada  – Dan Hudson: Between Earth & Sky

2014
Whyte Museum  –  Banff, Canada – Theories of Entanglement: the Art of Dan Hudson 
Taigart Gallery – Tomsk, Russia – Dan Hudson: Video installation

2013
University of Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Measures of Time  (public art commission)
Stride Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Shrines
Landesamt Kiel –  Kiel, Germany – 4 Elements

2012
Brennwald Kunst – Kiel, Germany – 4 Elements
Sweet Home Private Art Space – Berlin, Germany – Malerie/Paintings
Harcourt House – Edmonton, Canada – Around the Sun

2011
Art Gallery of Calgary, Media Gallery – Calgary, Canada

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
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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Emergence
Contemporary Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Planetary
Valletta Contemporary – Malta – Up to Now

2019
Herringer Kiss Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Cache
Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada – The Snow Show
Illingworth Kerr Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Before Digital: Post 1970 Photography in Alberta

2018
Museum Romeinse Katakomben – Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands – Secret Gardens
First Canadian Place Gallery – Toronto, Canada – Under the Sun
Nickle Galleries – Calgary, Canada – Land People Movement
Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Big
Illingworth Kerr Gallery – Calgary Canada – Before Digital

2017
McMullen Gallery – Edmonton, Canada – This Art Makes Me Feel
The Film and Archive of Salamanca – Salamanca, Spain – Inner Nature 
The Madrasa Centre of Contemporary Culture – Grenada, Spain – Inner Nature
Äkkigalleria – Jyväskylä, Finland – Inner Nature Exhibition

2016
La Vetrina di Moonjade – Siena, Italy – Visionaria
Centro Atlántico de Árte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain – Inner Nature
Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada – From Our Collection: Recent Aquisitions 2
Botanical Gardens – Marnay Sur Seine, France – Inner Nature
Temple University – Philadelphia, USA – Inner Nature
Faculty of Fine Arts – Teruel, Spain – Inner Nature

2015
Instituto Valencia d’Arte Modern – Valencia, Spain – Inner Nature Exhibition
Governors Island Art Fair – New York, USA – GIAF 2015
Art Gallery of Ontario – Toronto, Canada – Images Festival: Only Believe Things That Are Easy to Understand
Western Front – Vancouver, Canada – Only Believe Things That Are Easy to Understand
Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada – Recent Aquisitions
Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – The Bow Biennial
The Rooms Gallery & Eastern Edge – St. John’s, Nfld – HOLD FAST Festival
Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Water
Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada – Exposure 2015: Over…Time 

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 
Outcasting: Fourth Wall  – Cardiff, Wales
Florina Visual Arts – Florina, Greece – Art + Nature
Parachute Light Zero – Paris, France – Memory of Water

2013
Aine Art Museum – Tornio, Finland – Import/Export
The Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada – Made in Calgary: the 80’s
Esplanade Art Gallery  – Medicine Hat, Canada – River/Water
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Canada – In My Room: Interior Environments
Art Gallery of Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Made in Alberta, Part IV
Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Made in Alberta, Part 1
Out of Ostrale – Dresden, Germany – art & home
Art Souterrain – Montreal, Canada – Labryinth
The Rooms Art Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland – Natural Selections
Jarvis Hall Fine Arts – Calgary, Canada –  + One
Esplanade Art Gallery –  Medicine Hat, Canada – River/Water
Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary – Calgary, Canada – Andy Warhol: The Athlete’s Series
Video Medeja Festival – Novi Sad, Serbia
Espace [im] Média Art Festival – Sherbrooke, Quebec
STRATA Foundation – Finland
Spinach Curatorial Projects – London, UK – Object Abuse
Video Art Festival Miden – Kalamata, Greece
CeC- Carnival of eCreativity – Sattal, India

2012
The Private Space – Barcelona, Spain – Time Again
Nickle Galleries –  Calgary, Canada – We Tell Ourselves Stories
OSTRALE ‘012 – Dresden, Germany
NordArt 2012 – Büdelsdorf, Germany
Arts Bath – Bath, England – Mis-In-Formation
Gallery 345 – Toronto, Canada – View from the Train
Gallery of Alberta Media Art – Calgary, Canada
Rundgang Spinnereigalerien – Leipzig, Germany
Multiplexer Gallery – Las Vegas
smartloft – Berlin, Germany –  Time Capsule
SCA Project Gallery – Pomona, CA – Patterns, Seasons, Uprisings
FIVA – Festival Internacional de Video Arte – Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Film Festival – Manila, Philippines

2011
Grimmuseum – Berlin, Germany – FITAX1500
Manifest Gallery – Cincinnati, Ohio – Observed
Berliner Liste Fair for Contemporary Art – Berlin, Germany
A Trans Pavillion – Berlin, Germany – Call/response participation for Backtrack
Jarvis Hall Fine Art – Calgary, Canada – Bring the Noise
Funkhaus Atelier Project – Berlin, Germany
NordArt 2011 – Büdelsdorf, Germany
The Private Space Gallery – Barcelona, Spain – Jour de Fête
Virtual Kunstraum Online Gallery – Berlin, Germany – The Hours
Takt Open Studios  – Berlin, Germany
Meinblau Gallery – Berlin, Germany – International Director’s Lounge
Les Instants Video – Vitrolle, France
ExTeresa Arte Actual – Mexico City, Mexico
Waterpieces Contemporary Video Art Festival – Riga, Latvia
Festival Loop/Screen – Barcelona, Spain – Off Loop Fair
FilmVideo Montecatini Cinema 2011 – Italy
Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film & Video Festival – Arizona, USA
Grimsby Institute – Grimsby, UK – Lightworks Festival
Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen – Liverpool, UK

2010
The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada- Grizzly!
Visual Voice Gallery – Montreal, Canada – Freedom Sparks International Video Art
Rodos International Visual Arts Festival – Rodos Island, Greece –  Ecofilms
Edmonton International Film Festival – Edmonton, Alberta
Asolo International Art Festival – Venice, Italy
Concorto Film Festival – Milano, Italy
Tabor International Film Festival – Tabor, Croatia
FrontDoc – Aosta, Italy – Rencontres Documentaires de la Vallée d’Aoste – 2010

2009
The Edge Gallery – Canmore, Canada – Summer’s Edge

2008
The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Out There
Alberta Society of Artists, Travelling Exhibition Program – Expedition

2007
Bau-Xi Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Robert Kidd Gallery – Detroit, Michigan

2005
Summit Gallery – Banff, Canada
Robert Kidd Gallery – Detroit, Michigan

2004
Skew Gallery – Calgary, Canada – Drive
The Whyte Museum – Banff, Canada – Elemental Inspiration

2000
Walter Phillips Gallery – Banff, Canada – First Descent
Bellevue Art Museum – Washington, USA – First Descent

1998
James Baird Gallery – Newfoundland, Canada – Dan Hudson & Brent McIntosh
The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador – Newfoundland, Canada – Painters Newfoundland
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Canada – Painters Newfoundland

1995    
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta – Call of the Wild

1994    
The Yukon Arts Centre – Whitehorse, Yukon – The Kluane Exhibition
The McMichael Gallery – Kleinburg, Ontario – The Kluane Exhibition
Parry Sound Museum and Gallery –  Ontario – The Georgian Bay Work- John Hartman, Dan Hudson,Tim Zuck
Hee Ro Art Gallery – Pusan, Korea – Korean Canadian Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Baik Gallery – Seoul, Korea – Korean Canadian Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto – Toronto, Ontario – Korean Canadian Invitational  of Contemporary Art
The Edmonton Art Gallery – Edmonton, Alberta – Return to Paradise
Home Oil Office Tower (Temporary Site) – Calgary, Alberta – Return to Paradise
The Nickel Art Museum, University of Calgary – Calgary, Alberta – New Economy
The Whyte Museum – Banff, Alberta – Reframing The Landscape

1993
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – Literary Illusions, touring exhibition
Paul Kuhn Fine Arts – Calgary, Alberta – Drawings

1992
The McMichael Gallery – Kleinburg, Ontario – Legal Perspective
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – McIntyre Ranch Project Exhibition
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Oshawa, Ontario – Echoes of Tom Thompson
The Tom Tomson Gallery – Owen Sound, Ontario – Echoes of Tom Thompson
Kitchener\Waterloo Gallery – Ontario – View From The Chesterfield
The Market Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – Toronto: City Seen\City Scenes
MacLaren Art Centre – Barrie, Ontario – Mask and Metaphor

1991
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge, Alberta – Oldman River Expedition

1990
Grunwald Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – friENDS
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery – Medicine Hat, Alberta – Water

1989
Bridge Art Museum –  Lethbridge, Alberta – Chronicle
Grunwald & Watterson Gallery – Toronto, Ontario – Four Gallery Artists
The Welch Gallery – Ottawa, Ontario – The Welch Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition

1988
Grunwald Gallery -Toronto, Ontario – Summer Exhibition
Nova Gallery – Calgary, Alberta – Nova Realities

1986
Off Centre Centre – Calgary, Alberta – Exposure

1985
Gallery Oboro – Montreal, Quebec – Red Cloud
A.R.C – Toronto, Ontario – Interior Rites and Rituals

AWARDS & GRANTS

Motion Photography Prize, Saatchi Gallery (London), Shortlist, 2014
Global Art & Moving Images Award (Cologne, Germany), 2013
NordArt Contemporary Art Exhibition (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 Visual Arts Grants – 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2009, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1988
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts Grants  – 2019, 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
The Banff Centre Visual Arts Scholarship – 1984
Heinz Jordan Memorial Scholarship, York University – 1984
Carl Dair Visual Arts Scholarship, York University – 1983

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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)