Laura Hudspith

19th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction
hosted by Waddington’s, Toronto + Online

19th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction:
November 4 - 13, 2023
Waddington’s

Salon II Launch Celebration & Artist Talk:
November 4th, 2023: 6 - 9pm
Ace Hotel, Toronto


Contributions directly support C Magazine in its mission to engage our community in the ideas of our time through Canadian-led contemporary art and art writing. The 2023 catalogue is available through Waddington’s here.

Featuring work by: Anahita Akhavan, Farihah Aliyah Shah, Maru Aponte, Trevor Baird, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Jasmine Cardenas, Renée Condo, Lauren Crazybull, Gabi Dao, Kayza DeGraff-Ford, Wally Dion, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Hana Elmasry, Andy Fabo, Ella Gonzales, Ezra Gray, K.C. Hall, Laura Hudspith, Nadya Isabella, Min Jia, Rae Johnson, Julia Kansas, Keerat Kaur, Scott Kemp, Shane Krepakevich, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Anne Low, Annie MacDonell, Sanaz Mazinani, Sondra Meszaros, Raoul Olou, Luke Parnell, Preston Pavlis, Atheana Picha, Janice Reid, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Moses Salihou, Matthew Schofield, Walter Scott, Kathy Slade, Lisa Smolkin, Greg Staats, Karen Tam, Anna Torma, Howie Tsui, Alex Turgeon, Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand, Christian Vistan, Jan Wade, Caeden Wigston, Nicholas Zirk, and more.

The 19th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction will also present three salons, offering special opportunities to hear from select artists and get to know their works. Laura Hudspith will give an artist talk, joining Anahita Akahavan, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Janice Reid, and Nicholas Zirk at the Salon II Launch Celebration at The Ace Hotel on November 4th. Event details here.

Art Toronto
with Zalucky Contemporary

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
Art Toronto | Booth C40

October 26 - 29, 2023
collectors preview Thurs. October 26, 4–10pm

In their 2023 booth at Art Toronto, Zalucky Contemporary is presenting works by artists Pardiss Amerian, Brett Eduardz, Laura Hudspith, Aaron Jones, Caroline Mauxion, Sasha Pierce, Jacob Robert Whibley, and Lan "Florence" Yee.

Emanations
Solo, NADA NYC with Zalucky Contemporary

NEW YORK New York, USA
NADA | Booth P29

May 18 - 21, 2023
collectors preview Thurs. May 18, 10–4pm

For Zalucky Contemporary’s inaugural booth at NADA New York, the gallery is presenting a solo project booth by Canadian artist Laura Hudspith. Her debut in New York coincides with her graduation from the MFA Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Titled Emanations, this latest body of work involves six stained-glass oculi affixed to the walls. Guided by her body and its illness, Emanations explores the psychic, somatic, and collective possibilities that might arise through cultivating a practice of turning inwards towards the molecular.

Thump, whoosh, rumble
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania USA
March 25 - April 16, 2023
reception Fri. March 25, 6–8pm

artists Sarah Bowling, Jessica Fuquay, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind, Rebecca Shapass, Caroline Yoo.

Join us for thump, whoosh, rumble an exhibition featuring new work from the CMU School of Art MFA class of 2023. The exhibition spans three floors and presents all new work in wide-ranging media.

The MFA program at CMU’s School of Art is an interdisciplinary, experimental, research-based program that challenges artists to recognize social context and civic engagement as paramount within contemporary art. Students are encouraged to employ a comparative and intersectional approach to critical and cultural theories, allowing this inquiry to inform and expand what it means to be an artist and to make art within our contemporary condition. 

Everything Once Arranged Has Become Scattered
The Anderson Gallery

RICHMOND Virginia, USA
February 3 - March 3, 2023
reception Fri. February 3, 5–8pm

artists Kim Beck, N.E. Brown, Lenka Clayton, Jamie Earnest, Isla Hansen, Laura Hudspith, Sarah Kim, Phillip Andrew Lewis, Ross Mantle, Jake Reinhardt, Rebecca Shapass, Barbara Weissberger, Alisha Wormsley.

Everything Once Arranged Has Now Become Scattered explores Pittsburgh as a site of repeats, rifts, and joints. The exhibition weaves together the work of thirteen artists of various backgrounds interacting with their shared city. Much of the work involves an investigation of a deeply familiar place, as the artists interrogate the constructed thresholds on which they stand, confronting the truisms of the city. The artists connect with the city by digging through physical and metaphorical archives, reworking what they have discovered, or inserting their personal narrative into the city. 

Drawing on roads, rubble, bodies, and other physical qualities that, when combined, make a city—much of the work exemplifies the uniqueness of a place. In an echoing of its industrial roots, Pittsburgh today serves as a reservoir for resourcefulness. Seemingly mundane elements are celebrated, and objects of the past transcend their own histories, made new with careful consideration for the future. Charged with self-awareness, humour, and drama, the works of the exhibition imbue humanity into even the most inhuman; cast concrete becomes limbs of bodies and rocks begin to impersonate one another. Using what is available and creating what isn’t, the artists excavate the Pittsburgh landscape for complexity and unearth new ways of seeing. A scattering can portend a re-coming together of a new, extraordinary composition. What will we find at the bottom of the mine?

held open
Focus Exhibition at Art Toronto

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
October 27 - 30, 2022

artists Lorna Bauer, Nadia Belerique, Sharona Franklin, General Idea, Nan Goldin, Maureen Gruben, Alicia Henry, Laura Hudspith, Oreka James, Laurie Kang, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Elise Lafontaine, Karen Lofgren, Jenine Marsh, Preston Pavlis, & Shanie Tomassini.

Curated by Marie-Charlotte Carrier, held open presents the work of 16 artists who explore the ways we relate to one another and to the non-human. By foregrounding the complex and at times clashing networks that intimately bind us together, they attend to the entangled narratives and ecologies that characterize the living. Bodies are always ‘in-becoming’ – held open – affecting and being affected by their environment and history, whether it be physiological, political or sociocultural. As such, the artists in held open expand on the various spheres in which entanglements manifest beyond the realms of our skins, through domestic spaces, the natural environment, and communities. The artists in held open share this desire to expand our connections to each other and our environment and invite us to imagine alternative realms in which intimacies unfold. They provide a momentary glance through an opening – window, mirror or portal –  a way to transformation and possibility. 

Vessels, Orbs and Pyrophytic Pods
Zalucky Contemporary

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
June 4 – July 2, 2022
reception Sat. June 4, 2–4pm

artists Lee Henderson, Laura Hudspith & Liljana Mead Martin

The artists assembled here perform various forms of alchemy to explore the inner life of things. Their work exalts the inherent mutability of matter, the constant state of becoming that might not always be perceptible to the naked eye. Employing the corrosive power of salt, the destructive energy of fire and the transformative effects of vapour, they attempt to bear witness to the ‘changefulness’ of inanimate objects and how, in that state of flux, new forms of knowing can emerge.

There are seams in purgatory
McDonough Museum of Art

YOUNGSTOWN Ohio, USA
January 21 – March 5, 2022
reception January 21, 5–7pm

artists Sarah Bowling, Han Diaspora Group, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind, and Rebecca Shapass.

There are seams in purgatory is a collaborative exhibition between the five women-identifying artists that make up Carnegie Mellon’s MFA Class of 2023: Sarah Bowling, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind, Rebecca Shapass and Caroline Yoo participating with her artist collective Han Diaspora Group. Engaging in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that spans sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance, the artists confront questions of betweenness and becoming through celebration, pain, humour, rage, and meditation. There are seams in purgatory exists where the boundaries of identity, intimacy, and power are tested and transgressed. There are seams in purgatory emphasizes that the value of betweenness is not in its ability to arrive at an ultimate embodied goal, but rather to embrace the metamorphoses of identification that are ever in flux.

By using self-portraiture as a means of reconciling deeply personal challenges, the artists explore the internal self and the physical self within the context and constraints of the human, natural and virtual worlds. The artworks include digital and film photography, video, collage, sculpture, mixed media, installation, projection, beadwork, textiles, journal entries, interviews, collaborations, and a 3D rendering.

“This exhibition is in keeping with our own vision for the Portrait Gallery of Canada,” said Joanne Charette, Director, Portrait Gallery of Canada. “Our goal is to engage Canadians in the conversations of the day through portraiture. These artists are doing exactly that. Through their powerful work, they are addressing important issues such as illness, ageing and death; colonialism, diversity, culture and language; gender transitions; the environment; and the sense of self in the virtual world. We thank Darren Pottie for sharing his project with us, and the artists for their enthusiastic participation. We are proud to showcase these strong portraits.”

VAST Magazine 2021 issue no. 3

Artist Feature available in print, pages 100 - 101 & online here.

Art Toronto
with The Plumb

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
Art Toronto | Booth B-31
October 29 – December 5, 2021

Featuring works by Hannah Boone, Kaley Flowers, Tina Guo, Meghan Harder, Michelle Homonylo, Laura Hudspith, Jeremy Laing, Sara Maston, Deirdre McAdams, Izzy Mink, Karice Mitchell, and Robert Anthony O'Halloran, The Plumb presents three days of rotating exhibitions at Toronto’s international art fair.

Move Objects On
The Plumb

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
September 4 – 29, 2021
Curated by Emma Green + Alison Postma

artists Quinn Buckler, Dana Buzzee, Julia Campisi, Kaley Flowers, Laura Hudspith, Mark Johnsen, KanikaXx, Ahreum Lee, Stephanie Ligeti, Owen Marshall, Morgan Melenka, Nik October, Sophia Oppel and Benjamin De Boer, KitKit Para, Hau Pham, Lauren Prousky, Tristan Sauer, Lisa Smolkin, Mercedes Ventura, Liu Wang, Sean Weisgerber, Graham Wiebe, and B Wijshijer.

Hudspith presents Bloom (2021), a site-specific and multimedia, living pond installation in collaboration with a community of molecular bodies. Inorganic animacies, extra-human subjectivities, and encounters with entropy; Bloom explores the erotic potential of becoming molecular.

Illness and Objecthood
Solo exhibition, LEFT Contemporary

WINDSOR Ontario, Canada
UPDATE CANCELED for COVID + moved online

A solo exhibition by Laura Hudspith. At the intersections of art, critical theory, politics, and medicine, Hudspith creates an immersive installation that lays bare the private realms of sexuality and health. Casting and capturing pieces of herself in poetic and diaristic texts, sculpture, and lens-based performance, she enacts rituals of self-imposed objectification where the asomatous is somatically shed and agency reclaimed. Object and image compose self-referential installations, the same body castings, objects, and textiles commingling as physical sculpture as photographic prop. as part of her ongoing body of work, Illness and Objecthood.

Passion and Pretense
BeContemporary Gallery

INNISFIL Ontario, Canada
Oct 29 – Nov 28, 2020
reception October 29, 2020

artists Luci Dilkus, Ted Fullerton, John Hartman, Laura Hudspith, Jeanette Luchese, Michelle Nguyen, Cheryl Ruddock, and Sasha Shevchenko.

Photographic works from Laura Hudspith’s ongoing Illness and Objecthood series are on view during ‘Passion & Pretense at BeContemporary Gallery in Innisfil, Canada. Working across a variety of media, eight artists expose an art form that is universal and evolving, yet often remains decontextualized, suppressed, and hidden from view within mainstream cultural institutions.

VAM 42nd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts
The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM)

MISSISSAUGA Ontario, Canada
reception January 16, 2020

Recipient of a Jurors’ Award.

artists Peter Adams, Shankar Adiseshan, Khadija Aziz, Kaitlin Brough, Maxwell Burnstein, Carol Cheong, Pat Dumas-Hudecki, Elizabeth Elkin, Fiona Freemark, Stuart Godfrey, Anran Guo, Janet Heath, Sara Heinonen, Carrie Heppenheimer, Laura Hudspith, Lisa Jayne Irvine, Gustavo Jabbaz, Mihyun Maria Kim, Katherine A. Laird, Emma Lau, Steven Laurie, Isaac Lotz, Karim Machado-Aman, Jacqueline Mak, Jude Marion, Nicole Moss, Joseph Muscat, Anne Nawrocka, Sherry Park, John Richer, Clare Samuel, Mercedes Schuster, Jon Shaw, Sasha Shevchenko, Laurie Skantzos, Gillian Toliver, Ian Varney, Hannah Veiga, Thang Vu, and Petra Zantingh.

Cuties Who Are Nice
KONTORT, Presented by the Magenta Foundation

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
reception Thurs. October 10, 2019
artists Ellen Bleiwas, Laura Hudspith, Megan Ellen MacDonald, and Luca Soldovieri.

The artists in Cuties Who Are Nice observe the value of objects and the desire to give them meaning. Via two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums, Cuties Who Are Nice tempts the viewer with desire for a stolen tactile moment with the objects.

This exhibition presents “pretty little art from pretty little women” to illustrate the charged weight of material and object. Engaging with organic and constructed materials, the artists in Cuties Who Are Nice explore the unfamiliarity into what we think we already know. Working in “domestic spaces,” simple objects such as a bedroom, a love letter, or a curtain expose their true strangeness and abnormality. Cuties Who Are Nice celebrates the strength, ability, and contributions of four female artists who subvert attitudes and behaviours in their work.

Chill Life; Contemporary Still Lives
The White House

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
Curated by Nicholas Zirk

August 29 – September 5, 2019
reception Thurs. August 29

artists Ibrahim Abusita, Laura Hudspith, Phuong Nguyen, Izaak Sacrebleau, Tyler Vipond, and Cameron Wylie.

Still life since the renaissance has been an allegorical genre, a means of using objects and arrangement to convey meaning. Whereas the dutch painters of the reformation coded morals and social values into their still lives, the contemporary still life takes a more oblique approach. The six artists of Chill Life use elements of still life to consider a range of contemporary issues, from feminist discourse and identity markers to reductivity and information transfer.

Working site responsively, their process began with objects, images and materials collected around the Lower Mainland–their collection acting as the semiotic-aesthetic springboard for the creative process. The resulting exhibition plays with perspective and reductivity, examining the meanings we make through the objects that we keep. Collections of found objects and cast facsimiles are composed and stacked across interconnected surfaces, while paintings in the round and drawn symbols expand and flatten the genre of still life. Stage-like structures are reminiscent of contemporary photography and the genre’s renaissance as a consumer culture motif, while others echo the architectural elements of the gallery space.

3/e EDITION TORONTO
via Hektor Projects

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
October 26-28th, 2018
collector preview October 25th, 6-10 pm

Hektor Projects presents new work responding to the theme of editions by eight artists including Laura Hudspith, Juliet Di Carlo, Luca Soldovieri, Rachel Burns, Brody Weaver, Alexis Vo, Sophia Oppel, and Toko Hosoya. While the creation of multiples through the process of moulding and casting forms the foundation of Laura Hudspith’s installation-based practice, works in series or editions are uncommon. Thus, new work by the artist titled Amarus Ends, responds to the theme of 3/e Editions Toronto in the creation of a sculptural still life that separates into an edition of ten, each object compositionally unique. Hudspith’s 2018 stilled work carries the same duality that marks the genre’s history, both subversive and indifferent.

Lorem Ipsum
Solo exhibition, This Month Only Gallery

June 15 – 23, 2018
Produced by Nicholas Silvani, with exhibition text by Morris Fox.

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Salon À Côté #3
Duo exhibtion with Nicholas zirk, À Côté Studio

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
March 17 – 30, 2018
Curated by Francois À Côté

Salon À Côté #3 is a presetation of new works by artists Laura Hudspith and Nicholas Zirk. Twenty-one works in all–fourteen from Hudspith and eleven by Zirk–works traverse the range of their respective practices from still life to portraiture painting, photography, sculpture, and video.

DRIVE-IN
Katzman Contemporary

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
July 1, 2017

artists Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Trudy Elmore, Laura Hudspith, and the collaborative duo Broadbent Sisters.

DRIVE-IN is a one-night-only film and video festival featuring recent works by five video-based and multidisciplinary artists. The festival runs concurrently at Katzman Contemporary alongside DRIVE-THRU, an exhibition of material-based work related to multiples. Hudspith’s eerily silent video titled, Peach's Peaches (2017) will screen indoors at the event, while her tableau vivant, On the Table (2017) will be projected on a loop in the outdoor space.

DRIVE-THRU
Katzman Contemporary

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
June 9 – August 5, 2017

artists Barbara Balfour, Broadbent Sisters, Stella Cade, Brandon A. Dalmer, James Gardner, Wyn Geleynse, Ido Govrin, Laura Hudspith, John Kissick, Braden Labonte, Meryl McMaster, Sam Mogelonsky, Meghan Price, Yvonne Singer, Miles Stemp, Tian Xiaolei, Yi Xin Tong, VSVSVS, Dustin Wilson, Xiaojing Yan, and Akira Yoshikawa.

DRIVE-THRU is a 21-artist exhibition of artist multiples and artists whose work considers multiplicity and replication.

In the works by artist Laura Hudspith, familiar forms cast in peculiar materials create four playful, even absurd, sculptural assemblages that constellate to form her Low Hanging Fruit instalaltion. Hudspith connects the repetitive rituals of food, beauty, and sex with a sense of diluted glamour and the question of individual agency. Hudspith will be one of five artists and duo presenting recent film and video works at Katzman Contemporary’s DRIVE-IN film and video festival in July, concurrent with this exhibtion.

Exhibition essay written by Ashley McLellan, Impressions of TL;DR - New Exhibition by Laura Hudspith.

TL;DR
Solo exhibition, Project Gallery

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
May 18 – May 28, 2017

For her first solo exhibition in Project Gallery’s main space, Hudspith will transform the gallery into a dramatic installation combining sculpture, video projection, and neon, where light emanating from each work illuminates the next. Her projected tableaux vivant depicts a near-motionless woman amidst both real and faux, fresh and rotting delicacies, conjuring a sense of stagnation and tension. A large unmarked grave across the gallery’s floor pulses light and sets a synthetic overgrown garden aglow, its dense flora saturated with viscous biofluids. Neon light casts the flippant message ‘tl;dr’ across the scene, and creates a sense of an impassable force.

Upon discovering her incongruous memory of a passage written by Alice Munro in Lives of Girls and Women, where the young protagonist misunderstands the gravity of a gruesome truth and instead envisions an implausible alt-reality, Hudspith staged and filmed an elaborated version of this illogical error. In her tableaux, a woman lays on a cold marble tabletop amidst a feast. The figure is at once hyper-sexualized and neutered, her body revealed underneath a clear plastic dress so tight as to flatten her curves. Fruit begins to rot, pink milk sours, and a glass of black liquid is overturned. What’s left reveals its synthetic nature – a silicone aspic, plastic fruit, pink rubber tarts – and the woman in the dress remains breathing lightly.

The artist is interested in the effects of cultural trends on the way people understand the world’s workings and their agency within it. In particular, Hudspith contemplates the effects of individualist culture on radicalization and the growing divide between socio-political ideologies. Using a feminist lens through which to examine this divide, TL;DR creates a picture of contemporary communication caught in between cause and effect, dialogue and the echo chamber, life and death, gender and equity, and naivete versus the explicit.

Lacunae
Solo exhibition, Project Studio Gallery

TORONTO Ontario, Canada
April 1 – 24, 2016

Q&A Interview by Sonja Socknat, Laura Hudspith: 'Lacunae'
Exhibition Essay by Alex Raponi, Laura Hudspith; Project Gallery

Lacunae, is a solo exhibition of new work by Toronto-based artist, Laura Hudspith. The work combines the artist’s ceramic practice and her experience and fascination with taxidermy. The resulting body of work is one that examines our tendency to satisfy nostalgic impulses and to fill emotional voids through collecting and amassing objects and ‘things’.

Of particular interest to Hudspith is the intersection between this common pattern of consumption and au courant ideologies as well as fashionable trends. Employing both humour and hope, Lacunae’s complex porcelain objects paired with animal, insect and manufactured material, canvas such diverse themes as sentimentality and longing, ownership and power dynamics, mass consumption, and the paradox between mortality and permanence.