Info — Laura Hudspith

LAURA HUDSPITH

Laura Hudspith (b. 1990, Toronto) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the personal health and socio-cultural possibilities that might arise through cultivating a practice of turning inwards. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, and text, her work articulates a reorientation toward molecular or atomic concerns; toward the in/organic animacies and other im/material formations that flow through, around, and comprise all bodies; and toward questions on the nature of being and the mattering of matter.

She is currently based in Montréal, and is represented by Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto.

EDUCATION

2023 MFA, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Art; Crossed Purposes Fellow, Pittsburgh (USA)
2013 BFA, Concordia University, Fine Arts; Irene F. Whittome Prize in Studio Arts, Montreal (Canada)

CURRENT & FORTHCOMING

2024 Internal Circumstances. Solo exhibition; CIBC Square, Toronto (Canada)
2024 Smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back. Group exhibition; Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh (USA)

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Enduring Emanations. Solo exhibition; Mrs., Maspeth (USA)
2023 Emanations. Solo exhibition booth; NADA NYC with Zalucky Contemporary, NYC (USA)
2021 Illness and Objecthood. Solo exhibition; LEFT Contemporary, Windsor (Canada) *Cancelled due to covid and moved online
2019 Things fall into place. Collaborative Duo Exhibition w/ Nicholas Zirk; Red Gate Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
2018 Pink Champagne. Solo exhibition; Wreck City 2018: Radio City, Calgary (Canada)
2018 Lorem Ipsum. Solo exhibition; This Month Only Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
2018 Salon #3. Two-person exhibition w/ Nicholas Zirk; À Côté Studios, Toronto (Canada)
2017 TL;DR. Solo exhibition; Project Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
2016 Lacunae. Solo exhibition; Project Gallery Studios, Toronto (Canada)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Thump, whoosh, rumble. Thesis exhibition; Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (USA)
2023 Everything Once Arranged Has Becomes Scattered. The Anderson Gallery, Richmond (USA). Curated by Sanija Dowden, India Mawn, Eileen Morley, Sophia Saucer, & Zachary Thomas-Kucerak.
2022 held open. Focus exhibition; Art Toronto, Toronto (Canada). Curated by Marie-Charlotte Carrier.
2022 Paradeisos. Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal (Canada)
2022 Vessels, Orbs and Pyrophytic Pods. Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (Canada)
2022 The Weight. Katzman ART Projects, Halifax (Canada)
2022 A Nimbus, A Lark, and a Broken Link. Platform Gallery, Pittsburgh (USA)
2022 There are seams in purgatory. Featured exhibtion; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown (USA)
2021 Move Objects On. The Plumb, Toronto (Canada). Curated by Alison Postma & Emma Green.
2021 In Keeping with Myself. The Portrait Gallery of Canada, Online/Ottawa (Canada). Curated by Darren Pottie.
2020 Come in, you’re not welcome. The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh (USA)
2020 Passion and Pretence. BeContemporary, Innisfil (Canada). Curated by Ted Fullerton.
2020 Grey Matter. OCAD University, Toronto, (Canada). Curated by Taya Cornett.
2020 VAM’s 42 Juried Show of Fine Art. Jurors’ Prize recipient; AGM, Mississauga, (Canada)
2019 Conversations about Death. The Cameron House, Toronto, (Canada). Curated by Jessica Flaman.
2019 Cuties Who Are Nice. Kontort, Toronto, (Canada). Curated by Marianne Katzman & produced by Magenta Foundation.
2019 Chill Life. The White House, Toronto, (Canada). Curated by Nicholas Zirk.
2019 G.I.F.C Toronto. Editions exhibtion; The Costume House, Toronto, (Canada)
2018 Longest Night Salon. This Month Only Gallery, Toronto, (Canada). Produced by Nicholas Silvani and Morris Fox.
2018 Amarus Ends. 3/e EditionsToronto w/ Hektor Projects, Toronto (Canada). Curated by Matthew Varey & Spencer Julien.
2017 DRIVE-IN. Video screening; Katzman Contemporary, Toronto (Canada)
2017 DRIVE-THRU. Katzman Contemporary, Toronto (Canada)
2016 This is What Makes Our Guts so Vibrant. Femme Wave 2016; TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary (Canada). Curated by Dana Buzzee.
2015 Once Removed. InterAccess Gallery, Toronto (Canada). Curated by Brandon A. Dalmer.
2015 Two by Two: Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial. EWU Gallery of Art, Washington (USA). Curated by Timea Tihanyi.
2015 Monumental Ideas/Intimate Scale. SMSU Rivercampus Gallery, Marshall (USA). Produced by Kristin Powers Nowlin.
2014 Dialogue. Roundtable Residency Exhibition: Dragon Academy, Toronto (Canada)
2014 Manifold. L’Atelier Bovril, Montreal (Canada). Co-curated by Laura Hudspith & Simone Blain.
2013 Graduating Student’s Exhibition. FOFA Gallery, Montreal (Canada). Curated by Jake Moore.
2013 Still Standing. Entrée des Artistes, Montréal (Canada)
2013 Approximate. VAV Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
2012 You’re Fired. Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
2012 Material Culture. VAV Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
2011 Material Flux. Galerie Rye, Montreal (Canada)
2011 Beauty in Obsession. Art Matters Festival; Galerie Rye, Montreal (Canada). Curated by Hania Souleiman.

FAIRS

2023 Art Toronto: Toronto International Airt Fair. Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (Canada)
2023 NADA: New Art Dealers Alliance New York. Solo installation; Zalucky Contemporary, Booth P29, New York (USA)
2022 Art Toronto: Toronto International Art Fair. Zalucky Contemporary, Booth A20, Toronto (Canada)
2021 Art Toronto: Toronto International Art Fair. The Plumb, Booth P13, Toronto (Canada)

RESIDENCIES

2022 Pittsburgh Glass Center, Idea Furnace Residency, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
2019 James Black Gallery Guest Residency, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
2018 WRECK CITY, Calgary, AB (Canada)
2018 ACAD Thematic Summer Residency, Calgary, AB (Canada)
2014 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT (USA)
2014 The Roundtable Residency, Toronto, ON (Canada)

HONOURS, AWARDS & GRANTS

2024 CIBC Arts – 2024 C2 Art Award
2020 Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University – Micro Research and Creation Grant
2020 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation – Internatioanl Artist Grant
2020 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Artists, Creation Project Grant
2020 Canada Council for the Arts – Explore & Create; Research & Creation Grant
2020 Visual Arts Mississauga – Juror’s Prize; VAM 42 Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
2019 Toronto Arts Council – Visual Artists, Individual Practice Grant
2019 Toronto Arts Council – Newcomer & Refugee Mentorship Grant mentoring artist Sedigheh Aldevood
2018 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Artists, Creation Project Grant
2013 Concordia University – Irene F. Whittome Prize in Studio Arts; highest recognition in Fine Arts
2011 Concordia University – Retired Faculty & Staff Scholarship

CURATORIAL & ARTS ADMINISTRATION

2020 QuaranTonics; Online exhibition platform – Founder & Curator
2019 This Month Only; Gallery, Toronto – Co-Curatorial Director
2015 The Roundtable Residency, Toronto – Board of Directors through 2018
2015 Ten.A.City; Emerging artist mentorship program, Toronto – Co-Founder & Director
2014 Manifold, L’Atelier Bovril, Montreal – Co-Curator w/ Simone Blain
2011 Material Flux, Galerie Rye, Montreal – Exhibition Director

TALKS

2023 Artist Talk, C² Art Award Preview for Internal Circumstances. CIBC Square, Toronto (Canada)
2022 Artist Talk, 19th Annual C-Magazine Contemporary Art Auction Preview. Ace Hotel, Toronto (Canada)
2019 Panelist, Conversations about Death Panel Discussion. The Cameron House, Toronto, (Canada). Moderated by Jessica Flaman.
2014 Artist Talk, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge (USA)

SELECTED REVIEWS, FEATURES & CATALOGUES

2023 Callander, Angel. “A historical and contemporary primer on stained glass.” Public Parking, May 29, 2023.
2023 Lawson, Katie. "Mutable Matters: A Conversation with Laura Hudspith." Peripheral Review, March 17, 2023.
2022 Bryant, Nolan. “How art thou: On the scene at gallery and show openings in Toronto.” The Globe and Mail, November 11, 2022.
2022 Taylor, Kate. “Art Toronto, the national art fair, is back.” The Globe and Mail, October 24, 2022.
2021 Ed. collective of Vast Magazine. “Laura Hudspith.” Vast Magazine, Issue 3, September 23, 2021, 100-101.
2021 Fournier, Lauren. Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021), 189.
2018 Dalmer, Brandon, L. Hudspith, R. Noone, M. Fox, K. Lawson, eds. Roundtable Residency: Artist Directory 2013–2018. (Toronto, Ontario: Roundtable, 2018) 28-9.
2018 Hudspith, Laura. "Road Pops - Episode August 3, 2018: Wreck City 2018; Artist Interview." CJSW, Road Pops. 2018 Aug 3.
2018 Bladon, N., E. Zibaei. “Laura Hudspith.” Influence Magazine, June Collective, July 3, 2018.
2016 Hudspith, Laura. "Art AF - Episode December 5, 2016: Femme Wave 2016; Artist Interview." Art AF Podcast. 2016 Dec 5.
2016 Raponi, Alex. “Laura Hudspith; Project Gallery,” The Artistorian. April 23, 2016.
2012 Eds. of Interfold Magazine. “Artist of the Month Laura Hudspith: 12/2012”, Interfold Magazine, December 2012.
2012 Eds. of Interfold Magazine. “Obsession,” Interfold Magazine, Issue 2, Concordia University, March 2012: 17, 61.
2012 Eds. of Interfold Magazine. “Confines,” Interfold Magazine, Issue 1, Concordia University, January 2012, 29-31, 49.
2011 Gould, Trevor ed. Disjointed Narratives: Diverse Perspectives in Sculpture. (Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University Sculpture Department Catalogue of Collective Work, July 2011).
2011 Alley, Jessica. “Art Matters Review: Beauty in Obsession at Galerie Rye.” Forget the Box Media Collective, March 19, 2011.
2011 Gay, Sophia. “Art Matters Leaves Viewers With Something to Think About: Two Exhibits Give Perspective on What Home and Beauty Are All About.” The Concordian, March 15, 2011.

COLLECTIONS
Works held in the Ceramics Area Permanent Teaching Collection at Concordia University (Montreal), & in private collections in Canada and the United States.