FACULTY
Suzanne P. Hudson
Assistant Professor
Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art
sphudson@illinois.edu | website | CV
Teaching areas:
Modern and Contemporary Art, American Art, Art Criticism
Research areas:
Abstract art, formalism, American philosophy, the history and theory of painting, art pedagogy, and institutional history
Degrees:
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University
Suzanne P. Hudson is Assistant Professor of Art History and a specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art, teaching currently at the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection (illinoisatthephillips.org). She is co-founder of the Contemporary Art Think Tank (www.cattdc.net) and co-founder and President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, an affiliate society of the College Art Association. In addition to her work as an art historian, she is an active critic whose work has appeared in such publications as Parkett, Flash Art, and Art Journal; she is a regular contributor to Artforum. She published Robert Ryman: Used Paint in early 2009 (MIT Press) and is currently at work on a second book length manuscript, Our Uncommon Faith: Abstraction and Spirituality in 1960s America, a study of artists who engaged ideas of mysticism and Gnosticism (often secular) by means of abstraction.
