Alexandra Suda

Alexandra Suda is a Canadian art historian who is the 11th director of the National Gallery of Canada, since 19 April 2019.[1]

Early life and education

Suda was born in Orillia, Ontario and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She completed a BA at Princeton University, an MA at Williams College, before earning her PhD at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.[2]

Career

Prior to her current appointment, Suda was Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.[3] According to the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference, her Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibition, held in Ontario, New York and Amsterdam, "received extensive positive press for its high level of scholarship which is driven by the public's curiosity about these wondrous works of art."[2]

In 2020, Suda was part of a jury that chose Stan Douglas to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale.[4]

Publications
  • Suda, Alexandra; Ellis, Lisa. "Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures". Art Gallery of Ontario, 2016.
  • Suda, Alexandra, Boehm, Barbara Drake. "Handpicked: Collecting Boxwood Carvings from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries." In: Scholten, Frits (ed), "Small Wonders: Late-Gothic Boxwood Micro-Carvings from the Low Countries". Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016.
  • "The Girona Martyrology: Belief in the guise of Violence and Beauty". Autopsia: Blut- und Augenzeugen, 2014

References
  1. Minister Rodriguez Announces Appointment of New Director of National Gallery of Canada Department of Canadian Heritage. Retrieved 13 February 2019
  2. "Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference". Retrieved 12 December 2018
  3. "Dr. Alexandra Suda". CODART. Retrieved 12 December 2018
  4. Alex Greenberger (January 15, 2020), Stan Douglas, Leading Video Artist with an Eye Toward the Marginalized, Will Represent Canada at 2021 Venice Biennale ARTnews.
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