Suzanne Hudson

Clark Fellow

07/10/2023–08/18/2023

Suzanne Hudson is professor of art history and fine arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was also recently named faculty fellow in the Society of Fellows. Hudson is an art historian and critic whose research spans the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries with special emphasis on the history, theory, and conventions of painting within art schools and alternative pedagogical institutions, which include spaces of care work and medical and psychological services. At the Clark, she will be working on a book titled Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process, a study of the therapeutic origins of artmaking within American modernism.