Ydessa Hendeles

Ydessa Hendeles
Ydessa Hendeles
Born December 27, 1948[1]
Marburg, Germany
Nationality Canadian
Known for Artist-curator
Art collector
Philanthropist

Ydessa Hendeles, C.M., O.Ont., PhD, LL.D. (Hon.), D.F.A. (Hon.), A.O.C.A.D., D.T.A.T.I. (born 1948 in Germany) is a Canadian artist-curator, collector and philanthropist.[2] She has worked as an art historian and gallerist. From 1988 to 2012, she was the museum director and curator of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation.[3] A graduate of the University of Toronto, the New School of Art and the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, Hendeles earned her PhD, cum laude, from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Known for her philanthropy, in 2009 Hendeles donated 32 works of International and Canadian contemporary art to the Art Gallery of Ontario. This donation represented the most significant single gift in the gallery's history.[4]

Life and work

The Ydessa Gallery

In 1980, Hendeles opened The Ydessa Gallery in Toronto, a commercial space devoted to the presentation of Canadian contemporary art.[3] She closed The Ydessa Gallery in 1988. The gallery represented such artists as Kim Adams, Shelagh Alexander, Tony Brown, FASTWÜRMS, Andreas Gehr, Rodney Graham, Noel Harding, Nancy Johnson, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, John Massey, John McEwen, Sandra Meigs, Jana Sterbak, Jeff Wall and Krzysztof Wodiczko.[5]

Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation

Hendeles established the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation in 1988 and in the same year opened an exhibition space at 778 King Street West in downtown Toronto, Canada's first privately funded contemporary art museum. The Foundation closed its gallery doors in 2012.[6][7] Hendeles became well known for her use of museological objects in combination with contemporary art works, such as in Strait-Jacket (2009–2012) when she exhibited antique Punch and Judy puppets alongside video-work by Pipilotti Rist.[8]

Exhibitions

In 2003, at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Hendeles guest-curated Partners, a 16-gallery exhibition that included work by Diane Arbus, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Hanne Darboven, Walker Evans, Luciano Fabro, On Kawara, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Giulio Paolini, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner. This exhibition also included Hendeles's own work Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002, a large-scale installation built around an archive of family-album photographs, each including the image of a teddy bear.[9]

Other exhibitions include Marburg! The Early Bird! at the Marburger Kunstverein, Germany (2010);[10] The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2011–2012)[11] and THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW at Galerie Johann König, Berlin (2012).[12] Her work From her wooden sleep... (2013) was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK in 2015.[13]

Recognition

Hendeles was inducted as a Member into the Order of Canada in 2004[14] and the Order of Ontario in 1998.[15] She received a Governor General's Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Contribution in the Visual and Media Arts."[16]

Hendeles has received honorary doctorates from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design[17] and the University of Toronto,[18] and an Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University in Montreal.[19] She was also named an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art and Design, now OCAD University.[20]


References

  1. ↑ Amaral, Rui. "The Author as Autoethnographer" (PDF). open research.
  2. ↑ "Art Gallery of Ontario".
  3. 1 2 "The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2002". canadacouncil.ca.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". Ago.net. Art Gallery of Ontario. January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Rhodes, Richard. "Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation: Once Upon a Time" (Fall 2014). Canadian Art.
  7. ↑ "End of an era: Ydessa Hendeles has closed her Toronto gallery doors". The Globe and Mail.
  8. ↑ Allen, Jennifer (December 2009). "The Ydessa Syndrome" (127). Frieze Magazine.
  9. ↑ Hendeles, Ydessa (2003). Partners. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. ISBN 3-88375-755-1.
  10. ↑ Hoffmann, Jens (Summer 2011). "Review of 'Marburg! The Early Bird!'". Frieze d/e 1 (1): 143.
  11. ↑ Milroy, Sarah. "The Wedding: Ydessa Hendeles’ New York Vow". Canadian Art. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ König Galerie. "THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW".
  13. ↑ "From her wooden sleep". ICA. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Order of Canada".
  15. ↑ "Order of Ontario". Order of Ontario.
  16. ↑ Government of Canada (Canada Council for the Arts and Governor General). "The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2002)". Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  17. ↑ NSCAD. "Facts and Figures: Selected Honorary Degree Recipients" (PDF). NSCAD. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  18. ↑ Anson Mime, Christina. "All About Alumni". University of Toronto. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  19. ↑ Concordia Journal. "Faculty of Fine Arts honours contributions". Concordia University. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  20. ↑ OCADU. "Honorary Fellows (1973 to 2002)" (PDF). OCADU. Retrieved April 15, 2016.

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