Ydessa Hendeles

Ydessa Hendeles
Born 1948 (age 67–68)
Germany
Nationality Canadian
Known for Curator
Art collector
Philanthropist

Ydessa Hendeles (born 1948) is a Canadian curator, collector and philanthropist. 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.[1] She became a member of the Order of Canada in 1988 and in 2002 she was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Art.[2] Known for her philanthropy, in 2009 Hendeles donated 32 contemporary works International and Canadian contemporary art to the Art Gallery of Ontario. This donation represented the most significant single gift in the gallery's history.[3]

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.[1] She closed the Ydessa Gallery in 1988. The gallery represented such artists as Liz Magor, FASTWÜRMS, Sandra Meigs, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, and Rodney Graham.[4]

Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation

After closing The Ydessa Gallery in 1988 Hendeles opened the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation in the same year at 778 King Street in downtown Toronto, Canada's first privately funded contemporary art museum. The Foundation closed its doors in 2012.[5][6] 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.[7]

Independent Curatorial Projects

Hendeles began to produce independent curatorial projects in 2004 with Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) (2003–2004) at Haus der Kunst in Munich.[7] Since closing the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Hendeles has completed several independent curatorial projects including THE WEDDING (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York (2011-2012) and From her wooden sleep... at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, UK (2015).[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2002". canadacouncil.ca.
  2. ↑ "Awards 2002 - Biographies". Canada Council - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". Ago.net. Art Gallery of Ontario. January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ Rhodes, Richard. "Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation: Once Upon a Time" (Fall 2014). Canadian Art.
  6. ↑ "End of an era: Ydessa Hendeles has closed her Toronto gallery doors". The Globe and Mail.
  7. 1 2 Allen, Jennifer (Dec 2009). "The Ydessa Syndrome" (127). Frieze Magazine.
  8. ↑ "From her wooden sleep". ICA. Retrieved 9 March 2015.

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