2016 Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program Artist Biographies
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Dan Hudson
Dan Hudson is a Canadian artist based in Canmore, Canada. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art at York University and studied anthropology at University of California, San Diego. Hudson maintains a project-based art practice that incorporates and combines various media including photography, video, painting and sculpture. Hudson’s work has been shown internationally and is represented in the collections of museums, public galleries and private collections throughout North America and Europe. In recent years, Hudson has received six international awards for his art projects.
Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu is an artist, musician and composer working in New York City. Her work stands at an intersection between mathematics, music and visual representation. Zhu began as a Presidential-Scholar painter and cartoonist for the Washington Post, then majored in both art and mathematics at Yale University and graduated from music conservatory in Belgium in carillon performance. She has since exhibited her work – paintings, murals, sculpture, photographs, music compositions, sound – in Belgium, Holland, Finland and the United States. Currently Zhu is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College and is the carillonneur at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.
Andrea Nelson
There is no shortage of material remains in any human environment; their value, however, is of subjective and personal estimation. Assemblage and collage artist Andrea Nelson is predisposed to the possibility that treasure exists everywhere. She sees it in dirt, bones, nickel toys, diner menus, airport maps and other relics that wear the weight of their past or contemporary context. Her artistic arrangements illuminate a sense of wonder in the lost, discarded, antiquated and overlooked, drawing lines of association between seemingly unrelated ideas. Nelson’s perspective is greatly influenced by her rural Alaskan world and professional work in archaeology and museums.
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