Alexandra Suda

Alexandra Suda (born 1981) is a Canadian art historian who was formerly the director of the National Gallery of Canada.[1] In 2022, she was appointed the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Alexandra Suda
Born1981 (1981)
Orillia, Ontario
EducationBA at Princeton University; MA at Williams College; PhD at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University
Known forart historian

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

She served as 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] In April 2019, Suda was named director of the National Gallery of Canada.[1] Her tenure was criticized for lacking serious leadership and planning, being feckless and directed by dogma and mantra.[5]

In June 2022, the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced that Suda would assume the role of director at the Museum in September of that year.[6] In September 2022, workers at that museum held a strike over wages and working conditions[7] which lasted 19 days.[8] She stayed silent on the matter with a museum spokesperson saying she would not be part of the negotiations.[9]

Selected 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.
  5. "Andrew Cohen: Canada's National Gallery has become a woke national disgrace". nationalpost. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  6. Kinsella, Eileen (7 June 2022). "National Gallery of Ontario Director Sasha Suda Will Leave to Helm the Philadelphia Museum of Art". Artnet News. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  7. "Art Museum workers continue strike into second week". WHYY. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  8. Velie, Elaine (24 October 2022). "Philadelphia Museum Strikers Open Up on "Tense" Return to Work".
  9. Crimmins, Peter (24 October 2022). "Art Museum workers continue strike into second week". WHYY PBS.
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