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Jon Barlow Hudson (born in Montana, United States) is an American sculptor.
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Life and work
Hudson was born in Montana and then lived in Wyoming for the first five years of his life. Although he experimented with different art forms as a child, he didn't become interested in sculpture until college. After studying for two years at the Dayton Art Institute, Hudson switched to travelling for a year. He spend six months working in West Africa with his father and the other six working at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart, Germany. After a motorcycle accident Hudson returned to the states and worked as the assistant to sculptor Charles Ginnever. After a year with Ginnever he then went back to school and earned his Bachelor and Master of fine arts degrees at the California Institute of the Arts in 1972 and Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio in 1975. Hudson has been creating public sculptures since 1976 and since then his sculptures have been installed in 26 countries around the world.
Hudson's first international commission was for two sculptures to be displayed at the World Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia. Hudson's sculpture Paradigm was the first in the world to be designed with the help of a computer, and the first to have a computerized lighting system installed. Hudson usually works with stone and steel but has also worked with brass, copper, bronze, and more.
He is currently based in Ohio.