Internet,http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/11/07/31520.html, 15-09-2004
Information trouvée : Collector, curator and founder of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation in Toronto, Ydessa
Hendeles was born in Germany in 1948 as the only child of Jewish parents, both survivors
of the Holocaust. Raised in Canada, she began to exhibit contemporary art in 1980
and ran, until 1988, The Ydessa Gallery in Toronto, which was an influential commercial
gallery because of its prescient choices and support of emerging Canadian artists
such as Jeff Wall, Jana Sterbak, Ken Lum, Krysztof Wodiczko and Rodney Graham, who
are now well-known internationally. In 1988 she founded the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation
to present works curated from her developing collection, which is wide in its scope,
including contemporary art, sculpture, installations and videos, as well as historical
and documentary photography, news photographs, family album photographs and antique
toys.