Cody Hudson – Struggle Inc.

Cody Hudson is a Chicago-based artist. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), New Image Art (LA), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Lazy Dog (Paris) and Andrew Rafacz (Chicago). Cody Hudson also founded Stuggle Inc. which is a Chicago-based commercial art house. Known for the production of clean, multi-dimensional graphics, Stuggle Inc.’s design aesthetic is part urban modernism and part organic visual deconstruction.

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Let’s start with a simple one. Who is Cody Hudson?
I think that would be me.
Since I last interviewed you almost 5 years ago, what’s been happening?
I’ve managed to get married, I’ve managed to keep the studio open for 5 more years, I’ve managed to spend more time in the studio working on my personal work.
What do you think of robots?
I’m not the hugest fan of them, I went through a phase of drawing them a lot about 13 years ago but luckily have moved on to other interests. I look back at those paintings and drawings and I’m not embarrassed because they helped me get where I am now, but I am not super excited about that work much.
If you could go back to the beginning of your career and do things differently, would you?
That’s a hard one because everything I did (between going to a 2 year technical school instead of a traditional art school and leaning how to use a computer on my own and working odd jobs at the animation house, etc) lead me to where I am now, so to go back and do it differently might have a different result. And not to say that result would be bad, but it would be different and I kinda like where I am now.