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Cathy Busby
Cathy Busby is Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 20, 1958, Busby is an artist who often amasses collections to create art and make meaning, including public apologies; vehicle make and model names; neighbourhood posters; message t-shirts; corporate slogans; self-help books; and portraits.
During her undergrad at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) (BFA 1984), she made art and voiced her concerns about women's rights, including affordable housing, job equity, and the proliferation of militarism. During her MA in Media Studies (Concordia University, 1992), her PhD in communication (Concordia University, 1999) she investigated self-help books and recovery culture as a way to think about the politics of pain, later making art about public apologies, memorials, and care within and outside healthcare institutions.
Over the last 30 years, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including in New York, Beijing, Melbourne and Berlin.
Busby completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (1984) and a Masters of Arts in Media Studies from Concordia University (1992). She has a PhD in Communication from Concordia University (1999) and was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University (1995–1996).
Busby was an adjunct professor of visual art in the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (2013–2019), and has lectured and instructed at various institutions including Emily Carr University, Mount Saint Vincent University, NSCAD and Carleton University.
Busby is the author of numerous artist books and publications including I WONDER: Art + Care + Dementia (Art Metropole, 2025). She is the interviewer/editor of Making the Invisible Visible (University of the Creative Arts, 2016), and the co-editor of, and a contributor to, the anthology When Pain Strikes (University of Minnesota, 1999).
Her critical writing and artworks have been published in Image, Index and Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Photography (Gallery 44, YYZ Press, 2005) and General Idea Editions 1967–1995 (Blackwood Gallery, 2003), as well as C Magazine, Fuse, Tessara, Border/lines, Archivaria, The Capilano Review, and Canadian Art.
Over the last 30 years, Busby has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in New York, Beijing, Melbourne and Berlin. Recently her artistic and curatorial work has been shown at Griffin Art Projects, Art Metropole, Union Theological Seminary, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Simon Fraser University, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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Cathy Busby
Cathy Busby is Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 20, 1958, Busby is an artist who often amasses collections to create art and make meaning, including public apologies; vehicle make and model names; neighbourhood posters; message t-shirts; corporate slogans; self-help books; and portraits.
During her undergrad at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) (BFA 1984), she made art and voiced her concerns about women's rights, including affordable housing, job equity, and the proliferation of militarism. During her MA in Media Studies (Concordia University, 1992), her PhD in communication (Concordia University, 1999) she investigated self-help books and recovery culture as a way to think about the politics of pain, later making art about public apologies, memorials, and care within and outside healthcare institutions.
Over the last 30 years, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including in New York, Beijing, Melbourne and Berlin.
Busby completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (1984) and a Masters of Arts in Media Studies from Concordia University (1992). She has a PhD in Communication from Concordia University (1999) and was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University (1995–1996).
Busby was an adjunct professor of visual art in the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (2013–2019), and has lectured and instructed at various institutions including Emily Carr University, Mount Saint Vincent University, NSCAD and Carleton University.
Busby is the author of numerous artist books and publications including I WONDER: Art + Care + Dementia (Art Metropole, 2025). She is the interviewer/editor of Making the Invisible Visible (University of the Creative Arts, 2016), and the co-editor of, and a contributor to, the anthology When Pain Strikes (University of Minnesota, 1999).
Her critical writing and artworks have been published in Image, Index and Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Photography (Gallery 44, YYZ Press, 2005) and General Idea Editions 1967–1995 (Blackwood Gallery, 2003), as well as C Magazine, Fuse, Tessara, Border/lines, Archivaria, The Capilano Review, and Canadian Art.
Over the last 30 years, Busby has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in New York, Beijing, Melbourne and Berlin. Recently her artistic and curatorial work has been shown at Griffin Art Projects, Art Metropole, Union Theological Seminary, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Simon Fraser University, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.