Cathy Busby
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Cathy Busby is a Canadian artist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 20, 1958, Busby is an artist who has a long-time interest in posters and printed matter and their potential for grassroots communication. She worked as an artist-activist in the 80’s and has had exhibitions in Berlin at the Emerson Gallery of posters collected in Halifax entitled The North End. Other recent exhibitions include Sorry, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax and McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (2005); Totalled, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (2004); Testdrive, eyelevelgallery, Halifax (2002); How…, Gallery 101, Ottawa (2001).
Busby is co-editor of and 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 and Archivaria. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, an MA in Media Studies (1992) and a PhD in Communication (1999) from Concordia University, Montreal.
