CURRENT AND UPCOMING
I WONDER artist book, co-published with Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, funding BC Arts Council, March 2025
WE CALL in Creative Conciliations, digital projects, Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICC), Toronto, 2025
WE CALL in Creative Conciliations, book, Tarah Hogue, Jennifer Robinson eds., Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON, 2025
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / PROJECTS
2025
WE ARE SORRY fragment and printed matter, installation in Another Life: Mile Zero, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC
2024
PARKING, sound walk and installation in Feedback Loop, Both Kinds Gallery, Vancouver, BC
28 PORTRAITS, installation in The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, BC
STAND LAND PROTECTORS; STAND WATER PROTECTORS, ceramic platters in Raiders Made, Bohart, Port Moody, BC
HORIZONS, concept by Garry Neill Kennedy (1935-2021) exhibition realized collaboratively with curator Mandy Ginson, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2023
ON QUE IN PANTONE COLOURS OF THE YEAR, permanent installation in the lobby of On Que, Vancouver
2021
I WONDER, wall-text painting, semi-permanent installation (Nov 2021 - Feb 2024), Art Metropole, Toronto
Quarantine Countdown, wall painting, permanent installation, Louis Brier Home and Hospital, Vancouver
2019
Stand Land Protectors; Stand Water Protectors, ceramic platters in The Raiders, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, BC
WE CALL (SFU), reproduction in Women Deliver Cities curated by Germaine Koh, Vancouver Public Library, main branch, Vancouver
Subsidized in Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON
Parking, a madrigal choral composition / performance with lyrics from makes and models of parked cars in UBC's West Parkade, composed by Earle Peach, AHVA Faculty Exhibition, UBC, Vancouver
2018
Anna Leonowens was a Suffragist, re-issue of 1985 t-shirt edition for Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
WE CALL, installation in I Continue to Shape, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto
WE CALL, permanent installation, 1st Lind Family Artist-in-Residence, Upper Canada College, Toronto
2017
WE CALL, permanent installation, Gitksan Wet’suwet’en Education Society (GWES), Hazelton, BC
Intertribal Lifelines, performance collaboration with Charlene Vickers, Sound Thinking 2017: Sound for Action, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
Intertribal Lifelines, installation, collaboration with Charlene Vickers, Ground Signals, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey
Garry Kennedy+Cathy Busby: Activism, Arts Education and Printed Matter, exhibition, Toronto Art Book Fair, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto (June); Vancouver Art Book Fair, grunt gallery annex, Vancouver (Oct)
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance in dialogue with Robert Maki Curve/Diagonal sculpture, collaboration with Charlene Vickers in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
WE CALL, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
2016
Hands Across the Sky, performance with Charlene Vickers in Thirst Days, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
WE ARE SORRY, floor panel in Lalakenis, Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2014
Acquired in 1964, solo exhibition at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
INSPIRING, Outcomes faculty exhibition, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
WE ARE SORRY in Awalaskenis II - Journey of Truth and Unity, First Nations caravan from Bella Bella, BC to Ottawa, ON
SORRY Politicians, solo exhibition, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
Self-Help Library, installation in Where Does It Hurt?, Artspeak, Vancouver
Budget Cuts, This for That, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
2013
Steve’s Vinyl, book launch in conjunction with World AIDS Day, Printer Matter, New York (Dec 1)
WE ARE SORRY, wall-text work in Witnesses: Art and the Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
SORRY, Branded, Whatever I Like,Your Choice, artist books in Libro, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2012
BUDGET CUTS and SORRY, billboard and large-scale inkjet prints in Every Line & Every Other Line, Paved Arts/AKA Artist-run Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
About Face, Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice, invitation, AA Bronson, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Pickled Art Centre Opening (2008) with Jinkelong in (Da bao)(Takeout), Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON, 2012; Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, ON, 2012; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, AB, 2013; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, 2014
2011
Steve’s Vinyl, installation and performance, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax
Parking, installation in x2, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
Boldstep Half-Life, sound installation collaboration with Barbara Lounder in Debert Bunker exhibition, Debert, NS
Drive It Like You Stole It and SORRY, window-text painting and large-scale inkjet prints in Every Line & Every Other Line, Platform Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg
2010
Atrium, installation, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
In Conversation with They Chose China, installation with film by Shuibo Wang, Pickled Art, Unit One, Beijing
Reconciliation/Coincidence, books and printed matter in Art & Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Inspiring and Move In Now, wall-text paintings in Giving Notice: Words on Walls, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
WE ARE SORRY, fabric panels with Canadian and Australian apology texts, commissioned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Whatever I Like, large-scale posters and printed matter in Dongxi Things, Kunstverein Baden, Baden, Austria
Harriet Nahanee, window installation in Safe Façade, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
2009
Taken, photo installation, Red Gate Residency Gallery, Beijing
Beijing Cube installation, Beijing-Vancouver, Centre A, Vancouver
SORRY and WE ARE SORRY large-scale inkjet prints with and wall-text work, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT
WE ARE SORRY, large-scale site-specific semi-permanent installation (July 2009 – Feb 2013), Laneway Commissions, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Your Choice, large-format vinyl photo works and artist book, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
Righting the Wrongs, wall-text painting installation, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, Australia
SORRY, large-scale inkjet prints, COFA space, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
24/7, installation of drugstore toiletries with 24/7 printed on them, accompanied by related library books, in No Time to Lose, Aberdeen Business School Library, Peacock Centre for the Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland
Branded, wall-text painting and artist book, Render (formerly University of Waterloo Art Gallery), Waterloo
2007
Whatever I Like, wall-text painting installation and artist book, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
The North End, one year of event posters gathered from utility poles, installation and artist book, Art Metropole, Toronto
2006
The North End, installation and artist book, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
2005
24/7 at Work, related drug store toiletries and library books, Window Box Series installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax
SORRY, large-scale inkjet prints, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
SORRY, large-scale inkjet prints, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax
2004
Totalled, wall-text painting installation, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
2002
Testdrive, photos of SUV names, photos of public apologies, prints of marginal notes and underlining in self-help books, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
2001
How..., prints, marginal notes, underlining in self-help books, Gallery 101, Ottawa
1997
“Change Your Life!,” web performance, Blast5, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1996
Where Does It Hurt?, Self-Help Library and borrowed books about pain from a university, public and artist-centred library, film and video program, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, off-site, Calgary, AB
1994
Self-Help Library, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
TEACHING
Printed Matter, Visa 370, Fall 2019; Printed Matter, Visa 370, Winter 2018; Studio Theory, Visa 481, Winter 2017; Printed Matter, Visa 370, Fall 2015-16; Studio, Winter, Visa 401F; Printed Matter, Visa 370, Fall 2014-15; Studio, Winter, Visa 401A; Printed Matter, Fall 2013; Open Studio, 3rd and 4th year undergrad students, Winter semester, co-taught with Garry Neill Kennedy; MFA critiques, Fall and Winter semesters, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2013-14
“Printed Matter Seminar,” “Studio Practice,” Fall semester; “Open Studio,” BFA graduating students, co-taught with Garry Neill Kennedy, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, 2012-2013
“Art History II: 1400 to the Present,” Mount Saint Vincent University, Winter 2006; Winter 2007
Lecturer, “Art History I: Pre-history to 1400,” Mount Saint Vincent University, Fall 2005; Fall 2006
Instructor, “Introduction to Visual Culture,” 160 students / eight teaching assistants, NSCAD University, 2004
“Contemporary Art in Printed Matter,” MA Art History seminar, Carleton University, 2004
Adjunct Research Professor, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, 2004-2008
Supervisor, graduate and undergraduate students, National Gallery of Canada / Ottawa Art Gallery: 12 Art History graduate student interns; 4 graduate and undergraduate summer interns, 1998-2004
Thesis Committee External Examiner, Carleton University: MA Art History, 2003; MA Anthropology/ Sociology, 2003; MA Art History, 2002; MA Art History, Sept. 1999; MA Art History, Dec. 1999
“Women, Film and Video,” Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, 1992
“Film Analysis: Canadian Film,” NSCAD, Halifax, 1989
EDUCATION
1999
PhD Communication, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1995-96
Fulbright Fellowship, Visiting Researcher, New York University, New York
1992
MA Media Studies, Concordia University, Montreal
1984
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / POSITIONS
2018
Arts and Culture Policy Council (ACPC) liaison to Public Art Committee, City of Vancouver
2017
Member, Public Art Committee, City of Vancouver (2017-2020)
2016
Discursive Projects, presentation, “Power in the Darkness” OR Gallery, Vancouver
2014
Key-note speaker, awards event, Creative Challenge, University of the Creative Arts, London, UK
2013
Adjunct Professor / Artist-in-residence with teaching responsibilities, UBC, Vancouver (2013-2018)
Artist’s Talks: Belkin Art Gallery, UBC; Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK; OR Gallery, Berlin
2012
Artist-in-residence, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (2012-2013)
Artist’s Talks: Simon Fraser University; University of Saskatchewan; Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Presenter, Lecture Series with Marina Abromovic, Kara Walker, Renee Green, Fierce Pussy, Union Theological Seminary, New York
2011
Visiting Artist, West Broadway Poster Project week-long workshop, Art City, Winnipeg
Presenter, Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax
Presenter, “Unfortunately,” Fuller Terrace Lecture Series, Halifax
Assessment Committee Member, multi-year operating Grants, Media Arts Organizations, Canada Council
2010
Mentor, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax (2010-2011)
2009
Artist-in-residence, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2009-2010)
Assessment Committee Member, Shanghai Expo 2010, Canada Council
2007
Artist-in-Residence, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China (September-October 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010)
2006
Chair of Board/Board Member, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax (2006-2011)
Consultant/Mentor, website development, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University
2005
Assessment Committee Member, Visual Arts B grants, Canada Council
2003
Initiator, Artist-to-Artist, presentations and transcribed interviews with 20 Ottawa artists, The Ottawa Art Gallery
2002
Head of Public Programs, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa (2002-2004)
2001
Board Member / Chair, Programming Committee, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2001-2004)
2001
Curator, Bulldozer: 15 Yukon Artists / 15 artistes du Yukon, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2000
Consultant / co-author, Developing an Arts Scene: Art Education in the Yukon, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
1999
Thesis Committee External Examiner, Carleton University, Ottawa
1998
Senior Researcher/Writer, Education and Public Programs, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1998-2002)
1997
Contemporary Art Researcher, National Gallery of Canada, Artists’ Books in the Art Metropole Collection, Ottawa (1997-1998)
1995
Visiting Researcher, Fulbright Scholar, New York University, New York City (1995-1996)
1994
Assessment Committee Member, Operating Assistance to Media Arts organizations, Canada Council
1988
Director/Curator, Lifesize: Women and Film, National Film Board, Telefilm Canada, Halifax (1988-1989)
1985
Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax (1985-1988)
BOOKS / FOLDERS / EXHIBITION CATALOGUES / PAGEWORKS
2021
I WONDER, folder, Art Metropole, Toronto
2019
"Steve’s Vinyl" in Uncovering Artists’ Books, catalogue, Geraldine Davis, curator, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, p 154-159
2017
thirstDays, Love, intimacy and (com)passion in a geopolitical context, contributor, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, 160pp
2016
Making the Invisible Visible, interviewer/editor, conversations with five artists, University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent, UK, 88 pp
Taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action, page-work, C Magazine, Winter Issue 128, 2 pp
2015
Acquired in 1964, artist book / catalogue, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 60 pp
Journeys in Weaving Histories, Sydney Hart and Clay Little eds., First Nations Student Services at Capilano University and Presentation House Gallery (now Polygon), 64 pp
2014
Cut and Muzzled, page-work, The Capilano Review, Spring issue, 3.23, Vancouver, 8 pp
Inspiring, folder, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2013
Steve’s Vinyl, artist book, Emily Carr Press Pile Driver Editions, Vancouver and Visual AIDS, New York, 166 pp
2012
Budget Cuts, folder, Paved Arts/AKA Artist-run Gallery, Saskatoon
(Da bao)(Takeout), catalogue, Shannon Anderson and Doug Lewis, Curators, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON, 96pp
Pickled Art Centre Opening (2008) with Jinkelong, folder,(Da Bao) (Takeout), Varley Art Gallery, Markham
About Face, artist book, Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 96 pp
2011
Parking, folder, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
Every Line & Every Other Line, folder, Kegan McFadden, Director/Curator, Platform Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg
Drive It Like You Stole It, folder, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg
2010
Atrium, folder, Sarah Fillmore with David Diviney, Curators, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Reconcilation/Coincidence, folder, AA Bronson, Curator, Art & Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Giving Notice: Words on Walls, catalogue, Peter Dykhuis, Curator, essay by Jessica Wyman, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
Inspiring, folder, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
SORRY series in Out Loud: Do Your Words Matter? Live Ink module, grade 9 / 10, Pearson Canada Inc, p 60-61
2009
WE ARE SORRY, Artists and Activists pamphlet, Printed Matter, NY; Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 16 pp
No Time to Lose, catalogue, Milena Placentile, Curator, Peacock Centre for the Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 70pp
Journal, page-work, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, vol. 35, Spring/Summer, 2 pp
John Harding, “We Are Very Sorry,” in Site Unseen, Georgia Sedgwick ed., Laneway Commissions, Melbourne, 44 pp
WE ARE SORRY, page-work, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Summer, 3 pp
Beaudette, Berkman, Busby, catalogue, Mary Bradshaw, Director, Yukon Arts Centre Gallery, 16 pp
2008
Your Choice, artist book, #4 in series, edition of 200, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 104 pp
SORRY, artist book, #1 series, 2nd edition of 700, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, with College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 88 pp
Branded, artist book, #3 in series, edition of 300, Render, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 120 pp
2007
Whatever I Like, artist book, #2 in series, edition of 500, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 104 pp
The North End: Volume II, artist book of Halifax posters, edition of 10, Art Metropole, Toronto, 335 pp
2006
The North End: Volume I, artist book of Halifax posters, edition of 10, Emerson Gallery, Berlin, 275 pp
2005
We Have a Situation: Sorry, page work in Image and Inscription, Robert Bean, ed., Gallery 44 / YYZ Books, 232 pp
24/7 at Work, folder, Ingrid Jenkner, Curator / Director, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax
Sorry, artist book, #1 in series, 1st edition / 500, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, 64 pp
2004
Totalled, catalogue, Sandra Dyck, Curator, Studio Watch Series, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 20 pp
2003
“Sorry,” apology mouths, RR 101, publication, Gallery 101, Ottawa
1999
When Pain Strikes, Busby, Sawchuk, Burns eds., an anthology 28 contributors (12 artist projects), Theory Out of Bounds Series, University of Minnesota Press and The Banff Centre for the Arts, 287 pp
"The Lure of Rosanne's Autopathography and Survivor Identity" and "Interview with Kecia Larkin: We Need to Scream to Talk," in When Pain Strikes
SELECTED REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS / ARTICLES
Eugenia Kisin, Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and Material Practice in an Age of Reconciliation, University of Toronto Press, 2024
Mike Grace-Dacosta, “Renowned Artist Unveils Mural at Hazelton First Nations High School,”The Interior News, Dec 20, 2017
Mandeep Wirk, “Act Now on Reconciliation We Call,”Rungh, 2017
Kevin Griffin, “Exhibition recreates ceremony that shamed Ottawa,”Vancouver Sun, B10; also online, Jan 18, 2016
“Garry Kennedy and Cathy Busby’s Top Tabs,” Canadian Art online, Features section, Oct 19, 2015
Christian Ledwell, “Retracing the Past: A Conversation with Cathy Busby,”Visual Arts News online, Halifax, Sept 12, 2015
J.J. Kegan McFadden, “Review of Cathy Busby's Steve's Vinyl,” The Capilano Review, Spring Issue, 2014
Amy Fung, “Artist Cathy Busby in Conversation with Writer Amy Fung,”Visual AIDS Blog, March 2014
John Wisniewski, “Conversations with Artist Cathy Busby,” March 2014
Sydney Hart, “Where Does it Hurt?,” Artspeak, Vancouver, C Magazine, Winter 2013
Michael Turner, “Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools,” Canadian Artonline, Nov 22, 2013
Maurice Switzer, ed, “Big Numbers Hide Huge Failures...,” featuring image of Budget Cuts,Paved Arts/AKA Artist-run Gallery, Saskatoon, in Anishinabek News, Union of Ontario Indians, North Bay, Canada, Oct 2012
Bart Gazzola, "Cate and Cathy,” Oct 4, 2012
"Saskatoon billboard blasts cuts to Aboriginal organizations, " APTN, Sept 24, 2012
Chrysanne Stathacos and Susan Silas, “A Conversation with Cathy Busby,” MOMMY blog, 2012
Ted Kerr, “Beyond the Portrait’s Blank Stare,” Hyperallergic, New York, May 2012
Gavin Browning, “Cathy Busby: About Face,” Domus, Italy, May 2012
Elissa Barnard, “Artist says goodbye with Steve’s Vinyl,”The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Dec 2, 2011
Carmen Klassen, 9-minute live radio interview about Steve’s Vinyl, CBC Close to Home, Halifax, Dec 1, 2011
Phlis McGregor, 7-minute pre-recorded radio interview about Steve’s Vinyl, CBC Information Morning, Halifax, Dec 1, 2011
Allison Saunders, “World AIDS Day: Steve’s Vinyl,”The Coast, Halifax, Dec 1-7, 2011
Lizzy Hill, “Art Underground,” Visual Arts News, Halifax, Fall 2011
Sandee Moore, “Reading Between the Lines,” Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg, March 31, 2011
Sue Carter-Flinn, “Resolving to Resolve,” Visual Arts News, Halifax, Spring 2011
Molly Segal, “Atrium Art, Double Take,”The Commoner, Halifax, Dec 1, 2010
Robert Enright, “Who’s Sorry Now?: Cathy Busby,” Border Crossings magazine, Winter 2010-11
Artists from Nova Scotia: Alex Colville, Maud Lewis, David Askevold, Robert Bean, Fred Allen, Cathy Busby, Jan Peacock, Stjepan Rudic, LLC Books, Memphis, Tennessee, 2010, 32 pp
Holly Gordon, “Visual Art: Cathy Busby’s Giving Notice,” The Coast, Sept 30, 2010
Adam O’Reilly, “Giving Notice: Signs of Change,” Canadian Art, Sept 23, 2010
“United in Going Forward,” in The Healing Journey,Winnipeg Free Press, June 17, 2010
Sheila North-Wilson, on We Are Sorry, Winnipeg Art Gallery, CBC Television Report, June 16, 2010
RAS Creative, “With Apologies,” Aboriginal Focus – Special Feature, The Winnipeg Sun, June 16, 2010
“Words to the Wise,” The Winnipeg Sun, June 16, 2010
Sarah Caufield, “Our Apologies,” Front Magazine, Translation issue, Vancouver, Summer 2010
Robin Laurence, “Artist’s Eye Olympic branding,” The Georgia Straight, Oct 15 – 22, 2009
Tristin Hopper, “All Apologies,” Canadian Art, Oct 2009
Ming Pao Daily News, feature story with installation images, Sept. 20, 2009
Liza Power, “Art in the City,” The Age, Melbourne, Aug. 4, 2009
Jetsetting Joyce, “HOT: We Are Sorry, 620-640 Little Bourke St,” MEL: The Decisive Guide to Melbourne, Aug. 15, 2009
“Cathy Busby, We Are Sorry (2009),” art-public.com, 2009
Tristin Hopper, “Begging Your Pardon,”Yukon News, March 27, 2009
Tara McCarthy, “The Art of Guilt,” What’s Up Yukon, March 26, 2009
Tara McCarthy, CBC radio interview, March 2009
William Sturrock, “Revolutionary Forms and Public Apologies,” July 3, 2008
Sukhpreet Sangha, “UW as the next ‘it’ brand,”Imprint online, University of Waterloo, Feb 2, 2008
Robert Reid, “Branded in Canadian Wall-text Tradition,” The Record, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Jan 26, 2008
Sue Carter-Flinn, “Best piece of Halifax in Toronto,” The Coast, Halifax, Dec 27-Jan 3, 2008
Brad Wheeler, “This Weekend...Cathy Busby,” Globe and Mail, Toronto, Aug 18, 2007
David Jager, “Cathy Busby takes a flyer,” Now weekly, Toronto, Aug 16-22, 2007
Rosemary Heather, “The North End and Two New Wars in Berlin,” Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto, 2006
Sue Carter-Flinn, “Pole Vault: The North End,” The Coast, Halifax, vol. 14, no. 21, Oct 19, 2006
Audrey Nicoll, “Reading an Apology,” Visual Arts News, Halifax, Winter 2006
Elissa Barnard, “Sorry state of affairs,” feature, Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Sept 17, 2005
Artist-to-Artist, interviews with 20 Ottawa artists including: Adrian Göllner, Véronique Couillard, Annie Thibault, Pao Quang Yeh, Stefan St. Laurent, Penny McCann, Carl Stewart, Uta Riccius, Deborah Margo, Farouk Kaspaules, Michèle Provost, The Ottawa Art Gallery, 2003
“I say, come on! Open your eyes!” Ken Lum interview, Review, National Gallery of Canada, 2001
“Escape Fantasies: Survival in the Diefenbunker,” exhibition review, C Magazine, no. 67/68, pp. 24-33, Winter 2000-01
“After Bob Flanagan: An Interview with Sheree Rose,” FUSE Magazine, vol. 21, no. 3, Toronto, 1998
“Self-Help Library,” Tessera Journal, Volume 23, Winter 1997
“Where Does it Hurt?” webcast, Park Bench, New York University, New York, 1996
SELECTED GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2024
BC Arts Council, Visual Artists, Individual Arts Grant
2017
Canada Council, Visual Arts, Project Grant
2012
Canada Council, Visual Arts, Project Grant
Nova Scotia Communities, Culture and Heritage Grant
2011
Nova Scotia Communities, Culture and Heritage Grant
2010
Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award
Canada Council Travel Grant
2009
Nova Scotia Industry Growth Grant
Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage Grant
2008
Outstanding Artist of the Year, Visual Arts Nova Scotia
Canada Council, Visual Arts, Project Grant
Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage Grant
2006
Canada Council, Visual Arts, Project Grant
2004
Ontario Arts Council, Artists Grant
2003
Daimon Production Centre, Research/Creation Grant
Artist’s Production Grant, City of Ottawa
2002
Presentation Scholarship, Die Junge Akademie, Berlin
1997
Critics and Curators Grant, Canada Council
Contemporary Art Fellowship, National Gallery
1995
Fulbright Fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art / Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, New York
Simon Fraser University Library Special Collections and Rare Books, Vancouver
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Nova Scotia Art Bank, Halifax
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
City of Ottawa, Ottawa
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
PRINTED MATTER DISTRIBUTION
Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver, 2024
Art Metropole, Toronto, on-going
READ Books, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, on-going
Printed Matter, New York, on-going
LA Art Book Fair, 2013, 2014
New York Art Book Fair, 2012
Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Cologne; Berlin, 2005-10
UK Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 2013
Mondo, Tromsø, Norway, 2013
Vancouver Art Book Fair 2016
Toronto Art Book Fair 2017