CURRENTLY AND UPCOMING
PARKING, collaboration with Feedback Loop, Vancouver, Mar - May, 2024
STAND LAND PROTECTORS; STAND WATER PROTECTORS, ceramic platters, in Raiders Raid, Greg Elgstrand, curator, Bohart, Port Moody, BC
I WONDER, outdoor wall-text painting, Other Sights, Vancouver, pending
Prop House, group exhibition Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, May 19 - Aug 25, 2024
WE CALL in Conciliations, book, Tarah Hogue, Jennifer Robinson eds.
WE ARE SORRY in Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and Material Practice in an Age of Reconciliation, author Eugenia Kisin, upcoming University of Toronto Press, 2024
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / PROJECTS
2024
HORIZONS, project of Garry Neill Kennedy (1935-2021), realized collaboratively with curator Mandy Ginson, Vancouver Art Gallery
2023
ON QUE IN PANTONE COLOURS OF THE YEAR, permanent installation, Lobby, On Que, Quebec St, Vancouver, BC
2021
I WONDER, wall-text painting, permanent installation, Art Metropole, Toronto
2019
Stand Land Protectors; Stand Water Protectors, two ceramic platters curated by Kate Bellringer in exhibition at Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, BC
We Call, Teck Gallery, SFU reproduction in Women Deliver Cities curated by Germaine Koh, Vancouver Public Library, main branch, Vancouver
Subsidized in Public Volumes, Noa Bronstein, curator, Small Arms Inspection Building, City of Mississauga
Parking, a madrigal choral composition / performance with lyrics from makes and models of parked cars in UBC's West Parkade, composed by Earle Peach, performance AHVA Faculty Exhibition, UBC, Vancouver
2018
We Call, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
We Call, installation, first Lind Family Artist-in-Residence at Upper Canada College, Toronto
Anna Leonowens was a Suffragist, re-issue of 1985 t-shirt edition for Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
We Call, in I Continue to Shape, Cheyanne Turions, curator, Art Museum, University of Toronto,
We Call, permanent installation, 1st Lind Familly Artist-in-Residence, Upper Canada College, Toronto
2017
We Call, installation, Gitksan Wet’suwet’en Education Society (GWES), Hazelton, BC, Dec 2017 on-going
Intertribal Lifelines, performance collaboration with Charlene Vickers, Sound Thinking conference, Surrey Art Gallery
Intertribal Lifelines, installation, collaboration with Charlene Vickers, Ground Signals, Surrey Art Gallery
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal at Robert Maki Curve/Diagonal, collaboration with Charlene Vickers in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA https://cfpa.wwu.edu/event/action-performance-festival
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, (Oct)
2016
Hands Across the Sky, performance with Charlene Vickers; curated with Dima Alansari, Thirst Daysseries, Jayce Salloum, initiator, VIVO, Vancouver
We Are Sorry, floor panel in Lalakenis, Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver
2014
Acquired in 1964, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, solo exhibition
Inspiring in Outcomes, faculty exhibition, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver
We Are Sorry 2013in First Nations caravan, Bella Bella, BC to Ottawa, Awalaskenis II - Journey of Truth and Unity Sorry Politicians, Emerson Gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition
Self-Help Library in Where Does It Hurt?, Artspeak, Vancouver
Budget Cuts inThis for That, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
Pickled Art Centre Opening (2008) with Jinkelong in (Da Bao) (Takeout), Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2013
Steve’s Vinyl, book launches, Dec 1 in conjunction with World AIDS Day, Printer Matter, New York; Dec 15, Halifax
We Are Sorry 2013, 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 books in Libro, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2012
Budget Cuts, billboard and Sorry, large-scale inkjet prints in Every Line & Every Other Line at Paved Arts/AKA Artist-run Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
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, Canada; travel to Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, Canada 2012; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, 2013; Surrey Art Gallery, Canada, 2014
2011
Steve’s Vinyl, installation and performance, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax
Parking, installation, inx2, Eyelevelgallery, Halifax
Boldstep Half-Life, collaboration with Barbara Lounder, sound installation in Debert Bunker exhibition, Debert, CanadaDrive It Like You Stole It, window-text painting andSorry, large-scale inkjet prints inEvery 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 inGiving 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 inSafe Façade, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver
2009
Taken, photo installation, Red Gate Residency Gallery, Beijing
Beijing Cube installation, Beijing-Vancouver, Centre A, Vancouver
Sorry, large-scale inkjet prints with We Are Sorry wall, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
We Are Sorry, large-scale site-specific installation, Laneway Commissions, Melbourne, Australia, July 2009 – Feb 2013
2008
Your Choice, installation, two large-format vinyl photo works and small-format 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, Aberdeen Business School Library inNo Time to Lose,Peacock Centre for the Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland
Branded, wall-text painting and small-format book, Render, formerly University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada
2007
Whatever I Like, installation, wall-text painting and small-format book, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
The North End, installation and artist book, Art Metropole, Toronto
2006
The North End, installation and artist book, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
2005
24/7 at Work, installation, Window Box Series, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax
Sorry, large-scale inkjet prints, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
Sorry,large-scale inkjet prints, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax
2004
Totalled, wall-text painting installation, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
24/7, large-scale print in members’ show, Eyelevelgallery, Halifax 2002Testdrive, 3-part installation, Eyelevelgallery, Halifax
2001
How..., multiple-print installation, Gallery 101, Ottawa
TEACHING
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, 3rdand 4thyear 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; 1994 “Film Analysis: Canadian Film,” NSCAD, Halifax, 1989
EDUCATION
1999
PhD Communication, Concordia University, Montreal
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) liason to Public Art Committee, City of Vancouver
2017
Member, Public Art Committee, City of Vancouver to present
2016
Discursive Projects, presentation, “Power in the Darkness” OR Gallery, Vancouver, https://vimeo.com/160310703
2013-16
Adjunct Professor / Artist-in-residence with teaching responsibilities, UBC, Vancouver
2014
Key-note speaker, awards event,Creative Challenge, University of the Creative Arts, London, UK
2016
Discursive Projects, presentation, “Power in the Darkness” OR Gallery, Vancouver, https://vimeo.com/160310703
2013
Artist’s Talks: Belkin Art Gallery, UBC; Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK; OR Gallery, Berlin
2012-13
Artist-in-residence, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Fall / Winter 2013. See also: Teaching
2012
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
2011
Visiting Artist,West Broadway Poster Projectweek-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
2010-11
Mentor, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax
2009-10
Artist-in-residence, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
2009
Assessment Committee Member, Shanghai Expo 2010, Canada Council
2007-10
Artist-in-Residence, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, September-October 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010
2006-11
Chair of Board/Board Member, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax
2006
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
2002-04
Head of Public Programs, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2001-04
Board Member / Chair, Programming Committee, SAW Gallery, Ottawa,
2001
Curator,Bulldozer: 15 Yukon Artists / 15 artistes du Yukon, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, http://artengine.ca/bulldozer/
2000
Consultant / co-author,Developing an Arts Scene: Art Education in the Yukon, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
1998-02
Senior Researcher/Writer, Education and Public Programs, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1997-98
Contemporary Art Researcher, National Gallery of Canada, Artists’ Books in the Art Metropole Collection, Ottawa
1995-96
Visiting Researcher, Fulbright Scholar, New York University, New York City
1994
Assessment Committee Member, Operating Assistance to Media Arts organizations, Canada Council
1988-89
Director/Curator,Lifesize: Women and Film, National Film Board, Telefilm Canada, Halifax
1985-88
Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax
BOOKS / FOLDERS / CATALOGUES / PAGEWORKS
2017
thirstDays, Love, intimacy and (com)passion in a geopolitical context, contributor, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
2016
Making the Invisible Visible, interviewer/editor, conversations with five artists, University of the Creative Arts,
Canterbury, Kent, UK, 88 pp. https://issuu.com/mtiv/docs/making_the_invisible_visible
Taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action, pagework, C Magazine, Winter Issue 128, 2 pp 2015Acquired in 1964, artist book / catalogue, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 60 pp
Journeysin Weaving Histories, Sydney Hart and Clay Little, eds, First Nations Student Services at Capilano University and Presentation House Gallery, 64 pp
2014
Cut and Muzzled, pagework,The Capilano Review, Spring issue, 3.23, Vancouver, 8 pp
Inspiring, folder, UBC, 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, Canada
(Da bao)(Takeout),catalogue, Shannon Anderson and Doug Lewis, Curators, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Canada
About Face, artist book, Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 96 pp
Pickled Art Centre Opening (2008) with Jinkelong, folder,(Da Bao) (Takeout), Markham, Canada
2011
Parking,folder, Eyelevelgallery, Halifax
Every Line & Every Other Line,folder, J.J. 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 Jessica Wyman, Dalhousie Art Gallery, HalifaxInspiring, folder, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
Sorryseries inOut Loud: Do Your Words Matter?Live Ink module, grade 9 / 10, Pearson Canada Inc, p 60-61 http://www.pearsonschoolcanada.ca/media/canada/liveink_ataglance.pdf
2009
We Are Sorry,Artists and Activistspamphlet, 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
Journal,pagework, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, vol. 35, Spring/Summer, 2 pp
John Harding, “We Are Very Sorry,” inSite Unseen, Georgia Sedgwick, ed, Laneway Commissions, Melbourne, 44 pp
We Are Sorry, pagework, 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, signed, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 104 pp
Sorry, artist book, first in 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 inImage 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, 1stedition / 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, 2004
1999
Co-Editor, author,When Pain Strikes, Busby, Sawchuk, Burns, eds, an anthology 28 contributors (12 artist projects),
Theory Out of BoundsSeries, University of Minnesota Press and The Banff Centre for the Arts, 287 pp
SELECTED REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS
Mike Grace-Dacosta, “Renowned Artist Unveils Mural at Hazelton First Nations High School,”The Interior News, Dec 20, 2017, https://www.interior-news.com/entertainment/renowned-artist-unveils-mural-at-hazelton-first-nations-high-school/
Mandeep Wirk, “Act Now on Reconciliation We Call,”Rungh, http://rungh.org/act-now-on-reconciliation/
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 Artonline, Features section, Oct 19, 2015
Christian Ledwell, “Retracing the Past: A Conversation with Cathy Busby,”Visual Arts Newsonline, Halifax, Sept 12, 2015
J.J. Kegan McFadden, “Review of Cathy Busby'sSteve's Vinyl,” The Capilano Review, Spring Issue, 2014
“Artist Cathy Busby in Conversation with Writer Amy Fung,”Visual AIDS Blog, March 2014 John Wisniewski, “Conversations with Artist Cathy Busby,” March 2014 http://theeyeoffaith.com/2014/03/14/conversations-with-artist-cathy-busby/
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 ofBudget Cuts,Paved Arts/AKA Artist-run Gallery, Saskatoon, inAnishinabek News, Union of Ontario Indians, North Bay, Canada, Oct 2012
Bart Gazzola, "Cate and Cathy,” Oct 4, 2012 http://www.planetsmag.com/story.php?id=973
"Saskatoon billboard blasts cuts to Aboriginal organizations, " APTN, Sept 24, 2012 http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/09/24/saskatoon-billboard-blasts-cuts-to-aboriginal-organizations/
Chrysanne Stathacos and Susan Silas, MOMMY blog, “A Conversation with Cathy Busby,” http://www.mommybysilasandstathacos.com/2012/08/17/a-conversation-with-cathy-busby/
Ted Kerr, “Beyond the Portrait’s Blank Stare,”Hyperallergic, New York, May 2012 http://hyperallergic.com/51997/cathy-busby-about-face-portraits-at-union-theological-seminary/
Gavin Browning, “Cathy Busby: About Face,”Domus, Italy, May 2012 http://www.domusweb.it/en/interview/cathy-busby-about-face/
Elissa Barnard, “Artist says goodbye withSteve’s Vinyl,”The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Dec. 2, 2011
Carmen Klassen, 9-minute live radio interview aboutSteve’s Vinyl, CBCClose to Home, Halifax, Dec. 1, 2011
Phlis McGregor, 7-minute pre-recorded radio interview aboutSteve’s Vinyl, CBCInformation 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 http://thecommoner.kingsjournalism.com/?p=4855
Robert Enright, “Who’s Sorry Now?: Cathy Busby,”Border Crossingsmagazine, 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
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/fall-arts-preview-giving-notice/Content?oid=1901189
Adam O’Reilly, “Giving Notice: Signs of Change,”Canadian Art, Sept. 23, 2010 http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2010/09/23/giving_notice/
“United in Going Forward”, in The Healing Journey,Winnipeg Free Press, June 17, 2010
Sheila North-Wilson, onWe Are Sorry, Winnipeg Art Gallery, CBC Television Report, June 16, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/Manitoba/ID=1523653648
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 http://www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2009/10/15/cathy-busby/
Ming Pao Daily News, feature story with installation images, Sept. 20, 2009, p D1
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 http://www.melhotornot.com/hot-620640-bourke-st-melbourne/
art-public.com newsletter, “Cathy Busby, We Are Sorry (2009)” http://www.sigap.net/mag-en/index.php3?num=8230&pht=1
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 http://blog.bos2008.com/2008/07/03
Sukhpreet Sangha, “UW as the next ‘it’ brand,”Imprintonline, 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
SELECTED GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
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
Winnipeg Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada
Carleton University Art Gallery
Nova Scotia Art Bank
Art Bank, Canada Council
City of Ottawa
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
PRINTED MATTER DISTRIBUTION
Art Metropole, Toronto
READ Books, Emily Carr University, Vancouver Printed Matter, New York
The Gallery Shop, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax LA Art Book Fair, 2013, 2014
New York Art Book Fair, 2012, and intermittently Buchandlung Walther König, Köln; Berlin
Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 2013
Mondo, Tromsø, Norway
Vancouver Art Book Fair annually Toronto Art Book Fair 2017