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A small square book rests upright at an angle, the spine reads: I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA CATHY BUSBY AM. The cover of the book is white with abstract letter-looking outlines in green painters tape.

I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA (2025)

Halifax Art Book Fair (2025)

Vancouver Art Book Fair (2025)

Lawrence Weiner: Posters (2025)

I WONDER (2021)

SUBSIDIZED! rubber stamp, collaboration with Garry Neill Kennedy, Art Metropole, 2019

SUBSIDIZED stamp, Art Metropole (2019)

ATTITUDES (2017)

thirstDays (2017)

WE CALL (2017)

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE (2016)

Steve’s Sheet Music (2016)

ACQUIRED IN 1964 (2015)

ACQUIRED IN 1964 - silouettes (2015)

INSPIRING is written in bold black sans serif font across the center of a small square card stock folder. The block title asserts itself as a statement while withholding the context in it’s plainness.

INSPIRING (2014)

ENERGY (2013)

STEVE'S VINYL (2013)

WE ARE SORRY (2013)

(DA BAO) (TAKEOUT) (2012)

ABOUT FACE: Portraits at Union Theological Seminary (2012)

BUDGET CUTS (2012)

PICKLED ART CENTRE OPENING (2012)

PARKING GOTTINGEN ST. (2011)

x2 (2011)

ATRIUM (2010)

 INSPIRING is written in bold black sans serif font across the center of a small square card stock folder. The block title asserts itself as a statement while withholding the context in it’s plainness.

INSPIRING (2010)

NO TIME TO LOSE (2010)

RECONCILIATION/COINCIDENCE (2010)

WE ARE SORRY, Artists & Activists 10, Printed Matter, NY + The Truth and Reconciliation of Canada, 2010, 16pp

WE ARE SORRY, Artists and Activists 10 (2010)

BEIJING-VANCOUVER (2009)

WE ARE SORRY (2009)

WE ARE SORRY (2009)

A small square book with multicoloured horizontal stripes in blues, greens and yellows rests on a white background. The word Branded is written in all caps in a black sans serif font in the center of the front cover.

BRANDED (2008)

SORRY (2008)

YOUR CHOICE (2008)

THE NORTH END (2007)

THE NORTH END: Volume II (2007)

Fingers pinch and lift the bound corner of a small sky blue square paper bound book. Whatever I Like is written in the centre in black font in both English and Mandarin Chinese. At the angle the book is being tilted at you see this title is also written down the book’s blue spine after the artist's name: Cathy Busby.

WHATEVER I LIKE (2007)

"We Have a Situation: Sorry" in Image and Inscription: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography (2005)

A collage of brand images and self help books fill the page of a thin pamphlet which rests on a grey background. A black band with grey text reading Cathy Busby 24/7 fills the top of the page, below the title are images of Tylenol Extra Strength tablets, Speed Stick 24/7 deodorant, and toxic waste green Gatorade positioned between various books with titles like Crisis & Renewal, Psychology for Living, and The Challenge of Organizational Change.

24/7 AT WORK (2005)

SORRY (2005)

SORRY (2005)

TOTALLED (2004)

A black and white close up photo of a mouth with tightly pursed lips, perhaps holding back breath or biting back words, takes up the cover of the book. Sorry, Cathy Busby, is written in thick yellow letters near the right bottom corner. The book is bound by black metal ring binding and rests on a grey surface.

SORRY (2003)

SORRY 2002 / 2003 (2003)

“Remaining Viral” in General Idea Editions (2003)

TESTDRIVE (2002)

WHEN PAIN STRIKES (1999)

“Where Does It Hurt?" in Tessera Journal (1997)

YOUR GUIDE TO...WHERE DOES IT HURT? (1996)

“Grief: Dad’s Books” in Time Capsule: Women Artists (1995)

A black page of the left holds a column of white text separated with white horizontal lines, it reads: FACT OR FICTION: Robert Bean, Barbara Badessi, Bruce Johnson, Maureen Donnelly, Susan McEachern, David Middleton, Charlie Murphy, Geri Nolan. A white page on the right repeats this format with grey blocks, adding: Some points of view in contemporary Nova Scotian photography. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 3 March - 3 June, 1990. Cathy Busby, Guest Curator.

FACT OR FICTION (1990)

SO TO SPEAK (1988)

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