Buseje Bailey

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Buseje Bailey
Born
Jamaica
NationalityCanadian
Alma materYork University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Known forVideo artist

Buseje Bailey is a Canadian artist and curator working in video and multi-media whose work explores the construction of the diasporic Black self. Bailey's multidisciplinary work explores themes of the Black diasporic identity and women's history. [1] Her video work is distributed by V tape in Toronto. [2] She was cited as an outstanding Black Canadian artist in a 2018 article published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [3]

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Early life and education

Bailey earned her BFA at York University, Toronto in 1981 and her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1991.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions of Bailey's work have been held at McGill University (Body Politics, 1994) and the Eye Level Gallery, Halifax (Making Connections Across Art Forms, 1995). [4] [5] The Women's Art Resource Centre held an exhibition of her work entitled The Viewing Room in 1999. Her work was also featured in the exhibition Black Body: Race, Resistance, Response, curated by Pamela Edmonds in 2001 at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [6]

Bailey is a co-founder of the Diasporic African Women's Art Collective (DAWA). [7] In 1989, Bailey participated as both a co-curator and an artist in the group exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter , an exhibition organized by DAWA. It was the first exhibition in Canada to focus entirely on the work of Black women artists. [8] [9] The show toured across Canada and has become a foundation for organizing efforts by Black women artists and curators. [10] [11]

Bailey's work was paired with Walter Redinger's in an exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, in 1998. [12]

Bailey was a featured subject in the 2017 exhibition Light Grows the Tree at BAND Gallery (Black Artists' Network in Dialogue) in Toronto, which featured photographic portraits of leading Black Canadian artists, authors, curators and collectors. [13]

Selected videography

Source: [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Douglas, Susan (1990). "When I Breathe There is a Space: An Interview with Buseje Bailey". Canadian Women's Studies. 11 (1): 40.
  2. ↑ "Artist: Buseje Bailey". Vtape . Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Parris, Amanda (18 January 2018). "5 Black Canadian artists whose names should be known alongside the Group of Seven". CBC . Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Making connections across art forms, February 12-March 21, 1994. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Eye Level Gallery. 1995. ISBN   0-9698472-2-X.
  5. ↑ "Women Artists in Canada: Buseje Bailey" . Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  6. ↑ Edmonds, Pamela; Joyette, Anthony; Bailey, Buseje; Chambers, Michael; Chan, Lucie; Clements, Chrystal; Fisk, Rebecca; Gomo, George (2001). Black Body: Race, Resistance, Response. Pamela Edmonds, Pamela Edmonds, Anthony Joyette, Susan Gibson Garvey, Buseje Bailey, Buseje Bailey. Halifax, NS: Dalhousie Art Gallery. ISBN   9780770327361.
  7. ↑ Jim, Alice (1996). "An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 23 (1–2): 71–83. doi: 10.7202/1073294ar . ISSN   0315-9906.
  8. ↑ Brewster, Sandra (2018). "Letters of Negro Progress". In Scott, Kitty (ed.). Theaster Gates: how to build a house museum. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario. pp. 134–135. ISBN   978-1-894243-93-3.
  9. ↑ Ming Wai Jim, Alice (1996). "An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter"". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 23 (1/2): 71–83. doi: 10.7202/1073294ar – via JSTOR.
  10. ↑ Lee, Yaniya. "The Women Running the Show". Canadian Art. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  11. ↑ Adams, Kelsey (4 February 2019). "A hundred Black women and gender-non-conforming artists feasted in the AGO". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  12. ↑ Souvenirs of the unknown: Buseje Bailey, Walter Redinger. London, Ontario: McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario. 1998. ISBN   0771421214.
  13. ↑ "Light Grows the Tree". The Ethnic Aisle. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  14. ↑ "Artist | Vtape". vtape.org. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
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