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'''Buseje Bailey''' is a Canadian artist working in [[Video art|video]] and [[multi-media]] whose work explores the construction of the [[African diaspora|diasporic Black]] self.
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'''Buseje Bailey''' is a Canadian artist and curator working in [[Video art|video]] and [[multi-media]] whose work explores the construction of the [[African diaspora|diasporic Black]] self. Bailey's [[multidisciplinary]] work explores themes of the [[African diaspora|Black diasporic]] identity and [[women's history]].<ref name="douglas">{{cite journal|last1=Douglas|first1=Susan|date=1990|title=When I Breathe There is a Space: An Interview with Buseje Bailey|journal=Canadian Women's Studies|volume=11|issue=1|page=40}}</ref> Her video work is distributed by [[Vtape|V tape]] in Toronto.<ref name="vtape">{{cite web |title=Artist: Buseje Bailey |url=https://vtape.org/artist?ai=302 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318192321/https://vtape.org/artist?ai=302 |archive-date=18 March 2023 |access-date=23 March 2019 |website=[[Vtape]]}}</ref> She was cited as an outstanding Black Canadian artist in a 2018 article published by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref name="parris">{{cite web |last1=Parris |first1=Amanda |date=18 January 2018 |title=5 Black Canadian artists whose names should be known alongside the Group of Seven |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/5-black-canadian-artists-whose-names-should-be-known-alongside-the-group-of-seven-1.4493206 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715100011/https://www.cbc.ca/arts/5-black-canadian-artists-whose-names-should-be-known-alongside-the-group-of-seven-1.4493206 |archive-date=15 July 2023 |access-date=23 March 2019 |website=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==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.
Bailey earned her BFA at [[York University]], Toronto in 1981 and her MFA from the [[Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]] in 1991.

==Work==
Bailey's work explores themes of the Black diasporic identity and women's history.<ref name="douglas">{{cite journal |last1=Douglas |first1=Susan |title=When I Breathe There is a Space: An Interview with Buseje Bailey |journal=Canadian Women's Studies |date=1990 |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=40}}</ref> Her video work is distributed by [[Vtape|V tape]] in Toronto.<ref name="vtape">{{cite web |title=Artist {{!}} Vtape: Buseje Bailey |url=http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=302&_wpnonce=70251d9853 |website=www.vtape.org |accessdate=23 March 2019}}</ref>


==Exhibitions==
==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).<ref name="eyelevel">{{cite book |title=Making connections across art forms, February 12-March 21, 1994 |date=1995 |publisher=Eye Level Gallery |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia |isbn=0-9698472-2-X}}</ref><ref name="CC">{{cite web |title=Women Artists in Canada: Buseje Bailey |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/bubail/bubail_e.htm |accessdate=23 March 2019}}</ref> The [[Women's Art Resource Centre]] held an exhibition of her work entitled ''The Viewing Room'' in 1999.
Solo exhibitions of Bailey's work have been held at [[McGill University]] (''Body Politics'', 1994) and the Eye Level Gallery, [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] (''Making Connections Across Art Forms'', 1995).<ref name="eyelevel">{{cite book |title=Making connections across art forms, February 12-March 21, 1994 |date=1995 |publisher=Eye Level Gallery |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia |isbn=0-9698472-2-X}}</ref><ref name="CC">{{cite web |title=Women Artists in Canada: Buseje Bailey |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/bubail/bubail_e.htm |access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/14747/|title=Black Body: Race, Resistance, Response|last1=Edmonds|first1=Pamela|last2=Joyette|first2=Anthony|last3=Bailey|first3=Buseje|last4=Chambers|first4=Michael|last5=Chan|first5=Lucie|last6=Clements|first6=Chrystal|last7=Fisk|first7=Rebecca|last8=Gomo|first8=George|date=2001|publisher=Dalhousie Art Gallery|others=Pamela Edmonds, Pamela Edmonds, Anthony Joyette, Susan Gibson Garvey, Buseje Bailey, Buseje Bailey|isbn=9780770327361|location=Halifax, NS|language=en}}</ref>


In 1989 Bailey participated as both a co-curator and artist in the group exhibition ''Black Wimmin When and Where We Enter'', the first exhibition in Canada to focus entirely on the work of Black women artists.<ref name=brewster>{{cite book |last1=Brewster |first1=Sandra |editor1-last=Scott |editor1-first=Kitty |title=Theaster Gates : how to build a house museum |date=2018 |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-894243-93-3 |pages=134-135 |chapter=Letters of Negro Progress}}</ref> Her work was paired with Walter Redinger's in an exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, in 1998.<ref name="mcintosh">{{cite book |title=Souvenirs of the unknown : Buseje Bailey, Walter Redinger. |date=1998 |publisher=McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario |location=London, Ontario |isbn=0771421214}}</ref>
Bailey is a co-founder of the [[Diasporic African Women’s Art Collective (DAWA)|Diasporic African Women's Art Collective (DAWA)]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jim |first=Alice |date=1996 |title=An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/racar/1996-v23-n1-2-racar05646/1073294ar/ |journal=RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1-2 |pages=71–83 |doi=10.7202/1073294ar |issn=0315-9906|doi-access=free }}</ref> 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.<ref name=brewster>{{cite book |last1=Brewster |first1=Sandra |editor1-last=Scott |editor1-first=Kitty |title=Theaster Gates: how to build a house museum |date=2018 |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-894243-93-3 |pages=134–135 |chapter=Letters of Negro Progress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ming Wai Jim|first=Alice|date=1996|title=An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter"|journal=RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review|volume=23| issue = 1/2|pages=71–83|doi=10.7202/1073294ar|via=JSTOR|doi-access=free}}</ref> The show toured across Canada and has become a foundation for organizing efforts by Black women artists and curators.<ref name="lee">{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Yaniya |title=The Women Running the Show |url=https://canadianart.ca/features/women-running-show/ |website=Canadian Art |access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="now">{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Kelsey |title=A hundred Black women and gender-non-conforming artists feasted in the AGO |url=https://nowtoronto.com/culture/art-and-design/the-feast-black-wimmin-artist-ago/ |access-date=23 March 2019 |work=NOW Magazine |date=4 February 2019 |language=en-us}}</ref>

Bailey's work was paired with Walter Redinger's in an exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery, [[University of Western Ontario]], in 1998.<ref name="mcintosh">{{cite book |title=Souvenirs of the unknown: Buseje Bailey, Walter Redinger. |date=1998 |publisher=McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario |location=London, Ontario |isbn=0771421214}}</ref>

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.<ref name="light">{{cite web |title=Light Grows the Tree |url=http://www.theethnicaisle.com/the-visual-issue/2017/5/25/light-grows-the-tree |website=The Ethnic Aisle |access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>

== Selected videography ==
Source:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artist {{!}} Vtape |url=https://vtape.org/artist?ai=302 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=vtape.org}}</ref>

* ''Women of Strength, Women of Beauty'' (1992), 16:30 minutes, color, English
* ''Blood'' (1992), 06:00 minutes, color, English with closed captions
* ''Identity in Isolation'' (1995), 16:00 minutes, color, English
* ''Quest For History'' (1998), 23:30 minutes, color, English
* ''Fear Factor'' (2022), 12:00 minutes, color, English


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/bubail/bubail_e.htm Collections Canada: Buseje Bailey]
* [https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/bubail/bubail_e.htm Collections Canada: Buseje Bailey]
* [http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=302 V tape artist page for Buseje Bailey]

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Latest revision as of 18:53, 8 November 2023

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]

Early life and education

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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

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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

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Source:[14]

  • Women of Strength, Women of Beauty (1992), 16:30 minutes, color, English
  • Blood (1992), 06:00 minutes, color, English with closed captions
  • Identity in Isolation (1995), 16:00 minutes, color, English
  • Quest For History (1998), 23:30 minutes, color, English
  • Fear Factor (2022), 12:00 minutes, color, English

References

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  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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