Cathy Sisler
Cathy Sisler (1956 - 2021) was born in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States. She moved with family to Ontario in 1965. She started writing and playing music in London, Ontario, then moved to Toronto, where she played in bands for ten years and studied painting at the Ontario College of Art & Design. She moved to Montreal in 1992, where she received an MFA from Concordia University and began a career as a video artist, performance artist, writer, and teacher. Her video The Better Me (1995) was acquired for the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in 1998. Cathy worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Western Ontario in London and resided in rural Ontario until the end of her life.
Artist Code: 513
Videography
Lullaby for the Almost Falling Woman
1996, 21:30 minutes, colour, English
1996, 20:00 minutes, colour, English
1995, 20:00 minutes, colour, English
1994, 18:00 minutes, colour, English
1994, 07:00 minutes, colour, English
Aberrant Motion #4 (Face Story, Stagger Stories)
1993, 14:31 minutes, colour, English
1993, 09:36 minutes, colour, English
1993, 10:32 minutes, colour, English
1993, 10:42 minutes, colour, English
Violent Entries in the Life of a Girl: The Strong Silent Type
1992, 08:25 minutes, colour, English
1992, 08:00 minutes, colour, English
1992, 09:48 minutes, colour, English
1992, 09:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 2001.
by . Minneapolis: Walker Art Centre, 2000.
by . Variant, Summer 1999, v. 2, no. 8.
by . Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999.
by and . Kingston: Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, 1997.
by and . Montreal: Cinema Libre.