Buddy Foley

Hubert Tibbles "Buddy" Foley (born 1945) is an American artist, musician, and video documentarist. He lives in Seattle.

Born in Vancouver, Washington, he graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Washington and also studied jazz at Cornish College of the Arts. His neon art, including a 1987 show taking up all of the showcase windows of the Downtown Seattle flagship store of The Bon Marché briefly earned him the nickname of Seattle's "neon king". For 20 years he lived in a converted gas station on 15th Avenue West, slightly north of the Magnolia Bridge in Seattle's Interbay neighborhood, where he became known for selling ladybugs. After a reprieve from eviction in 2005, he was evicted in 2007 when the building was razed.