Jane Buyers

Jane Buyers (born 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist who evokes the human presence and its impulse to manipulate through drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Her investigation and practice has a formal and thematic substance. Themes that have always preoccupied Buyers include books, labour and the domestic ritual. She is based in Elora, Ontario.

Career After getting her honours B.A. in Visual Art from York University (1973) and a Master of Education in History and Philosophy from the University of Toronto (1990), Buyers taught fine art at institutions in the Toronto region, was a Fine Art instructor at Fanshawe College, London, for seven years and Professor in the Fine Arts department at the University of Waterloo from 1988 to 2010, where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita.

Buyers has had over forty solo exhibitions and participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions. Her recent group exhibitions include Into the Woods at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo (2006); Pictured: Image and Object in Canadian Sculpture, and Making Space, both Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2007-2008 and 2021).

She has given many public lectures. In 2020, she spoke at the 2020 Wild Writers Literary Festival on Aging and Creativity.

Buyers was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002. She has been awarded a number of Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Guelph; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Museum London; and the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.