Línea [Line] (2025)
Artist’s book. Plotter photographs on paper (from analogue negatives)
21,5 x 500 cm
BA Collection
Registration No.: 2025.625.1
These pieces reflect Busto’s work on visual memory and mapping the construction of her identity as an artist. This map has two geographical points of interest: the Basque Country (Igorre, Galdakao, Basauri), where the artist’s initial identity was formed, and the city of New York where she moved to in 1980. Past and present merge and take shape in different artistic practice, integrating visual references from their previous works into their new proposals.
Ana Busto (Igorre, 1952) studied Information Sciences at the Faculty of Bellaterra, Barcelona, where she began engaging with the city’s artistic circles. In the early 1980s, she moved to New York, where she developed her career as a photographer. Her training was enriched by experiences in both Spain and the United States, earning recognitions such as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1990) and the Spanish Ministry of Culture grant (1997). She currently lives between Spain and New York. Busto’s artistic practice centers on photography, exploring themes like boxing and Paralympic athletes. Her work blends a documentary approach with a conceptual dimension, questioning the social, political, and emotional dynamics of her subjects.
Busto combines photography with performative interventions, such as live boxing matches integrated into her exhibitions, fostering dialogues between art and experience. Since 1985, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, primarily in New York, including Counter-Representations (Brooklyn Museum, 1988), Urban Narrative-Evil Empires (Aljira, Newark, 1991), and Square Circle (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003). In Spain, she stood out in Territorios Indefinidos (Alicante, 1995) and El cuerpo…espacio de códigos (Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2006). Her solo exhibitions include Cibachrome Photographs (The Midtown and Photographic Gallery, 1985), Night Fights (Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, and Galería Metrónom, Barcelona, 2000), which featured a live boxing match, and La Escuela Cubana de Boxeo (Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, 2001). Other notable projects include Boxeadores cubanos (Tribes Gallery, New York, 2002) and The Punch and Verse (Bowery Poetry Club, New York, 2005-2006). Her work with Paralympic athletes began in 2001, gaining prominence in exhibitions like Sport and Ability (Shafallah Forum, Doha, 2007-2008).