Laura Bucci is an Italian Canadian artist whose work focuses on the quality of daily interhuman relations. She examines and contemplates the challenges we experience in relating to others in diverse environments and in particular in Canadian culture. This motivates her to devise ways to gather people in everyday spaces as much as possible.

Her work has unfolded in galleries, cafes, online, on the street, in nature, in a shopkeepers’ store, and in the home. It is typically shaped through informal interviews, unstructured and facilitated group conversations, interventions, service-oriented acts, and skill share gatherings. Most recently, she hosted her research in her home to inquire with others how cooking and eating collaborations can bring diverse locals and newcomers together to meaningfully engage through dialogue.

She has shown and performed projects in British Columbia and Nova Scotia including at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Wonder’neath Art Society, Eyelevel Artist Run Centre, Every One Every Day, Club Inclusion, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Access Gallery, The Hatch, Library Window Gallery (ECUAD), Dynamo Arts Association, and others. Laura was born in Toronto and grew up in Italy and Malta. She lived in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory for about forty years and now lives in Kijpuktuk (Halifax) on Mi’kmaw territory in Nova Scotia. She holds a BFA (1992) and an MA in Art Education (2025) from NSCAD University.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

MAAE Candidate (Master of Art in Art Education), NSCAD, Halifax, 2025
Art Education Courses, UBC, Vancouver, 2013
Art for Social Change with Drs. Judith Marcuse and Lynn Fels, SFU, Vancouver, 2012
BFA, NSCAD, Halifax, 1992

Exhibitions, Projects, Curatorial

Surface Tensions, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2024
Propositioning the Self with Experiments in Noticing, Wonder’neath Art Society, Halifax, 2024
ERI 10: You’ve Got Mail, Eyelevel Artist Run Centre, Halifax, 2023
The Pasta Project (ongoing), various locations and formats, NS, 2023
Community of Practice: Create/Activate/Extend, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2023
Research Notes: Loneliness and belonging through the eye of an artist, a weekly newsletter of essays, interviews, and audio recordings, Vancouver, 2021–2022
Fraser River Walks, Paneficio/AMP Studio Window Gallery, Vancouver (solo), 2021
Fraser River Walks—Group Walk, creative activity, and conversations along the Fraser River, Vancouver, 2021
Measures of Absence, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS, 2021
Members’ Show, Access Gallery, Vancouver, 2020
Together: Communities of Healing, The Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2020
inter.action, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS (duo), 2019
Eudaimonia, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo), 2019
Book Matters, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS, 2018
Directions for the Mind, Parking Spot Projects, Vancouver (solo), 2017
Cultivate a Spot, Library Window Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver (solo), 2016
Cultivate a Spot, foyer of Studio 1398, Vancouver (solo), 2016
Not Sent Letters & Guests, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, 2016
Cultivate a Spot, an intervention at a telephone booth, documentation produced in the form of mail art postcards and a publication (see line below), Vancouver, 2016
A study in community interactions, self-published publication, Vancouver Art/Book Fair and the Friendly Book Fair, ECUAD, Vancouver, 2016
Health Information Bulletin: 2010HLS0035-000768, poster intervention at three medical clinics in East Vancouver, Vancouver, 2015
Cause & Effect, zine series, Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver
#sthgotherthanaselfie, Instagram intervention March 9-15, 2014
Memory, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, 2013
The Minimum Wage, temporary installations of a craftivist project at public spaces in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, Vancouver, 2013
This is where I go, international themed mail art exhibit, Britannia Art Gallery, Vanc. (role: curator), 2013
Here Today, Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver (duo), 2012
Today and Tomorrow, Art Association of Bad Aibling, Bad Aibling, Germany, 2012
Mayworks, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, 2012
Culture Crawl at the PNE, Vancouver, 2010
Fix, Stoodeo Gallery, Vancouver, 1999
Architecture Now and Then, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, 1996
The Body, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, 1995
Full Frame, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, 1994
Nothing Personal, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo), 1992

Awards & Residencies

Dalglish Family Foundation Bursary, NSCAD, 2024
Travel Subsidy Grant, NSCAD, 2023
Bursary, Dalhousie University, 2023
Entrance Scholarship, NSCAD, 2022
Entrance Scholarship, ECUAD, 2020
Residency, Alchemy, Hillier, Ontario (devoted to exploring the synergy between artistic practice and the cooking and sharing of locally grown food in a community setting), 2019   
Scholarship, BC Ministry of Education and Culture, 1991

Presentations, Artist Talks, Invitations

Guest artist for the MFA Forum. I co-hosted an informal conversation about Critique as Gift, with artist Katherine Rae Diemert, NSCAD, Halifax, 2024

Bucci, L. (2024, June 27-30). Curating Togetherness in Pedagogical Events and Social Practice [Graduate Symposium]; Critique as Gift [Workshop Presentation]. Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Bucci, L. (2023, March 23-25). Teach anything and community mapping. In Building togetherness and reciprocity as quiet resistance [Symposium]. 10th Biannual Provoking Curriculum Conference, London, ON, Canada.

Fraser River Projects, an online collaborative presentation with artist Laurance Playford-Beaudet, CARFAC BC, 2021
Measures of Absence, artist talk, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia

inter.action, artist talk, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS, 2019

Cultivate a Spot, artist talk, Studio 1398, Vancouver, 2016

The Language of Art, Pecha Kucha Richmond Vol.2, organized by Richmond Art Gallery, Cinevolution’s Your Kontinent Media Arts & Film Festival and Richmond Public Art, Richmond, 2013

Press

Brimicombe, H. (2019, March 6). Artist connects the yarns of conversation. The Advocate.
Smith, J. (2010, Nov 25).  Five cool Crawl finds to tempt Wanderers. The Georgia Straight. 50.
Smith, J. (2010, Nov 9). Look out for Laura Bucci at the East Side Culture Crawl. Scout Magazine. https://scoutmagazine.ca/look-out-for-laura-bucci-during-the-east-side-culture-crawl/

Published Artwork & Art-related Writing

Bucci, L. & Diemert, K. (2025). Critique as gift. Canadian Art Teacher, 21.1
Bucci, L. (2015). Laura Bucci. In D. DeVries Sokol (Ed.), A world of artist journal pages (pp. 38–39). Stewart, Tabori, & Chang.
Bucci, L. (2007, March/April). Casting on, doing good (in Arts & Idea: Activism). This Magazine, 39.
Bucci, L. (2007, June/July/Aug). Member profile – Ron Bazar (interview). Craft Contacts. 1.
Bucci, L. (2007, Spring). Wild fire: Art as activism (book review). Herizons. 47.
Bucci, L. (2006, Fall/Winter). Whatcha mean, what’s a zine? (book review). Shameless Magazine. 44.
Bucci, L. (1999, Summer). Andrew Bell – Motorwerks 3: Sinister refinements (exhibition review). Artichoke: Writings About the Visual Arts. 50-51.

Professional Service

Grant Writer for artists and arts organizations, 2014 to present

Research Assistant, Flaxmobile Project, NSCAD, Halifax, 2023 to present

Board Member, Fundraising, Outsiders & Others Arts Society, Vancouver

Programming, Membership & Communications Coordinator, CARFAC BC, Vancouver, 2022

Coordinator & Facilitator of CARFAC BC’s Program Zoom Coffee Break Conversations, BC, 2021

Online Teaching Assistant, Foundation Interdisciplinary Studies Course, ECUAD, Vancouver, 2020

Selection Committee Member, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, ECUAD, Vancouver, 2020

Juror, Richmond Public Art Program, Richmond, 2016

Organizing Member for Emily Carr University students & alumni participation at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver, 2016

Workshop instructor (from 2010) in cross-stitching, craftivism, mail art, collage, image transfer techniques, and drawing: Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver Draw Down, Britannia Community Centre, West Point Gray Academy, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Artful Sundays, Stone Soup Festival, The Word On The Street, Joy Kogawa House. 2010 to 2014

Arts & Culture Committee Member, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver, 2009–2013

Project Assistant & Selection Committee Member for a micro-fund, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver, 2009–2013