Ana Busto is a Spanish video artist who was born in Bilbao, Spain. She studied journalism at the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. She has worked with video, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance. Her work focuses on the different aspects of the body: physical, territorial, and politic in the context of Western culture. Past work includes an examination of North American boxing through photography and installation elements such as mirrors and rocking chairs — in “Night Flight” (Barcelona, 1999), “Playa Girón” (Valencia, 2001), and “La Escuela Cubana de Boxeo” (The Cuban School of Boxing, 2001) — and visceral commentary through sculpture and large-scale painting in “Torched and Scorched” (New York, 2015). Busto divides her time between Spain and New York.
Ana Busto
Studios
New Hampshire
Ana Busto worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…