Kathy Moscou

Dr. Kathy Moscou is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design and former Interim Dean and Associate Dean at OCAD University. She has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Toronto and Masters Public Health. Her teaching, research and creative practice merges visual arts, health, and design for social justice. She fosters transformative education that includes co-design of equitable futures to advance access, justice, and sustainability. She was recognized as one of Canada’s 100 Accomplished Black women and received a 2024 Woman Who Inspires Change Award from the Jamaican Canadian Association.

Kathy Moscou’s creative practice is mixed media visual storytelling and explores issues of identity, empowerment, celebrates the Black Cultural aesthetics, family and elder knowledge keepers. Her art has been exhibited in over 30 curated exhibits. Recent interactive installations have engaged the public to reflect on the meaning of truth and reconciliation, the intertwining of colonization and industrialization, reinstating the presence of Black women as integral to our shared national stories, and to contributing to the hidden Black history. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Portugal and Chile.

Selected Exhibitions:
2025. Recordamos, PADA Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2025 Presence of Absence, Port Austin AIR, Port Austin, USA
2025 The People Can Fly, Hologram Gallery, Seattle, USA
2025. Resonance of Resurgence, LLZ, Toronto, OCADU
2024 Erasure!, _Other Tongues, Onsite Gallery, Toronto
2024. Expressions 2024, Mann Gallery, St Catharines
2023 Residency 23°S, La Yareta Gallery, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
2022 Hidden Spaces, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2021 Project 31, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2017 Planting Seeds of Change, Nuit Blanche, Brandon, MB
2017 Annual Members Show, Art Gallery of Southwest Manitoba, Brandon
2010 From the Soul, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2009 Beyond the Rhythm, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2008 Roots to Rhythm, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2004 Legacy, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle
2001 Walden’s Art Gallery, Seattle
2001 24th Annual Minority Art Exhibition, The Urban League of
Metropolitan Seattle (1st Place Award winner)
1997 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
1996 Women and the Arts, Seattle

Selected Refereed Publications:
2025 Moscou, K. (2025) Designing Curriculum with a Difference: The Nguzo Saba as Pedagogy, in Clemente, V., Gomes, G., Reis, M., Félix, S., Ala, S., Jones, D. (eds.), Learn X Design 2025, 22-24 September 2025, Aveiro, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2025.175

2024 Moscou, K., Co-designing for Equity - Undesigning anti-Black racism in the arts in Canada. CoDesign - DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2025.2521513

2024 Moscou, K., Bains, A., Cornwall, K. (2024). Co-designing for Equity: Addressing Anti-Black Racism in the Arts in Canada- A working Paper- Cumulus Monterey conference

Moscou, K., Bains, A., Cornwall, K., Ludlow, B., Oguntuase, M., Christi, J. (2024) Make Some Noise: Hidden Stories of Black Creatives in Canada. A Report for Canadian Heritage

Moscou, K., Onilude, Y., Bhagaloo, A, Zaman, I., Said, A., (2023). Broken Promises: Racism and Access to Medicines. Journal of Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities DOI : 10.1007/s40615-023-01598-2

Moscou, K. (2021). Planting Seeds of Change: Voices of Indigenous Youth. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 12(4)

Wiktorowicz, M., Moscou, K., Lexchin, J. (2018). Transnational pharmacogovernance: the jazz of pharmaceutical policy convergence. Globalization and Health, 14:86

Moscou, K, (2018). Pharmacogovernance and Postmarket Drug Safety in Kenya. In Carine Baxerres, Charlie Marquis. Régulations, Marchés, Santé: interroger les enjeux actuels du médicament en Afrique Actes. Régulations, Marchés, Santé: interroger les enjeux actuels du médicament en Afrique / Regulations, Markets, Health: questioning current stakes of pharmaceuticals in Africa, Mar 2018, Ouidah, Bénin. 2018.

Moscou, K. & Kohler, J.C. (2017). Matching Safety to Access: Pharmacogovernance in Kenya. Globalization and Health, Mar 23;13(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s12992-017-0232-x.

Moscou, K. (2016). Pharmacogovernance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a case study of Brazil and Kenya. Dissertation

Moscou, K, Kohler, JC, McGahan, A. (2016) Governance and pharmacovigilance in Brazil: a scoping review, Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 9(3). doi: 10.1186/s40545-016-0053-y

Moscou, K., Kohler, JC, Lexchin, J. (2013) Drug Safety and Corporate Governance, Global Health Governance, Vol. VII, No.1:56-79

Lexchin, J., Wiktorowicz, M., Moscou, K, Eggertson, L. (2013) Provincial drug plan officials’ views of the Canadian drug safety system, Journal of Health Policy Politics and Law, 38(3): 545-571; doi:10.1215/03616878-2079514

Wiktorowicz, M., Lexchin, J., Moscou, K. (2012) Pharmacovigilance in Europe and North America: Divergent approaches, Soc Sci Med.;75(1):165-70.