Constance "Colette" Joyce Urban (January 29, 1952 – June 16, 2013) was a Canadian/American artist known for performance art, sculpture and installation.
Her work questioned social conventions, gender roles, and the relationship between spectator and performer, as well as consumer culture and the everyday with a disarming and humorous tone.
[1][2] Urban was a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, until 2006, when she relocated to the Bay of Islands, in Western Newfoundland and based herself in the communities of Meadows and McIvers, Newfoundland, to develop Full Tilt Creative Centre, an artist residency, organic farm and exhibition venue.
Museum London held a retrospective exhibition and published a catalogue raisonné of Urban's work, both titled "Incognito", in October 2013.
[8] The exhibit was curated by Matthew Hills of the Grenfell Art Gallery, and included documentation of her performances, sculpture, and photography.