In 1968, Pusey moved to Paris and had her first solo exhibition in Galerie Louis Soulanges in Paris, France. While living in Paris, Pusey witnessed the 1968 student riots that would inspire many of her works and her most noteworthy print, "Paris Mai Juin" (1968). Pusey returned to the U.S. and her work was featured in a 1971 major group exhibition titled "Contemporary Black Artists in America" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the works from the 1971 exhibit, a large-scale painting "Dejygea" (1970), was among those also included in a 2017 exhibit, "Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today", at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.