Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary musician, artist and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions and spectral songs, Ryder creates lyrical performances and multi-media installations. Ryder performs with Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram, and with the dark carnival band Dust Bowl Faeries. Ryder is based in the New York Hudson Valley [U.S.A.]
IG FB VideosSHOWS - PROJECTS
Dust Bowl Faeries, Dark Carnival Dream Music
Dust Bowl Faeries websiteGrains of Euphora (music/improv), collaboration w/ Bradford Reed
Grains of Euphora - watchGothic Spaghetti Western 35mm film, collaboration w/Thin Edge Films
Spaghetti Western - watchLa MaMa Galleria, Every Woman Biennial '24
Every Woman BiennialFilm Noir Double Feature music video '24
Film Noir - watchTaboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science '23
TTT ConferenceFEMeeting: Women in Art, Science & Technology '23
FEMeetingCyanide Hotel music video '23
Cyanide Hotel - watchMUSIC/PERFORMANCE Ryder & Dust Bowl Faeries
See DUST BOWL FAERIES website (above) & socials for upcoming shows
Dust Bowl Faeries live on PBS 2024
PBS - watchDust Bowl Faeries/Ryder Cooley Bandcamp (music)
Bandcamp - listenLost in Time, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries
Lost in Time - watchCandy Store, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries
Candy Store - watchZebra, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries
Zebra - watchHazels Eyes: Trapeze by Ryder, song by Dennis Herbert
Hazels Eyes Trapeze - watchXMALIA, Songs of Extinction Illustrated Book
Xmalia bookPRESS
Interview - RadioradioX 2024
Radioradiox InterviewDust Bowl Faeries - Sounds + Shadows Review 2024
Sounds + Shadows ReviewDust Bowl Faeries - Rock N Roll Globe 2023
Rock N Roll Globe reviewDust Bowl Faeries - Rock at Night 2023
Rock at Night reviewRyder Interview - RadioradioX
RadioRadioX interviewDust Bowl Faeries, NPR/WNYC interview
NPR/WNYC interviewDust Bowl Faeries, Vents Magazine review
Vents Magazine reviewDust Bowl Faeries, Rock and Roll Globe review
Rock and Roll Globe reviewDust Bowl Faeries, American Songwriter review
American Songwriter reviewRyder Cooley ACE interview
ACE interviewDust Bowl Faeries, Zebra video review
Zebra review 2019Ryder Cooley interview, Indy Eastend
Indy Eastend interviewLeech House, Hudson Eye Festival
Leech House - Hudson EyeDust Bowl Faeries, album review
Chronogram reviewXMALIA, News Times interview with Ryder
News Times interviewXMALIA, Times Union review
Times Union reviewXMALIA, Posi+tive Magazine interview with Ryder
Posi+tive Magazine interviewXMALIA, All Over Albany review
All Over Albany reviewXMALIA, Nippertown review
Nippertown ReviewNippertown, interview with Ryder
Nippertown reviewARCHIVE
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Gothic Animals, group show, Circle Gallery, Hudson NY 2023
Dust Bowl Faeries Tang Museum, Skidmore College, NY
Sustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of Ethnography, Sweden 2022
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Artist in Residence, Oregon,
Ryder Cooley - SitkaSustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of World Culture, Sweden
Ethics, Excess & Extinction, exhibit, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Dust Bowl Faeries, WAMC The Linda Virtual Concert, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries - WAMCDust Bowl Faeries, Wish You Were Hear Virtual Series, NY
Wish You Were Hear - WatchSeed Song, multi-media seed project with Zoey Kroll
Seed SongBefore Times
Leech House, performance-exhibit, Hudson Eye Fest., NY
Whimsey exhibit, Whitney Center for the Arts, MA
Zebra music video, Coney Island & Orlando Film Festivals
Light into Night, sight-specific performance, Art OMI, NY
Vampire Tango film premiere, Fright Festival, Berlin, Germany
Daughters of Houdini film screening, Joanie 4 Jackie, London
Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Artist Talk, NY
Solo concert, Southampton Art Center, NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Once Ballroom, Boston MA
Ryder & Rasputina, Putnam Place, Saratoga NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Mercury Lounge, NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Johnny Brenda's, PA
Ryder & Rasputina, Rough Trade, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries, Coney Island Baby, NY
Faerie Ball at Racebrook Lodge, MA
Dust Bowl Faeries, Colony Woodstock, NY
Ryder performance/exhibit, Whitney Center, MA
Enigma, exhibit, Catskill Mountain Foundation, NY
DB Faeries Residency, The Church, Mt. Vision NY
Boondocks Film Society, solo performance, NY
Berkshire Museum, solo musical performance, MA
Amnesia-Aisenma, Solo Exhibit, HiLo Gallery, NY
Declaration of Sentiments, exhibit, Athens Cultural Center, NY
CoLab, exhibit, Green County Council for the Arts, NY
Onelovenola Residency/Tour, New Orleans, LA
Dust Bowl Faeries, Steampunk Worlds Fair, NJ
DB Faeries, 0+ Festival, NY
Tear of the Clouds, DB Faeries show, Club Helsinki, NY
NEST MURAL - Etsy Family Room, NY
Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibit, Hyde Collection, NY
VIDEO: Ryder & Melora Creager of RasputinaSecret Slate, Installation, Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries Preservation Hall, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries Illuminated Fest, NY
Blue Mountain Center, Artist Residency, NY
Caffe Lena with Melora Creager, NY
Ghosts of Love music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWDtdlx2K2s&feature
RoadKill, exhibit/concert, Athens Cultural Center, NY
Body as Omen, performance, Ortega Y Gasset Gallery, NY:
http://incidentmag.com/2014/07/18/body-as-omen-witness/
Animalia Animation, Best Animation of New England, Artscope Magazine
Cold Comfort, exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Solo exhibit, Lavender Door Gallery, MA
Aerial performance, La Sala, NY
Circus, exhibit, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
Others, exhibit/musical performance, Loft 594, NY
Ten Spot, exhibit & billboard, Lichtenstein Center, MA
Dark Ryder, exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Blue Mountain Center, Residency, NY
Biophilia Mural, Etsy Office, Cannon Ball Factory, NY
Art OMI, Music Residency, NY
Wild Vines, musical performance, Le Petit Versailles, NY
Streetopia installation, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MASS Art, Performance workshop, Boston, MA:
Paper Quilts exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkley CA
XMALIA performance, MCLA Presents, MA
XMALIA Exhibit & Performance, Silvermine Arts, CT
XMALIA Performance, Proctors Mainstage, NY
Animalia Animation:
Luggage Store Gallery, performance, San Francisco, CA
2nd Floor Projects, Daughters of Houdini exhibit, San Francisco, CA
Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Residency/Performance:
http://watermillcenter.org/events/cooley
Vermont Studio Center Joan Mitchell Fellowship & Residency
Pan American Art Projects, exhibit, Miami FL:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/no-love-for-fidel-6331434
Albany Center Gallery, Installation & Mural
ANIMALIA PERFORMANCES
Los Solos Performance Series, Baltimore, MD
Skybox, Brooklyn, NY