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.]

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SHOWS - PROJECTS

Dust Bowl Faeries, Dark Carnival Dream Music

Dust Bowl Faeries website

Grains of Euphora (music/improv), collaboration w/ Bradford Reed

Grains of Euphora - watch

Gothic Spaghetti Western 35mm film, collaboration w/Thin Edge Films

Spaghetti Western - watch

La MaMa Galleria, Every Woman Biennial '24

Every Woman Biennial

Film Noir Double Feature music video '24

Film Noir - watch

Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science '23

TTT Conference

FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science & Technology '23

FEMeeting

Cyanide Hotel music video '23

Cyanide Hotel - watch

MUSIC/PERFORMANCE Ryder & Dust Bowl Faeries

See DUST BOWL FAERIES website (above) & socials for upcoming shows

Dust Bowl Faeries live on PBS 2024

PBS - watch

Dust Bowl Faeries/Ryder Cooley Bandcamp (music)

Bandcamp - listen

Lost in Time, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries

Lost in Time - watch

Candy Store, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries

Candy Store - watch

Zebra, video by Thin Edge Films feat. Dust Bowl Faeries

Zebra - watch

Hazels Eyes: Trapeze by Ryder, song by Dennis Herbert

Hazels Eyes Trapeze - watch

XMALIA, Songs of Extinction Illustrated Book

Xmalia book

PRESS

Interview - RadioradioX 2024

Radioradiox Interview

Dust Bowl Faeries - Sounds + Shadows Review 2024

Sounds + Shadows Review

Dust Bowl Faeries - Rock N Roll Globe 2023

Rock N Roll Globe review

Dust Bowl Faeries - Rock at Night 2023

Rock at Night review

Ryder Interview - RadioradioX

RadioRadioX interview

Dust Bowl Faeries, NPR/WNYC interview

NPR/WNYC interview

Dust Bowl Faeries, Vents Magazine review

Vents Magazine review

Dust Bowl Faeries, Rock and Roll Globe review

Rock and Roll Globe review

Dust Bowl Faeries, American Songwriter review

American Songwriter review

Ryder Cooley ACE interview

ACE interview

Dust Bowl Faeries, Zebra video review

Zebra review 2019

Ryder Cooley interview, Indy Eastend

Indy Eastend interview

Leech House, Hudson Eye Festival

Leech House - Hudson Eye

Dust Bowl Faeries, album review

Chronogram review

XMALIA, News Times interview with Ryder

News Times interview

XMALIA, Times Union review

Times Union review

XMALIA, Posi+tive Magazine interview with Ryder

Posi+tive Magazine interview

XMALIA, All Over Albany review

All Over Albany review

XMALIA, Nippertown review

Nippertown Review

Nippertown, interview with Ryder

Nippertown review

ARCHIVE

2 0 2 0 - 2 0 2 4

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 - Sitka

Sustainable 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 - WAMC

Dust Bowl Faeries, Wish You Were Hear Virtual Series, NY

Wish You Were Hear - Watch

Seed Song, multi-media seed project with Zoey Kroll

Seed Song

Before 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 Rasputina

Secret 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:

http://vimeo.com/36739915

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:

http://www.vimeo.com/19738863

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

Contact rydercooley@gmail.com

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