Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions with songs and projected imagery, she creates cinematic music and drawing-installations. Ryder performs with Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram, and with the music group Dust Bowl Faeries. She is based in the New York Hudson Valley [U.S.A.]
Video Page2018 SHOWS - PROJECTS - EVENTS - PRESS
Ethics, Excess & Extinction, group exhibit, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas. Jan 28-May13, 2018
DUST BOWL FAERIES, dark carnival music:
Dust Bowl Faeries 2018 Remix EP and New WebsiteDBF, Steampunk Worlds Faire, NJ, March 2018 (details to come)
SEED SONG - multi-media seed project, collaboration with Zoey Kroll http://edibleoffice.wixsite.com/animaliaseeds
Dennis Herbert ~ Album & Illustrated Book, collaboration, coming soon!
PRESS:
Dust Bowl Faeries Album
Chronogram Review
Newstimes interview
Interview
XMALIA Times Union Review
T.U. Review
POSI+TIVE Magazine
Review
All Over Albany
Review
Nippertown Review
T.U. Review
Nippertown interview
T.U. Interview
Interview with Jasmine Dreame Wagner
T.U. Interview
RECENT/PREVIOUS EVENTS-HIGHLIGHTS
2018 HIGHLIGHTS: DBF Remix EP Release, Jan 2018, Helsinki Ballroom, Hudson NY
2017 HIGHLIGHTS: Whimsy, group exhibit, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
A Declaration of Sentiments: group exhibit, Athens Cultural Center, Athens NY
CoLab, Installation/group exhiibit, Green county Council for the Arts, Catskill NY
Amnesia-Aisenma, Solo Exhibit, HiLo Gallery, Catskill NY
DREAM ALIBIS - book by JoAnn Stevelos, illustrations by Ryder Cooley, available on amazon.com
DUST BOWL FAERIES 2017 Highlights: Onelovenola Music Residency & Tour, New Orleans, LA Steampunk Worlds Fair, NJ 0+ Festival, Pougkeepsie NY Woodstock on the Green, Woodstock NY Tear of the Clouds, Music/Performance with Luis Mojica, Club Helsinki, Hudson NY
2016 HIGHLIGHTS: NEST MURAL - Etsy Family Room, Hudson NY 2016 (see public art page for images)
Mohawk Hudson Juried Regional Exhibit, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY,
VIDEO: Ryder & Melora Creager of RasputinaSecret Slate, Installation, Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show, NY
DUST BOWL FAERIES 2016 Highlights (dark carnival music): Debut Album Release, Club Helsinki, Hudson NY O+ Festival, BSP Mainstage, Kingston NY Tang Museum Rooftop Series, Skidmore College, Saratoga NY Preservation Hall, Saratoga NY Illuminated Festival, Newburg NY
2015 HIGHLIGHTS: Drawing installation & music performance, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield MA.
Blue Mountain Center, Artist in Residence, Adirondacks, NY
Platte Clove Nature Theater, a musical odyssey by Ryder Cooley, Fredo Viola and Luis Mojica. video: https://vimeo.com/131329854
Dust Bowl Faeries 2015 highlights (dark carnival music): Caffe Lena, double bill with Melora Creager (Rasputina), Saratoga NY
MoonRyder Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWDtdlx2K2s&feature
2014 HIGHLIGHTS: Road Kill, group exhibit & Dust Bowl Faeries performance, Athens Cultural Center
Ryder & Hazel performance: Body as Omen, Ortega Y Gasset Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. http://incidentmag.com/2014/07/18/body-as-omen-witness/
XMALIA, Songs of Extinction Album & Illustrated Book
Xmalia albumXmalia bookAnimalia Animation, represented by Brill Gallery, awarded Best Video Animation of New England by Artscope Magazine. www.brillgallery109.com
2013 HIGHLIGHTS: Group Exhibit: Cold Comfort, Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY, www.kmoca.com
Rewilderment, collaborative performance-ritual series, http://rewilderment.tumblr.com/
Drawing Installation, Lavender Door Gallery, Stockbridge, MA.
Ryder & Hazel aerial performance with Jeffrey Leppendorf, La Sala, Brooklyn, NY. http://clmp.org/crush/
Circus Exhibit, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI. http://www.thegalleryproject.com
Others Exhibit, musical performance, Loft 594, Brooklyn.
Ten Spot, exhibit & billboard, Lichtenstein Center, Pittsfield MA
Rose, Thorn & Dark Ryder exhibit. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston NY
2012 HIGHLIGHTS: Blue Mountain Center, Residency, Blue Mountain, NY
Biophilia Mural, Etsy Office, Cannon Ball Factory, Hudson NY
Art OMI, Music Residency, Ghent NY
Wild Vines: musical performance, Le Petit Versailles, NYC
Streetopia installation, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
MASS Art visiting artist/performer, Studio for Integrated Media http://vimeo.com/36739915
XMALIA performance, MCLA Presents, N. Adams, MA http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/bcrc/mclapresents/
XMALIA Exhibit & Performance, Silvermine Arts, CT http://silvermineart.org/events/?id=54&yrmo=2012-01
2011 HIGHLIGHTS: XMALIA Performance, PROCTORS Mainstage, Schenectady, NY http://www.proctors.org/events/art-night-jul
Paper Quilts exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, CA http://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/
XMALIA exhibit & Performance Series, DownStreet Art, N. Adams, MA http://downstreetart.org/
2008-2010 HIGHLIGHTS: Animalia ANIMATION: http://www.vimeo.com/19738863
Fall Harbor music: s: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/songs-from-fall-harbor/id301917623?i=301917657 More info: http://www.outofroundrecords.com/
The Hive, Review with Carla Bozulish <http://thehivenyc.com/?p=383>
Luggage Store Gallery, Music & Projections, San Francisco, CA http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/
2nd Floor Projects, Daughters of Houdini exhibit, San Francisco http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/
Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Artist Residency & Performance http://watermillcenter.org/events/cooley
Vermont Studio Center Joan Mitchell Fellow http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/c-ryder-cooley/
Pan American Art Projects, exhibit, Miami FL Review: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-11-20/culture/no-love-for-fidel-castro/2
Albany Center Gallery, Installation & Mural http://www.albanycentergallery.org/news/2008/07/07/river-mural-by-c-ryder-cooley-and-sarah-gonek/
ANIMALIA PERFORMANCES
Los Solos Performance Series, Baltimore, MD 2009 http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos/
MCLA Presents, N. Adams, MA, 2009 http://www.mcla.edu/news/artthatbreathes_172/
Skybox, Brooklyn, NY 2009 http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/75559/see-itlearn-it
Proctors Mainstage Theater, Schenectady, NY 2008