Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary musician, artist and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions with songs and projected imagery, she creates cinematic performances, drawings and installations. Ryder performs with Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram, and with the band Dust Bowl Faeries. She is based in the New York Hudson Valley [U.S.A.]
Video PageUPCOMING SHOWS - PROJECTS - EVENTS - PRESS
Sustainable Consumption, exhibit, Museum of World Culture, Gothenberg, Sweeden, Aug 2019-May 2020
Sustainable Consumption, exhibit, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweeden, Aug 2020-Dec 2021
Dust Bowl Faeries, dark carnival dream music
Nov. 18, DB Faeries at Club Helsinki, 8pm, Hudson NY
Dec. 21, Faerie Ball at Racebrook Lodge, Sheffield MA, 8pm
Jan 5, DB Faeries at Colony, Woodstock NY, 8pm
Jan 12, DB Faeries at Coney Island Baby, Ny Ny, 8pm
Vampire Tango, DB Faeries 16mm film by Lisa Thomas, coming soon!
Dust Bowl Faeries 2018 Remix EPSeed Song, multi-media seed project http://edibleoffice.wixsite.com/animaliaseeds
Dennis Herbert collaborative album & illustrated book coming soon!
PRESS:
Dust Bowl Faeries Album
Chronogram Review
News Times
News Times Interview
Times Union
Xmalia Times Union Review
Posi+tive Magazine
Posi+tive Magazine Interview
All Over Albany
All Over Albany Review
Nippertown
Nippertown Review
Nippertown
Nippertown Interview
Jasmine Dreame-Wagner
For Arbors For Satellites Interview
RECENT & PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE
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Ethics, Excess & Extinction, group exhibit, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Ryder Cooley & Rasputina, Rough Trade, Brooklyn NY
Enigma, exhibit, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter NY
DB Faeries Residency/Show, The Church, Mt. Vision NY
DB Faeries Remix EP release, Helsinki Ballroom, Hudson NY
Sirens video by Thin Edge Films w DB Faeries, Catskill NY
Boondocks Film Society, solo musical performance, NY
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Berkshire Museum, solo musical performance, Pittsfield MA
Amnesia-Aisenma, Solo Exhibit, HiLo Gallery, Catskill NY
Declaration of Sentiments, exhibit, Athens Cultural Center, Athens NY
CoLab, exhiibit, Green County Council for the Arts, Catskill NY
Whimsy, exhibit, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
Dream Alibis - poetry by JoAnn Stevelos, illustrations by Ryder Cooley
Onelovenola Music Residency/Tour w DB Faeries, New Orleans, LA
DB Faeries, Steampunk Worlds Fair, NJ
DB Faeries, 0+ Festival, Pougkeepsie NY
DB Faeries, Woodstock on the Green, Woodstock NY
Tear of the Clouds, DB Faeries show, Club Helsinki, Hudson NY
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NEST MURAL - Etsy Family Room, Hudson NY 2016
Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibit, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
VIDEO: Ryder & Melora Creager of RasputinaSecret Slate, Installation, Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show, NY
DB Faeries Album Release, Club Helsinki, Hudson NY
DB Faeries O+ Festival, BSP Mainstage, Kingston NY
DB Faeries Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga NY
DB Faeries Preservation Hall, Saratoga NY
DB Faeries Illuminated Fest, Newburg NY
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Whitney Center, Exhibit & DB Faeries show, Pittsfield MA
Blue Mountain Center, Artist Residency, Adirondacks, NY
Platte Clove, DB Faeries show, video: https://vimeo.com/131329854
Caffe Lena, DB Faeries with Melora Creager (Rasputina), Saratoga NY
Ghosts of Love, music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWDtdlx2K2s&feature
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RoadKill, exhibit & DB Faeries show, Athens Cultural Center, Athens NY
Body as Omen, performance, Ortega Y Gasset Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Review: http://incidentmag.com/2014/07/18/body-as-omen-witness/
XMALIA, Songs of Extinction Album & Illustrated Book
Xmalia albumXmalia bookAnimalia Animation, awarded Best Animation of New England by Artscope Magazine
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Cold Comfort, exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY
Rewilderment, performance series, New York & beyond
Solo exhibit, Lavender Door Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
aerial performance, La Sala, Brooklyn, NY
Circus, exhibit, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
Others, exhibit/musical performance, Loft 594, Brooklyn.
Ten Spot, exhibit & billboard, Lichtenstein Center, Pittsfield MA
Dark Ryder, exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston NY
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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 Francisc, CA
MASS Art, Performance workshop, Boston, MA, http://vimeo.com/36739915
Paper Quilts exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkley CA
XMALIA performance, MCLA Presents, N. Adams, MA
XMALIA Exhibit & Performance, Silvermine Arts, CT
XMALIA Performance, Proctors Mainstage, Schenectady, NY
XMALIA exhibit & Performance Series, N. Adams, MA
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Animalia ANIMATION: http://www.vimeo.com/19738863
Fall Harbor, album release
Luggage Store Gallery, Musical 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
Review: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/no-love-for-fidel-6331434
Albany Center Gallery, Installation & Mural
ANIMALIA PERFORMANCES
Los Solos Performance Series, Baltimore, MD
MCLA Presents, N. Adams, MA
Skybox, Brooklyn, NY
Proctors Mainstage Theater, Schenectady, NY