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 her dark carnival band Dust Bowl Faeries. She is based in New York [U.S.A.]
Video Page Facebook InstagramCURRENT SHOWS - PROJECTS 2021
Sustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweeden, Aug 2020-Dec 2021
New Interview - RADIORADIOX, July 2021
RADIORADIOX InterviewDust Bowl Faeries' Candy Store video by Thin Edge Films, Best Production, Munich Music Video Awards
Candy Store video - WatchDust Bowl Faeries - New Album, The Plague Garden
The Plague Garden - ListenGhosts of Love Covid Memorial, video by Thin Edge Films, music by Ryder Cooley
Ghosts of Love memorial - WatchHazels Eyes, new album & book, collaboration with Dennis Herbert
Hazels Eyes Trapeze - WatchHazels Eyes, digital album available on Spotify, Apple Music, etc
Hazels Eyes AlbumLeech House, bio-art performance series with medicinal leeches, ongoing
Leech House Videos - WatchSeed Song, multi-media seed project with Zoey Kroll, ongoing
Seed SongMUSIC: Dust Bowl Faeries & Ryder Cooley solo, 2021
Check the Dust Bowl Faeries Website & Facebook page for Shows
Dust Bowl Faeries websiteDust Bowl Faeries' Zebra video by Thin Edge Films, Best Avant-Garde Video, L.A. Music Video Awards
Zebra Video - WatchBeloved Monster EP
Beloved Monster EPPRESS
Dust Bowl Faeries, NPR/WNYC Interview
NPR/WNYC Interview 2021Dust Bowl Faeries, Vents Magazine Review
Vents Magazine Review 2021Dust Bowl Faeries, Rock and Roll Globe Review
Rock and Roll Globe Review 2020Dust Bowl Faeries, American Songwriter Review
American Songwriter Review 2020Dust Bowl Faeries, Zebra Video Article
Zebra Video Review 2019Ryder Cooley Interview, Indy Eastend Article
Indy Eastend Interview 2019Leech House, Hudson Eye Festival
Leech House - Hudson EyeDust Bowl Faeries, Album Review
Chronogram ReviewXMALIA, News Times Interview
News Times InterviewXMALIA, Times Union Article
Times Union ReviewXMALIA, Posi+tive Magazine Article
Posi+tive Magazine InterviewXMALIA, All Over Albany Review
All Over Albany ReviewXMALIA, Nippertown Review
Nippertown ReviewNippertown, Top 10
Nippertown InterviewRyder Cooley, Interview
For Arbors For Satellites InterviewEVENTS ARCHIVE
2 0 2 0 - 21
Sustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of World Culture, Gothenberg, Sweeden
Dust Bowl Faeries, WAMC The Linda Virtual Concert
Dust Bowl Faeries - WAMCDust Bowl Faeries, Wish You Were Hear Virtual Series, Season 1
Wish You Were Hear - Watch2 0 1 8 - 19
Ethics, Excess & Extinction, exhibit, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Leech House, performance-exhibit, Hudson Eye Fest, Hudson NY, 2019
Whimsey exhibit, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield MA, 2019
Zebra music video, Coney Island & Orlando Film Festivals 2019
Light into Night, sight-specific performance, Art OMI, Ghent NY 2019
Vampire Tango film premiere, Fright Festival, Berlin, Germany
Daughters of Houdini film screening, Joanie 4 Jackie, London, England
Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Artist Talk, Long Island NY
Dark Carnival Dream Music (solo), Southampton Art Center, NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Once Ballroom, Boston MA
Ryder & Rasputina, Putnam Place, Saratoga NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Mercury Lounge, NY NY
Ryder & Rasputina, Johnny Brenda's, Philly PA
Ryder & Rasputina, Rough Trade, Brooklyn NY
DB Faeries at Coney Island Baby, NY NY
Faerie Ball at Racebrook Lodge, Sheffield MA
DB Faeries at Colony, Woodstock NY
DB Faeries at Club Helsinki, 8pm, Hudson NY
Ryder performance/exhibit, Whitney Center, Pittsfield MA
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
2 0 1 7
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
2 0 1 6
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
2 0 1 5
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
2 0 1 4
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
2 0 1 3
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
2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2
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
2 0 0 8 - 2 0 1 0
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