Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary musician, artist and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions and macabre songs, Ryder creates cinematic performances, bio-art phenomena, drawings, collages and multi-media installations. Ryder performs with Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram, and with her dark carnival band Dust Bowl Faeries. She is based in the New York Hudson Valley [U.S.A.]
Video Page Facebook InstagramCURRENT SHOWS - PROJECTS
Dust Bowl Faeries (band), Dark Carnival Dream Music
Dust Bowl Faeries websiteNew Dust Bowl Faeries video & EP, 2023!
Lost In Time video - watchCyanide Hotel video by John Huba
Cyanide Hotel - watchTaboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, Sept 27-29 2023, Malta
Leech House bio-art collaboration, email rydercooley @gmail for details
Dust Bowl Faeries anti-war song, Ketermaya
Ketermaya (found footage video) - watchMUSIC/PERFORMANCE Ryder & Dust Bowl Faeries
Check the DUST BOWL FAERIES website & socials for shows!
Dust Bowl Faeries IGHazels Eyes, Trapeze performance by Ryder
Hazels Eyes Trapeze - watchCandy Store, award winning video by Thin Edge Films
Candy Store - watchDust Bowl Faeries album, The Plague Garden
The Plague Garden - listenZebra, award winning video by Thin Edge Films
Zebra - watchAnd-Hof Animal Sanctuary, Loon Lake video
And-Hof Animal Sanctuary - watchGhosts of Love by Thin Edge Films, music by Ryder
Ghosts of Love, Covid Memorial - watchHazels Eyes, album by Dennis Herbert & Ryder
Hazels Eyes - listenDust Bowl Faeries EP, Beloved Monster
Beloved Monster - listenDust Bowl Faeries debut album
Dust Bowl Faeries - listenXMALIA, Songs of Extinction Album
Xmalia - listenXMALIA, Songs of Extinction Illustrated Book
Xmalia bookPRESS
Dust Bowl Faeries - ROCK N ROLL GLOBE 2023
ROCK N ROLL GLOBE reviewDust Bowl Faeries - Rock at Night 2023
ROCK at NIGHT reviewRyder Interview - RADIO-RADIOX
RADIO-RADIOX 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 reviewDust 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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FEMeeting, Women in Art, Science & Technology, presenting artist, Taos NM 2023
Sustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of Ethnography, Sweeden
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Artist in Residence, Oregon,
Ryder Cooley - SitkaSustainable Consumption exhibit, Museum of World Culture, Sweeden
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 - Watch2 0 1 8 - 2 0 1 9
Ethics, Excess & Extinction, exhibit, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Seed Song, multi-media seed project with Zoey Kroll
Seed SongLeech 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
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
Ryder & Rasputina, Johnny Brenda's, PA
Ryder & Rasputina, Rough Trade, NY
Duat Bowl Faeries, Coney Island Baby, NY
Faerie Ball at Racebrook Lodge, MA
Dust Bowl Faeries, Colony Woodstock, NY
DB Faeries at Club Helsinki, 8pm, Hudson NY
Ryder performance/exhibit, Whitney Center, MA
Enigma, exhibit, Catskill Mountain Foundation, NY
DB Faeries Residency/Show, The Church, Mt. Vision NY
DB Faeries Remix EP release, Helsinki Ballroom, NY
Sirens video by Thin Edge Films/Dust Bowl Faeries, NY
Boondocks Film Society, solo performance, NY
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Berkshire Museum, solo musical performance, MA
Amnesia-Aisenma, Solo Exhibit, HiLo Gallery, NY
Declaration of Sentiments, exhibit, Athens Cultural Center, NY
CoLab, exhiibit, Green County Council for the Arts, NY
Whimsy, exhibit, Whitney Center for the Arts, MA
Dream Alibis - poetry by JoAnn Stevelos, illustrations by Ryder Cooley
Onelovenola Residency/Tour, New Orleans, LA
Dust Bowl Faeries, Steampunk Worlds Fair, NJ
DB Faeries, 0+ Festival, NY
DB Faeries, Woodstock on the Green, 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 Album Release, Club Helsinki, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries O+ Festival, BSP Mainstage, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries Tang Museum, Skidmore College, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries Preservation Hall, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries Illuminated Fest, NY
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Whitney Center, Exhibit & DB Faeries show, MA
Blue Mountain Center, Artist Residency, NY
Platte Clove, DB Faeries show, video: https://vimeo.com/131329854
Caffe Lena with Melora Creager(Rasputina), 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
Review: http://incidentmag.com/2014/07/18/body-as-omen-witness/
Animalia Animation, awarded Best Animation of New England by Artscope Magazine
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Cold Comfort, exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Rewilderment, performance series, New York & beyond
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
XMALIA exhibit & Performance Series, 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