Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions with songs and projected imagery, she creates cinematic music, site-responsive performances and pictorial dream worlds. 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.
Video Page2017 SHOWS - PROJECTS - EVENTS - PRESS
A Declaration of Sentiments: group exhibit, Athens Cultural Center, Athens NY...June 3-Aug 20
Exhibit, HiLo, Catskill NY...Sep 1 - Oct 15... Opening Sep 9 with music by Dust Bowl Faeries
DUST BOWL FAERIES: Ethereal Gothic-Folk music with a Dark Cabaret Twist
June 10, DBF at Steampunk in the Catskills, E. Durham, NY
Aug 5, DBF at 0+ Festival, Pougkeepsie NY
Sep 20-Oct 7, DBF at Onelove Residency, New Orleans, LA
Oct 21, DBF at Roundlake Auditorium, Roundlake NY
Dust Bowl Faeries WebsiteSEED SONG - art, music & seeds, collaboration with Zoey Kroll, http://edibleoffice.wixsite.com/animaliaseeds
DREAM ALIBIS - new book by JoAnn Stevelos, illustrations by Ryder Cooley, now available via amazon.com
Album & Illustrated Book, collaboration with Dennis Herbert, coming soon!
XMALIA, Songs of Extinction Album & Illustrated Book
Xmalia albumXmalia bookPRESS:
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
PREVIOUS PROJECTS-EVENTS
2016 NEST MURAL - Etsy Family Room, Hudson NY 2016 (see public art page for images)
Mohawk Hudson Regional Exhibit, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY,
VIDEO: Ryder & Melora Creager of RasputinaSecret Slate, Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show, NY
Dust Bowl Faeries at O+ Festival, BSP Mainstage, Kingston NY
DUST BOWL FAERIES ALBUM RELEASE , Club Helsinki, Hudson NY
2015 The Collected Works of Lady Ramshackle, drawing installation & musical performance. Whitney Center, Pittsfield MA.
Blue Mountain Center Artist in Residence
Platte Clove Nature Theater, a musical odyssey by Ryder Cooley, Fredo Viola and Luis Mojica. video: https://vimeo.com/131329854
Dust Bowl Faeries at Caffe Lena with Melora Creager of Rasputina and Luis Mojica. Saratoga NY
MoonRyder Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWDtdlx2K2s&feature
2014 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/
Animalia Animation, represented by Brill Gallery, awarded Best Video Animation of New England by Artscope Magazine. www.brillgallery109.com
2013 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 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 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 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