Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, performer and musician. Weaving together chimeric visions with residue of daily life, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories. Working with found materials and personal mythologies, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces.
Watch VideosInterview by Jasmine Dreame Wagner http://forarborsforsatellites.blogspot.com/2010/07/c-ryder-cooley-aestheics-of-empathic.html
CURRENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS & EVENTS
Faunal Respirations: Installation-Performance at the Hudson Opera House, Oct. 8th-11th, 12-5pm. Performance: Sat. Oct. 9th, 6:30-9pm. 327 Warren St, Hudson NY. free
Fall Harbor (musical collaboration with Todd Chandler) NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE! next show: Oct. 25, 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson, NY, free
Community Mural Project, Time & Space Limited, Hudson NY. fall 2010
Recent, Previous Projects & Events
Dont Call Me Pretty: Women in Art. PanAmericanArtProjects, Miami, FL. April '10
20 Miles: Radio Research Walking Performance with Dandy (re-embodied taxidermy deer). Created for Deep Cycle Mobil 49 Radio via Wavefarm & WBXC Radio, Hudson NY, June '10
New Island Festival, installation-performance, Governors Island, NYC. Sept. '09. http://www.newislandfestival.com/event/868/watermill-center
Artist Residency & Performance, Robert Wilson Watermill Center, April '09. http://watermillcenter.org/events/cooley
Vermont Studio Center Joan Mitchell Fellow, Feb. '09. http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/c-ryder-cooley/
Pan American ArtProjects, Miami, FL. Reliquary Installation, Sept '08. Miami New Times review: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-11-20/culture/no-love-for-fidel-castro/2
Albany Center Gallery, Installation & Mural, June '08. http://www.albanycentergallery.org/news/2008/07/07/river-mural-by-c-ryder-cooley-and-sarah-gonek/
ANIMALIA PERFORMANCES:
-Dec. '09: Los Solos Performance Series, Baltimore, MD. http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos/
-Nov. '09: MCLA, N. Adams, MA, in conjunction with Reliquary exhibit at Gallery 51: http://www.mcla.edu/news/artthatbreathes_172/
-July '09: Mission Creek Festival, San Francisco CA.
-June '09: Skybox, Brooklyn, NY: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/75559/see-itlearn-it
-Sept '08: Proctors Mainstage Theater, Schenectady, NY. Albany Times Union video interview.