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 VideosCURRENT PROJECTS, EVENTS & REVIEWS
WED. Jan 25 2012, XMALIA Extinction Cabaret, MCLA Presents, N. Adams MA. 7:30 pm, $10, MCLA Campus-Venable Gym http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/bcrc/mclapresents/
XMALIA Interview with Valeria Federici, POSI+TIVE Magazine: http://www.positive-magazine.com/art/xmalia-a-graveyard-cabaret/
XMALIA Interview with Danielle Furfaro, All Over Albany: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/08/17/c-ryder-cooley-breathes-the-life-of-art-into-extin
XMALIA Times Union Review http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Xmalia-A-beautiful-and-indescribable-1469435.php#ixzz1SXpeLg2z
XMAILA Nippertown Review http://www.nippertown.com/live-c-ryder-cooleys-xmalia-club-helsinki-52611/ http://www.nippertown.com/2011/03/31/live-ryder-cooley-history-laboratory-32611
Animalia ANIMATION: http://www.vimeo.com/19738863. Animalia Illustrated Book now available. Contact rydercooley@gmail.com for more information
RECENT-PREVIOUS EVENTS & REVIEWS
Jan 7-8 2012, XMALIA Cabaret & Exhibit, Silvermine Arts, New Cannan, CT. Jan 8, 5pm, $20, http://silvermineart.org/events/?id=54&yrmo=2012-01
JULY 15 ~ XMALIA Vaudeville at PROCTORS Mainstage! NY Capital District DEBUT, Schenectady, NY. http://www.proctors.org/events/art-night-jul
Paper Quilts, group exhibition at Berkeley Art Center, CA. Through Dec. 4. http://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/
June-Oct 2011, XMALIA GALLERY & Performance Series at DownStreet Art, N. Adams, MA. http://downstreetart.org/
Fall Harbor (music by Ryder & T. Chandler) 2 albums available: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fallharbor, itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/songs-from-fall-harbor/id301917623?i=301917657 more info: Fall Harbor, http://www.outofroundrecords.com/
Ryder Cooley Interview, by Jasmine Dreame Wagner http://forarborsforsatellites.blogspot.com/2010/07/c-ryder-cooley-aestheics-of-empathic.html
XMALIA Interview (Nippertown) http://www.nippertown.com/2010/10/06/cool-factor-10-the-art-and-performances-of-c-ryder-cooley
Ryder Cooley review, The Hive, with Carla Bozulish <http://thehivenyc.com/?p=383>
Music & Projections at Luggage Store Gallery. April 14-28. 1007 Market St. San Francisco, CA. http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/
2nd Floor Projects, Daughters of Houdini exhibit (Ryder & Z. Kroll), San Francisco, CA. Jan. 2011. http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/
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/
-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.