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 & UPCOMING PROJECTS & EVENTS
Fall Harbor-Valentines Brunch Musical Serenade, 10:30-12, Feb. 14 at CAC Woodside, Troy NY http://www.cactroy.org/. $5.75 includes breakfast.
Performance Studies Video Exhibit at the Robert Wilson Watermill Center's Brooklyn Gallery, 111 Front St. #216 (DUMBO), Brooklyn NY. Through Feb. 15
Youth Media Arts Workshop with Ryder Cooley & Moriah Helevi, Time and Space Unlimited, Hudson NY. Feb-May, http://www.timeandspace.org/, 518-822-8448. Open enrollment!
Fall Harbor Ongoing musical collaboration with Todd Chandler. CD's available
Contemporary Artist Center, Troy NY. Artist in Residence, ongoing. http://www.cactroy.org/
Recent, Previous Projects & Events
New Island Festival, Installation-Performance, Governors Island-NYC. Sept. '09. http://www.newislandfestival.com/event/868/watermill-center
Ecotones, Installation-Performance, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, Aug. '09. http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/past.html
Artist Residency & Performance, Watermill Center, April '09. http://watermillcenter.org/events/cooley
NEST Exhibit: Reliquary Installation. Gallery 51, 51 Main St. N. Adams, MA. Through Nov. 29. 10AM-6PM 7 days a week. http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/bcrc/mclagallery51/
ANIMALIA Performance in Baltimore, MD Dec. 4, Los Solos Performance Series at The Loft, 120 W. North Ave. Baltimore. 8:30 PM, $6. http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos/
Vermont Studio Center Joan Mitchell Fellow, Feb. '09. http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/c-ryder-cooley/
Pan American ArtProjects, Miami, FL. Reliquary Installation, Sept '08. http://www.panamericanart.com/artists_viewall/RyderCooley336.php. 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:
-Nov. '09: MCLA, N. Adams, MA: 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.