C. Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, performer and musician. Weaving together chimeric visions with songs and projected imagery, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces.
Watch VideosCURRENT PROJECTS, EVENTS & REVIEWS
Biophilia Mural, Cannon Ball Factory | Etsy Building, Hudson NY. Opening & performance June 22, 2012
Music Show: Ryder & Hazel, Hazy Loper, Projections by Eliza Barios, May 17, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose CA
Streetopia installation & performance, Luggage Store Gallery annex, San Francisco, CA. Opening May 18th, performance May 20, 2012
XMALIA Installation-performance, Foundry, Cohoes NY. July 2012 (stay tuned)
Art OMI Music Residency, July 2012, NY
Blue Mountain Center Residency, September 2012, NY
XMALIA MUSIC: live recording at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, with Nick Kopp, Nick Matulis & Corey Aldrich. Recorded by Troy Pohl. Coming soon!
XMALIA PRESS:
Times Union Review: http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Xmalia-A-beautiful-and-indescribable-1469435.php#ixzz1SXpeLg2z 2011
POSI+TIVE Magazine, interview with Valeria Federici: http://www.positive-magazine.com/art/xmalia-a-graveyard-cabaret/ 2011
All Over Albany, interview with Danielle Furfaro: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/08/17/c-ryder-cooley-breathes-the-life-of-art-into-extin 2011
The News-Times, interview: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Performance-artist-brings-multimedia-extinction-2439150.php 2012
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 2011
Nippertown interview: http://www.nippertown.com/2010/10/06/cool-factor-10-the-art-and-performances-of-c-ryder-cooley 2010
Interview with Jasmine Dreame Wagner: http://forarborsforsatellites.blogspot.com/2010/07/c-ryder-cooley-aestheics-of-empathic.html 2010
PREVIOUS EVENTS & PRESS
MASSArt visiting artist/performer, Studio for Integrated Media, 2012 http://vimeo.com/36739915
XMALIA Cabaret, MCLA Presents, N. Adams MA 2012 http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/bcrc/mclapresents/
XMALIA Exhibit & Cabaret, Silvermine Arts Center, New Cannan, CT 2012 http://silvermineart.org/events/?id=54&yrmo=2012-01
XMALIA Show, PROCTORS Mainstage, Schenectady, NY 2011 http://www.proctors.org/events/art-night-jul
Paper Quilts, group exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2011 http://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/
XMALIA GALLERY & Performance Series, DownStreet Art, N. Adams, MA 2011 http://downstreetart.org/
Animalia ANIMATION: http://www.vimeo.com/19738863. Animalia Illustrated Book now available. Contact rydercooley@gmail.com for more information
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 review, The Hive, with Carla Bozulish <http://thehivenyc.com/?p=383>
Music & Projections, Luggage Store Gallery. San Francisco, CA http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ 2011
2nd Floor Projects, Daughters of Houdini exhibit (Ryder & Z. Kroll), San Francisco: http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/ 2011
Artist Residency & Performance, Robert Wilson Watermill Center: http://watermillcenter.org/events/cooley 2009
Vermont Studio Center Joan Mitchell Fellow: http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/c-ryder-cooley/ 2009
Pan American ArtProjects, Installation. Miami New Times review: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-11-20/culture/no-love-for-fidel-castro/2 2008
Albany Center Gallery, Installation & Mural: http://www.albanycentergallery.org/news/2008/07/07/river-mural-by-c-ryder-cooley-and-sarah-gonek/ 2008
ANIMALIA PERFORMANCES
Los Solos Performance Series, Baltimore, MD. http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos/ 2009
MCLA, N. Adams, MA, in conjunction with Reliquary exhibit at Gallery 51: http://www.mcla.edu/news/artthatbreathes_172/ 2009
Skybox, Brooklyn, NY: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/75559/see-itlearn-it 2009
Proctors Mainstage Theater, Schenectady, NY. Albany Times Union video interview: 2008