Anne Riley
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne Riley
| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
- University of Texas at Austin {{Small|(BFA)}}
- Native Education College
}}
| occupation = Artist
}}
Anne Riley is an interdisciplinary artist of Slavey Dene (Fort Nelson First Nation) and German ancestry. Born in Dallas, Texas, Riley currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/spill-exhibition/|title=Spill|website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-03-11}} Several of Riley's works derive from her identity as Indigiqueer,{{Cite web |title=Anne Riley |url=http://artspeak.ca/anne-riley/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809074408/http://artspeak.ca/anne-riley/ |archive-date=2020-08-09 |access-date= |website=Artspeak |language=en-US}} a term coined by Cree artist TJ Cuthand,{{Cite podcast |url=https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/47547617/indigiqueer |title=Indigiqueer |website=All My Relations |last=Wilbur |first=Matika |last2=Keene |first2=Adrienne |date=2019-04-03 |access-date=2023-05-22}} and commonly used by Indigenous artists including Oji-Cree storyteller, Joshua Whitehead.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-12-15 |title=Poet Joshua Whitehead redefines two-spirit identity in Full-Metal Indigiqueer |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/from-dystopian-futures-to-secret-pasts-check-out-these-indigenous-storytellers-over-the-holidays-1.4443312/poet-joshua-whitehead-redefines-two-spirit-identity-in-full-metal-indigiqueer-1.4447321 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |website=CBC News}} The term is interconnected with Two-spirit, an identity and role that continues to be vital within and across many Indigenous nations.{{Cite journal |last=Johns |first=Jessica C. |date=Autumn 2019 |title=Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities |url=https://cmagazine.com/articles/together-apart-queer-indigeneities |journal=C Magazine |issue=143 |pages=63–65}} Through artistic projects, Riley engages Indigenous methodologies that prioritize learning through embodiment, nurturing communities as well as the non-human world.{{Cite journal |last=Dehod |first=Tarin |date=2018 |title=Responsible Hearts: T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss and Anne Riley |journal=BlackFlash Magazine |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=16–22}} Riley received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://anne-riley.com/about/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127214125/http://anne-riley.com/about/ |archive-date=2022-01-27 |access-date= |website=Anne Riley |language=en-US}} Riley is a recipient of the City of Vancouver Studio Award (2018–2021).{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=2018-2021 Artist Studio Award recipients |url=https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/artist-studio-award.aspx |access-date=2020-03-20 |website=City of Vancouver |language=en}}
Selected works and projects
From 2021 to 2022, Riley collaborated with artists Nadia Lichtig, Josèfa Ntjam, Jol Thoms, as well as physicists, chemists and engineers from SNOLAB on the exhibition Drift: Art and Dark Matter.{{Cite web |title=Drift: Art and Dark Matter |url=https://agnes.queensu.ca/exhibition/drift-art-and-dark-matter/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Agnes Etherington Art Centre |language=en-US}} The project was conceived as both residency and exhibition, and has exhibited at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Carleton University Art Gallery.{{Cite web |last=Melchor |first=Stephanie |date=2021-05-18 |title=Exhibit explores layers of SNOLAB |url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/exhibit-explores-layers-of-snolab |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=symmetry magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Drift: Art and Dark Matter |url=https://cuag.ca/exhibition/drift-art-and-dark-matter/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Carleton University Art Gallery |language=en-US}}
From 2017 to 2019, Riley and her collaborator, T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss, worked on a public art project, A Constellation of Remediation, commissioned by the City of Vancouver.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=A Constellation of Remediation |url=https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/a-constellation-of-remediation.aspx |access-date=2020-03-11 |website=City of Vancouver |language=en}} The project consisted of planting Indigenous remediation gardens on vacant gas station lots throughout the city as a way of decolonizing and healing the soil.
For the exhibition Every Little Bit Hurts, at the Western Front Society in Vancouver in 2015, Riley created an installation titled that brings the other nearly as close as oneself.{{Cite web |title=Archives |url=https://westernfront.ca/archives/index?table=ca_occurrences&restrictToTypes%5B%5D=work&restrictToTypes%5B%5D=event&search%5B%5D%5Bca_occurrences.work_type%5D=&search%5B%5D%5Bca_occurrences.preferred_labels.name%5D=Anne+Riley |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=WESTERN FRONT |language=en}} It consisted of a sculpture, made of 62 plaster molds of replicas of Riley's hands holding each other, and two sets of blue drawings on the wall of the art gallery.{{Cite journal |last=Riley |first=Anne |date=Spring 2016 |editor-last=Badger |editor-first=Gina |editor2-last=Himada |editor2-first=Nasrin |title=Įladzeeé: Pulse in the Wrist |url=https://micemagazine.ca/issue-one/įladzeeé-pulse-wrist |journal=MICE Magazine |language=en |issue=1 |access-date=2020-03-11 }} Those drawings were created as a remnant of Riley's performance, which was documented on video and also exhibited at the exhibition.
In 2015, Riley attended the Time_Place_Space: Nomad residency program in Melbourne, Australia. There, Riley expanded her scope of art practice to performance and examined experiences of silence as gestures of resilience.{{Cite web |last=Riley |first=Anne |date=March 2016 |title=Time Place Space Nomad: Silence as Resilience |url=https://canadacouncil.ca:443/spotlight/2016/03/time-place-space-nomad-silence-as-resilience |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Canada Council for the Arts |language=en}}
Exhibitions
Riley's artworks often refer to Indigenous people's experiences, decolonization of Indigenous and women bodies, two-spirits, and healing of land and people from traumatic experiences.
Exhibitions include:
- 2021: Drift: Art and Dark Matter at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.{{Cite web |title=Drift: Art and Dark Matter |url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/drift-art-and-dark-matter/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery |language=en-CA}}
- 2020: Her words are Not Vanishing as she leaves her howl inside us at ArtSpeak, Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 2019: Spill at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia. As a part of this exhibition, Riley and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss offered a workshop at UBC farm to demonstrate their project A Constellation of Remediation.{{Cite web|url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/spill-response/|title=Spill: Response|website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-03-11}}
- 2019: This Land is Lonely for Us at Satellite Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta{{Cite web |title=this land is lonely for us |url=https://www.banffcentre.ca/this-land-is-lonely-for-us |access-date=2020-03-11 |website=Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity |language=en}}
- 2018: If the river ran upwards at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta{{Cite web |title=If the river ran upwards |url=https://www.banffcentre.ca/if-river-ran-upward |access-date=2020-03-11 |website=Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity |language=en}}
- 2017: Pōuliuli, West Space, Melbourne, Australia{{Cite web|url=https://westspace.org.au/exhi/16142/pouliuli|title=West Space|website=westspace.org.au|access-date=2020-03-17}}
- 2015: Every Little Bit Hurts at Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia{{Cite web |title=Every Little Bit Hurts - Western Front |url=https://front.bc.ca/events/every-little-bit-hurts/ |access-date=2020-03-11 |language=en-US}}
- 2014: 600 Campbell at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia{{Cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/video-podcast/600-campbell/|title=600 Campbell|website=Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-03-17}}
- 2012: Head Curator for the show, Now What It Never Was at the Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/The_Austin_Chronicle-2012-10-26/|title=The Austin Chronicle 2012-10-26|date=2016-06-16|work=The Austin Chronicle|access-date=March 20, 2020|page=77}}
Published texts
- Anne Riley, líndline (Where Rivers Meet), “ALMANAC” edited by Maggie Groat published by Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery.{{Cite web |last=smitchell |date=2017-05-04 |title=ALMANAC |url=https://kwag.ca/content/almanac |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=kwag.ca |language=en}}
- Anne Riley, Įladzeeé: Pulse in the Wrist: Indigeneity and the Work of Emotional Labour, 2016, MICE Magazine.{{Cite web |title=Issue One: Invisible Labour |url=https://micemagazine.ca/issue-one |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=MICE Magazine |date=21 April 2016 |language=en}}
- Anne Riley, Canada Council For the Arts Spotlight Post, Time_Place_Space : Nomad; Silence as Resilience, 2016.{{Cite web |title=Time Place Space Nomad: Silence as Resilience |url=https://canadacouncil.ca/spotlight/2016/03/time-place-space-nomad-silence-as-resilience |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Canada Council for the Arts |language=en}}
Grants and awards
- 2018–2021: City of Vancouver Studio Award Recipient
- 2017: British Columbia Arts Council Grant for Professional Development (Advanced Mentorship with Interdisciplinary artist Laiwan){{Cite web |title=Mentorships funded by the BC Arts Council — L A I W A N |url=https://www.laiwanette.net/news/2015/11/27/b0x9n8awmv3uaz5p70kyh6q8ktm10i |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=L A I W A N |date=27 November 2015 |language=en-US}}
- 2016: Canada Council for the Arts International Artist Residency Grant (NYC, Alma De Mujer Center for Social Change, Austin, TX)
- 2015: Canada Council for the Arts Inter-Arts Residency Grant (Melbourne, Australia, TPS: Nomad Residency)
- 2014: British Columbia Arts Council Grant for Professional Development (Mentorship with Interdisciplinary artist Laiwan)
References
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Category:University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts alumni
Category:First Nations artists
Category:Canadian LGBTQ artists
Category:American LGBTQ artists
Category:21st-century First Nations women
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