Anne Riley

Anne Riley is an multidisciplinary artist with German, Cree, and Slavey Dene ancestry (Fort Nelson First Nation).[1] Born in Dallas TX, Riley currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.[2] Several of Riley's works are originated from her identity as an indigiqueer,[3] which term is used by indigenous artists including a writer Joshua Whitehead, who make space for two-spirits to practice their identity through indigenous ceremonies, as a mean of defending colonial suppression.[4] Through art projects, Riley also explores indigenous methods of learning through embodiment and nurturing of community and environment.[5] Riley received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.[6] Riley is a recipient of the City of Vancouver Studio Award (2018-2021).[7]

Selected Works and Projects

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.[1] Project consists of planting Indigenous remediation gardens on vacant gas stations lots throughout the city as a way of decolonizing and healing the dirt back to soil.[2]

For the exhibition Every Little Bit Hurts, at the Western Front in Vancouver in 2015, Riley made an installation titled that brings the other nearly as close as oneself.[8] It consisted of a sculpture, made of 62 plaster molds of replicas of Riley’s hands holding each other, and a two sets of blue drawings on the wall of the art gallery.[9] Those drawings were created as a remnant of Riley’s performance, which was documented on video and also exhibited at the exhibition.[8]

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.[10]

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:

  • 2020: Her words are Not Vanishing as she leaves her howl inside us at ArtSpeak, Vancouver, British Columbia.[3]
  • 2019: Spill at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] 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.[11]
  • 2019: This Land is Lonely for Us at Satellite Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta[12]
  • 2018: If the river ran upwards at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta[13]
  • 2017: Pōuliuli, West Space, Melbourne, Australia[14]
  • 2015: Every Little Bit Hurts at Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia[8]
  • 2014: 600 Campbell at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia[15]
  • 2012: Head Curator for the show, Now What It Never Was at the Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin.[16]
gollark: Oh, a notification LED sort of thing? Cool!
gollark: Oh, did the location of the ports get decided yet?
gollark: Arguably that'd be the Librem, except on cost.
gollark: I think flipping a switch then editing a software option then flipping it again would be a bit weird.
gollark: I would quite like the idea of software controlled power switches with physically wired on LEDs (so you can see it's actually off) but have no idea if it would be practical and it's probably too expensive.

References
  1. Vancouver, City of. "A Constellation of Remediation". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  2. "Spill". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  3. "ANNE RILEY | Artspeak". Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  4. Johns, Jessica C. (Autumn 2019). "Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities". International Contemporary Art: 63–65.
  5. Dehod, Tarin (October 2018 – January 2019). "Responsible Hearts: T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss and Anne Riley". BlackFlash Magazine. 35: 16–22.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  6. "About". Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  7. Vancouver, City of. "2018-2021 Artist Studio Award recipients". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  8. "Every Little Bit Hurts - Western Front". Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  9. "Įladzeeé: Pulse in the Wrist". MICE Magazine. 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  10. "Time Place Space Nomad: Silence as Resilience". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  11. "Spill: Response". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  12. "this land is lonely for us". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  13. "If the river ran upwards". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  14. "West Space". westspace.org.au. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  15. "600 Campbell". Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  16. "The Austin Chronicle 2012-10-26". The Austin Chronicle. 2016-06-16. p. 77. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
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