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]

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.
  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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