CASSIE RIGER
Born in Rochester, NY. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Solo Exhibitions
Automatic Vaudeville. Pitzer College Art Galleries. Curated by Ciara Ennis. September 29 - December 8, 2018
Early Influences. Northwestern University, Kaplan Institute A.I.R Studio. Curated by John Neff. November 10-23, 2013
Early Influences. Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine. April 27 – May 10, 2013
A Playbook of Silent Fantasy. Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA. May 15 – 31, 2010
Selected Group Exhibitions
New California Public Art, Sacramento. Curated by Dyson & Womak. May 2022
Presence Requested, Irenic Projects, Pasadena. May 15- July 17, 2021
Arm Gallery, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles. Curated by David Bell. 2020 (online exhibition)
Queer Biennial: What if Utopia, Last Projects, Los Angeles. Curated by Ilona Berger and Rubén Esparza. June 1- June 30, 2018
Plan-B International Art Festival, Borgarnes, Iceland. Curated by Logi Bjarnason, Sigthora Odins, and Inga Björk Bjarnadóttir. August 11-13, 2017
Distance Transform, Agency Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curated by John Espinosa. January 31- March 18, 2014
The Familiar Unfamiliar, 29 Palms, CA. Curated by Manual History Machines Collective. October 19-20, 2013
UCI MFA 2013. For Your Art, Los Angeles. June 26- July 10, 2013
Boom! Den Contemporary, West Hollywood, July 27 - August 24, 2012
Collections
Public Art California
Awards, commissions, residencies
California Public Art Commission, California Natural Resources Agency, 2021
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2017, 2019
Artist in Residence, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 2018
California Arts Council, Arts and Accessibility Grant, 2018
FOCA Curators Lab Award, Los Angeles, 2018
Women’s Center for Creative Work Grant, Los Angeles, 2016, 2017
Institute for Research in the Arts, University of California, Mini Grant, 2013
University of California, Irvine, School of the Arts Travel Grant, 2011, 2013
National Art Strategies, Future Leadership Fellowship, San Francisco, 2009
Andy Warhol Foundation, Alternative Exposure Grant, as part of Right Window Gallery Collective, San Francisco, 2008
University of Chicago, Merit Fellowship, 2005
Curatorial Projects
Presence Requested, Irenic Projects, Pasadena. May 15- July 17, 2021
PRISMS, exhibitions and performance events. Co-curated with Mak Kern. Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 2018
Fall 2012 Film Series, co-curated with Bryan Jackson. Department of Art, UC Irvine, September-December 2012
The Analog Hole (Or “Abundance”), solo exhibition by John Neff. Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA. May 9 – May 31, 2009
Right Window Fourth Wall: Looking But Not Touching, performance art series. Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA. May 11, 18, 25-26, 2008
An Evening with MGM Dance. SF Camerawork. August 2, 2008
Listening Party. Event with filmmaker Jenni Olson. SF Camerawork. Winter 2007
Selected Published Writing
“How do we remember that we are forgetting?” Artweek, October 2008
“Desirée Holman,” Art Ltd., May 2008
“You Dive to Experience the Feeling of Falling: Jenni Olson’s Experimental Melodramas, ” Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Fall/Winter 2006
Lectures, Panels, and Teaching
Artist Talk, Pitzer College Art Galleries. October 4, 2018
Visiting Artist, Artstart high school program, October 2018
Visual Arts Panelist, Los Angeles Arts Commission. March 23, 2016
Visiting Artist, Santa Ana College, Foundations of Visual Art, May 21, 2015
Visiting Artist, Otterbein University, Integrated Media, April 2, 2014
Visiting Artist, Northwestern University, Introduction to Contemporary Art, November 11, 2013
Gallery Talk: Matt Morris & Cassie Riger in Conversation, Northwestern University, Kaplan Institute, November 10, 2013
UCLA Summer Institute for the Gifted, Instructor: digital photography, writing (2012-2013)
Art Department Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine (2010-2012)
University Instructor: digital video, University of California, Irvine (2013)
Performances
MESHES. Presented at Plan-B International Art Festival, curated by Logi Bjarnason, Sigthora Odins, and Inga Björk Bjarnadóttir. Borgarnes, Iceland. August 13, 2017
3-2-1 Contact. Presented in The Familiar Unfamiliar, curated by Manual History Machines Collective. 29 Palm, CA. October 19, 2013
A Playbook of Silent Fantasy. SOMARTS, San Francisco. May 2010
A-verbal. Collaboration with Amanda Davidson. Poets Theater, Small Press Traffic. California College of Art, San Francisco. January 2009
Art Film & Video Production
Production Crew, Greystone, Dir. Kerry Tribe. (2012) Commission for Pacific Standard Time
Assistant Director, Heterotopias, Dir. Desirée Holman. (2011) Exhibited at Matrix, Berkeley Art Museum
Assistant Director / Art Department, Maggots and Men, Dir. Cary Cronenwett. (2009) Outfest Platinum Selection and 2009 winner of San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award
Bibliography
“Art Works: A collection of public art for the State of California,” Dyson & Womak, © 2022 The State of California
“Cassie Riger: Embodying Images,” Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Automatic Vaudeville Catalog, Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2019
“Axis of Light X Darkness,” Jennifer Frias, PRISMS Catalog, Fellows of Contemporary Art, March 2018
“PRISMS: Five Artists Make Magic With Light at FOCA,” By Patrick Quinn, Art and Cake, March 8, 2018 on PRISMS
“Curatorial Cage Match In Irvine, ” Dave Barton, OC Weekly, September 20, 2012 on Curatorial Exchange
“Opening and Closing,” Kevin Killian, SFMOMA Open Space, May 12, 2009 on Analog Hole
Education
MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, 2013
MA, Humanities, Art History Concentration, University of Chicago, 2005
San Francisco Art Institute
BS, Studio Art, Honors, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997