Blithe Riley
contact: beriley [at] gmail [dot] com
EDUCATION
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005 MFA in Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 BFA Honors in Art, Alfred School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY
EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS
2010
Market Estate Project, London, UK
Soup/Art/Beer, Red Dirt Studios, Washington, DC
2009
IAN EPPS and Blithe Riley + ( ) + ANDREW WEATHERS, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY [performance]
The Green Cube, Collaboration with Mary Coble, Skowhegan, ME [installation]
Open Studios Skowhegan, Skowhegan, ME [screening]
2008
Make, Shift, Home, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA [group show]
Performance Laboratory, Broadway 1602, New York, NY [performance/screening]
Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election, Light Industry curated by Nick Hallet, Brooklyn, NY [screening]
Space, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY [performance/screening]
Pink Bloque Revisited, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY [screening/presentation]
2007
Flow, Diasapon Gallery, New York, NY [video accompanying live music by ian epps]
Google Earth Formalized, Roulette Performance Space, New York, NY [performance]
Belief Objects, Brooklyn College Art Lab, Brooklyn NY [screening/talk]
2006
Oh the Weight of it All!, Rooftop Video Installation, Brooklyn, NY [site-specific installation]
Somewhere on Walker, I Await Your Winsome, 32 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY [screening]
LMCC Open House, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY [screening]
2005
Live Video Karaoke!, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA [performance]
[BRA] Video Festival, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA [screening]
Too Far Gone, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Regina Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA [performance/installation]
Busted Screening of DIY Media: The Red State Tour, [screening]
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Appalshop, Whitesburgh, Kentucky
• Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska
• Mitten Gallery, Charlottsville, North Carolina
• Zeitgeist Theater Experiments, New Orleans, Louisiana
2004
Film Kitchen, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA [screening]
Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, Canada [screening]
On Guard, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA [video performance]
2003
Yellow: Picking up after the Victorian, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA [video performance]
Pink Bloque: We’re ready for our Close Up, Version>03 Festival, Chicago, IL [workshop]
Complete Freshness, Future Tenant Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA [video installation]
Trans-Appalachian Tractor Pull, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA [video installation]
2002
Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, New York City, NY [screening]
Hay! Market Research, Hay Market Square, Chicago, IL [street performance]
2001
Transmissions Festival 004, Chopin Theater, Chicago IL [screening]
2000
Broken Space, Open End Gallery, Chicago, IL [video installation]
1999
Prominence: New Faces in Video, Hallwalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY [screening]
1998
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany [screening]
Upstate Video History Conference, Syracuse University, NY [screening]
RESIDENCIES
2010
Market Estate Project, London, UK
Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2009
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
2007
Artlink Residency in Kucevo, Serbia
Brooklyn College Community Partnership Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Program, New York City, NY
2004
The Kitchen Summer Institute, New York City, NY
2000/2001
The Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
1999
Techne And Eros, Santa Fe Media Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
AWARDS
2007
Travel Award from Serbian American Embassy
2006
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Grant, New York, NY
2003/ 04/ 05
Graduate Student Project Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Graduate Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1999
Thayer Fellowship, New York State Arts Grant, Albany, NY
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Summer 2007 Artist Talk, American Embassy in Serbia
Fall 2006 Visiting Artist, Saint Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, Maryland
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009/2008
New York Underground Film Festival, Screening Committee, New York, NY
Spring 2009
Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design, Adjunct Professor, New York, NY
• Video Production
Fall 2008
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University, Washington D.C
Digital Media Arts I, Social Web Design
2005-Present
Creative Capital Foundation Technical Services Manager
• Maintain organization website, manage all foundation software and hardware
2000-Present
Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL
• Editor and Project Coordinator On Art and Artists Collection (http://www.vdb.org)
2006-2007
Organizer for Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2007/Feedback.html)
• Co-organized 11 series program for MoMA with Sally Berger, Assistant Curator of Film/Video
2002- 2005
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
•Teaching Assistant
- Advanced Video, Concept Studio II (Wood), Physical Computing, Live Video Performance
Press Play Video Series, Pittsburgh, PA
• Series Curator/ Organizer
2001
Ladyfest Midwest, Chicago, IL
• Festival Organizer/ Curator/ Web Design
Transmissions Festival, Chicago, IL
• Festival Organizer/ Curator
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Visiting Faculty, beginning web design
2000
Assistant to Tom Weinburg, Chicago, IL
• Catalogued and organized personal video collection including TVTV tapes, Image Union, & the 90’s show
1999
FAVU School of Fine Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
• Visiting Faculty/ Lecturer, led a course on Image/ine software
1998
Cremaster 2, directed by Mathew Barney, New York City, NY
• Production Intern
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City, NY
• Technical Intern
1997-99
Alfred School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY
• Video Department Studio Assistant |