Anne Riley

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.[10] 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.[11][12]

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] 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.[2]

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.[13] 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.[14] Those drawings were created as a remnant of Riley's performance, which was documented on video and also exhibited at the exhibition.[13]

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.[15]

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.[16]
• 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.[17]
• 2019: This Land is Lonely for Us at Satellite Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta[18]
• 2018: If the river ran upwards at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta[19]
• 2017: Pōuliuli, West Space, Melbourne, Australia[20]
• 2015: Every Little Bit Hurts at Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia[21]
• 2014: 600 Campbell at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia[22]
• 2012: Head Curator for the show, Now What It Never Was at the Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin.[23]

• Anne Riley, líndline (Where Rivers Meet), “ALMANAC” edited by Maggie Groat published by Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery.[24]
• Anne Riley, Įladzeeé: Pulse in the Wrist: Indigeneity and the Work of Emotional Labour, 2016, MICE Magazine.[25]
• Anne Riley, Canada Council For the Arts Spotlight Post, Time_Place_Space : Nomad; Silence as Resilience, 2016.[26]

• 2018–2021: City of Vancouver Studio Award Recipient[9]
• 2017: British Columbia Arts Council Grant for Professional Development (Advanced Mentorship with Interdisciplinary artist Laiwan)[27]
• 2016: Canada Council for the Arts International Artist Residency Grant (NYC, Alma De Mujer Center for Social Change, Austin, TX)[26]
• 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)