CV JULIA EDITH RIGBY ︱ jrigby762@gmail.com ︱ www.juliaedithrigby.com
EDUCATION
2020 University of California, Davis, M.F.A. in Art Studio, Department of Art and Art History, phi kappa phi
2019 Welding Certification, FCAW, MIG, American Welding Society
2012 Scripps College, B.A. in Environmental Writing, Honors, magna cum laude, Claremont, CA
PERFORMANCES
2024 Life Cycle of a Fever Dream, live performance at Heidi Duckler Dance, The Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
Felt Noise, live performance for Sappy Fest, Mount Allison University Chapel, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada (with Rita McKeough, Ursula Sukół and Alec Brilling)
Fever Dream, live performance at solo opening, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Swell Organ—Variations, LEAF Festival, Center for Musical Arts, Lafayette, CO (with Amy Biondo)
Como Se Marchita Una Rosa, Chembech Barra de Escucha, Merida, Mexico (with NINA NINA and La Extrañeza)
2023 Branchia, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Gill Valves, The Church / Art House, Omaha, NE (with Kafele Williams)
Brass Tide, LOW END, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (with Zosha Warpeha and Chris Williams)
Sea Cave II, performed for Sound Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Sea Cave, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smryna Beach, FL
OneBeat Fellowship Performance Series, Toulouse Theater, New Orleans
2021 Performing Arts Symposium, Performance Studies PhD Symposium, UC Davis Performance PhD studies, Della Theatre, Davis, CA, (with Ekaterina Zharinova)
2020 Open Performance, Movement Research, New York, NY (online) with Ekaterina Zharinova,
2019 Residue, performed for Outside the Lines, Wright Theatre, Davis CA
Residue II, performed for Stage, Staged, Staging: Stretching the Borders of Theatre and Performance, Performance Studies PhD Symposium, Della Theatre, Davis, CA
First Drafts, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Fever Dream, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2022 Sea Cave Transmogrification, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Afterflow, with Christopher Azevedo, MFA Studio Gallery, Davis, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Eternal Network, Berlin Art Week, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany
SoundPedro, Angels Gate Cultural Cente, San Pedro, CA
Entangled Forests, Kornhausforum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2023 Response-Ability, SomoS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 Salon d’International, KunstraumLaGirafe, Berlin, Germany
Collaborative Painting 5, Syndikat, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2021 Artists in Residence Exhibition, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
Anthropocene Epiphany, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Indices of Being, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Land and Water, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, two-person exhibition with Caz Azevedo (online)
2020 Altered Trajectories, MFA Thesis Show, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis CA, (online)
Assemblage, The MFA Show, Luhring Augustine, New York and The Olympia Project, New York, NY (online)
The Printed Realm, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
2019 Climate Therapy, Basement Gallery, Davis CA
blip, first year MFA exhibition, JayJay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
MFA Now 2019, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco CA
Underground, Basement Gallery, Davis CA
2018 ClimART, San Francisco Academy of Art, Cannery Gallery, San Francisco, CA
105th Annual Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 Home-land, Galerie Sehnsucht, The Netherlands
Flora and Faura, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tidal Response, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA
The Power of Printmaking, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
Graphically Observed, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts
Southern Graphics Council International Exhibition, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Snap, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Inverness Almanac Retrospective, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
Chrysalis Studio Group Show, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Land(ing) Art, Rivertown Revival Sculpture Walk, Petaluma, CA
2015 New Works, Skulduggerie Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
RESIDENCIES
2024 (Upcoming) Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Cascade Head, OR
CAMPBIENT, Seattle, WA
2023 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Experimental Sound Art Residency, Omaha, NE
One Beat Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2022 GlogauAIR Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
PLAYA Artist Residency, Summer Lake, OR
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture Artist Residency, Sisters, OR
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artist Residency, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2017 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY
ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 Arts New Brunswick, Performance Grant for SappyFest, Sackville, New Brunswick
LA County Department of Arts and Culture Grant
2023 Experimental Sound Art Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Artist Grant, awarded by the Center for Cultural Innovation
OneBeat Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and OneBeat for the One Beat Residency
2020 Fay Nelson Award, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
Graduate Student Researcher, awarded by the Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
Finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, CA
2019 Associate Instructor Fellowship, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
Graduate Student Researcher, awarded by the Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
Freemon Gadberry Award, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
Mary Lou Osborn Award, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant (Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Furniture Design, Painting) University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
2020-2018 Lab Monitor (design wood shop, sculpture studios, art studio wood shop) Department of Art and Art History and Department of Design, University of California, Davis
2019 Associate Instructor, Introduction to Painting, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
Guest Professor, Introduction to Sculpture, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
Facilitator, movement workshop for Intermediate Photography, Professor Tim Hyde, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis (winter quarter, spring quarter, fall quarter)
Choreographer, choreographed original score for Residue, a live performance piece in Outside the Lines, Wyatt Theatre, Department of Dance and Theatre, University of California, Davis
2017 “Introduction to Large-Scale Hand Printing”, Co-Facilitator, Ink.Paper.Plate Shop/Studio, Point Reyes Station, CA
2016-2017 Arts workshop facilitator at Ink.Paper.Plate Studio, a printmaking studio in Point Reyes Station, CA. Assisted with workshops and events for West Marin Workshop for the Arts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 “Sounding, Resonating, and Responding: Yeni Ma’s curated group show Response-Ability at SomoS [. . . ]”. curatorial essay written by Lena Johanna Reisner, exhibition catalogue published by SomoS Arts and Arts Council Korea
“Fever Dream” exhibition, Frieze Magazine
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
2024 [Upcoming] Artist Talk, Heidi Duckler Dance, The Bendix Building, Los Angeles, California
Artist Talk, Sappy Fest, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Jury Panelist, Bemis Center Sound Art + Experimental Music Fellowship
Artist Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Contributor, CAMPBIENT Volume 5, released as a LP vinyl record and also in digital formats under the imprint RealMoreReal
2023 Artist Talk, Hastings College, Omaha, Nebraska
Artist Talk, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
Artist Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Sound art workshop with Joy Moughanni, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FLo
2022 Artist Talk, GlogauAIR Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
Artist Talk, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture, Sisters, OR
Sound art workshop, Sisters Middle School, Sisters, OR
2021 Artist Talk, Anderson Arts Center Artist-in-Residence artist talk, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CA
2020 Artist Talk, MFA Thesis Show, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA
2018 Artist Talk, Basement Gallery, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis, CA