CV JULIA EDITH RIGBY jrigby762 [at] gmail [dot] com ︱ www.juliaedithrigby.com
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2026 (Upcoming), FCCLA, Los Angeles (pipe organ, viola, piano, field recordings), with Kafele Williams, Resonance Collective Golden Thread Concert Series
(Upcoming), West Oakland Sound Series, Oakland (piano, viola, field recordings)
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, Los Angeles (pipe organ, piano, viola, field recordings), Open Gate Concert Series
The Chapel Performance Space, Force of Listening #5, Wayward Music Series, Seattle, Washington (with NINA NINA, Amber Cortes and Kafele Williams; viola, electrical circuits)
2025 The Chapel Performance Space, Force of Listening #4, Wayward Music Series, Seattle, Washington (piano, viola)
316 Centro, Mexico City, Mexico (with NINA NINA and Kafele Williams; viola)
2024 Life Cycle of a Fever Dream, opera, The Bendix Building, hosted by Heidi Duckler Dance, Los Angeles, CA
Felt Noise, Sappyfest, Mount Allison University Chapel, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada (with Rita McKeough, Ursula Sukół and Alec Brilling; pipe organ, viola)
Fever Dream, live performance at solo opening, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (viola, sound sculpture)
Swell Organ—Variations, LEAF Festival (Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival), Center for Musical Arts, Lafayette, CO (with Amy Biondo; viola, field recordings)
Como Se Marchita Una Rosa, Chembech Barra de Escucha, Merida, Mexico (with NINA NINA and La Extrañeza; viola)
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 at Sound Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Sea Cave, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smryna Beach, FL
One Beat Fellowship Performance Series, Toulouse Theater, New Orleans
2021 Performing Arts Symposium, Performance Studies PhD Symposium, Della Theater, 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 Theater, Davis CA
Residue II, performed for Stage, Staged, Staging: Stretching the Borders of Theater and Performance, Performance Studies PhD Symposium, Della Theater, Davis, CA
First Drafts, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis CA
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Echofluxx 25: International Festival of Film and Music, St. Clements, Prague, Czech Republic
Recess: LEAF Festival (Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival), Collective Community Arts Center, Lafayette, CO
2024 Fever Dream, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (solo exhibition)*
The Eternal Network, Berlin Art Week, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany
SoundPedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 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
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)
2019 Afterflow, with Christopher Azevedo, MFA Studio Gallery, Davis, CA (two-person show)
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
Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 Home-land, Galerie Sehnsucht, The Netherlands
Snap, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Inverness Almanac Retrospective, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2015 New Works, Skulduggerie Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
RESIDENCIES
2027 (Upcoming) Cité internationale des arts, Paris
(Upcoming) Cycladic Arts, Greece
2025 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Cascade Head, OR
2024 CAMPBIENT, Seattle, WA
2023 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Art + Experimental Music 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
EDUCATION
2020 University of California, Davis, M.F.A. in Art Studio, Department of Art and Art History, phi kappa phi, Davis, CA
2019 Welding Certification, FCAW, MIG, American Welding Society
2012 Scripps College, B.A. in Environmental Writing, Honors, magna cum laude, Claremont, CA
ACHIEVEMENTS
2026 Cycladic Arts Fellowship, Greece
2025 (Finalist) AIR Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2024 Arts New Brunswick, Performance Grant for Sappyfest, Sackville, New Brunswick
LA County Department of Arts and Culture Grant
2023 Sound Art + Experimental Music Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Artist Grant, awarded by the Center for Cultural Innovation
One Beat Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and One Beat / Found Sound Nation
2020 Fay Nelson Award, awarded by the University of California, Davis Department of Art and Art History
2019 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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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
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
PRESS
“The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, July 2025”, by Matthew Blackwell, August 6, 2025
“The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2025”, by Matthew Blackwell, March 05, 2025
“’Life Cycle of a Fever Dream’: Opera mixes climate grief with hope and wonder,” by Bridgette M. Redman, Contributing Writer, LA Downtown News, November 4, 2024
“Opera Goes Immersive: ‘Life Cycle of a Fever Dream’ Mixes Climate Grief, Animal Sounds, Rooftop Views,” by Kaye Lai, Classicalite, November 5, 2024
“Heidi Duckler Is Los Angeles’ “Queen of Site-Specific Dance”, by Victoria Looseleaf, San Francisco Classical Voice, November 13, 2024
“Julia Rigby: Fever Dream”, Announcing Solo Exhibition at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA, Frieze Magazine, June / July / August 2024 Issue.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“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
DISCOGRAPHY
Sea Cave Breathing II (Pipe organ, piano, viola, field recordings, electronics, sound sculpture). 2025. Bandcamp.
Sea Cave Breathing I (Opera. Pipe organ, piano, viola, vocals, field recordings, electronics, sound sculpture). 2025. Bandcamp.
Life Cycle of a Fever Dream (Opera. Cello, viola, violin, sousaphone, saxophone, French horn, tuba, piano, voice, geophone, sound sculpture, field recordings). 2024. Bandcamp.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
2026 Artist talk, Cal State Fullerton, CA
Co-Curator, Force of Listening #5, Wayward Music Series, Performance at The Chapel Performance Space, Seattle, Washington
Co-Facilitator, CAMPBIENT Artist Residency, WA
2025 Artist Talk, Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology, Otis, OR
Co-Facilitator, CAMPBIENT Artist Residency
2024 Artist Talk, Heidi Duckler Dance, The Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, Sappyfest, 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, NE
Artist Talk, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Artist Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Sound art workshop with Joy Moughanni, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL
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