Joe Riley (b. 1990) is an artist, researcher, fabricator, and educator. He has participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2016-17), Art & Law Program (2018), and was a student organizer with Free Cooper Union. He has a BFA from Cooper Union (2013) and teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art and Steven’s Institute of Technology. Alongside Audrey Snyder he was a participant in the Fresh Kills Field R/D program, a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018-19), and participant in the Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program (2018-19).
Audrey Snyder (b.1991) is an artist and chef based in Brooklyn, NY. She has toured the United States by bicycle, sailed aboard Futurefarmer’s Seed Journey, and was a chef with Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project. Audrey received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (2013). She is a collaborator with the collective Futurefarmers and alongside Joe Riley she was a current participant in the Fresh Kills Field R/D program, a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018-19), and participant in the Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program (2018-19).
Joe Riley & Audrey Snyder are collaborators with one another and the artist collective Futurefarmers. Their art combines the poetic, political, and practical as a point of entry to explore urban and rural concourses. The work is site-specific and collaborative in nature, emphasizing anti-disciplinary practice and the of mastery of non-mastery. Joe and Audrey’s work through the Freshkills Field R/D Program considers the visibility and dispersal of NYC’s waste-export network in the wake of the 2001 closing of Fresh Kills Landfill; a navigation of the waste-stream. Their project Into the ground at Socrates Sculpture Park reflected on how urban ecologies uptake and transform contaminants, and collective bodies realize agency through ground-up organizing.
Joe Riley
Website: joeriley.work
Instagram: @pleasedontfront
Audrey Snyder:
Instagram: @audrey_snyder