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Shannon Rose Riley is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis (2006), an MFA in Studio Art (Performance, Video, Installation) from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1998), a BFA in Sculpture and Art History from Maine College of Art (1995) as well as broad undergraduate training in the arts and humanities at the University of Notre Dame, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist with ISMETA. Riley is the author of Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, & US Culture, 1898-1940 (Palgrave, 2016). She is co-editor, with Sondra Fraleigh, of Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (Routledge, 2024)) and co-editor, with Lynette Hunter, of Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (Palgrave, 2009). Her visual and performance works have been exhibited/staged internationally at numerous venues, including the ICA (Portland ME), Mobius (Boston), Randolph Street Gallery and Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), the Cushwa-Leighton Library (Notre Dame IN), Performance Studies International (PSi) in Mainz Germany (2001) and Stanford (2013), the Festival Nacional de Pequeño Formato (Santa Clara Cuba, 2006) and Month of Performance Art-Berlin (2013). She performs and records with the Chicago-based group, ONO. Their latest album, Red Summer, (May 2020) is on American Dreams Records. Riley is a Professor of Creative Arts and Humanities and the Director of the Dance Program at San José State University.
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