Casey Riordan is an American artist based in Cincinnati. She works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and publication.
Early life and education Casey Riordan obtained a bachelor's degree in fine art in 1994 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Career and practice Riordan works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and publication. She aims in her work to "create a temporary distraction from the weight of oneself”.
Riordan's artwork has been displayed in various cities and states such as Cincinnati, Ohio, Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The majority of Riordan's pieces include her original character, Shark Girl.
Shark Girl Riordan's character, Shark Girl, appears in many of her illustrations, paintings, and sculptures. Shark Girl is a young girl with the head of a shark created in 2004. She was a way for Riordan to "reflect her own anxieties". A fiberglass sculpture of Shark Girl was built for the Ohio River Downtown with a $6,000 grant in 2012. Visitors used the piece as a photo-op, turning it to have the Ohio River in the background. Around Easter 2014, visitors began to deface Shark Girl with graffiti. The city left repairs in Riordan's hands. Soon after, Aaron Ott, the public art curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo purchased the sculpture and the museum created a fund to maintain it. The sculpture was moved to Buffalo, where it became a popular local landmark.
A 4-minute YouTube video published in 2013 entitled "Come Follow Me" features Shark Girl. The video, created for Riordan's 2012 installation at the Contemporary Arts Center's UnMuseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, follows Shark Girl on a journey leading her to a horse, which is also featured as a sculpture in the installation. The video features drawings and animation by Riordan, with editing and co-direction by Ossian Mendoza and music by John Aselin.
Shark Girl is the title character in Riordan Millard's 2014 children's book Shark Girl & Belly Button.
Exhibitions Upcoming ExhibitionsAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York July 2017 Solo ExhibitionsArtWorks, Kennedy Heights Arts Center Annex, Cincinnati, Ohio2016Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Canalside, Buffalo, New York2015Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky2014Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio2013Findlay Street Project Space, Cincinnati, Ohio2013Cincinnati Recreation Commission, Yeatman's Cove, Cincinnati, Ohio2013UnMuseum, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio2012PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio2011Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2011Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana2011Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio2009Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2008The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky2008Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2006 Group ExhibitionsFaculty Art Show, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio2016Escape Hatch Collective, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio2015The Fine Art of Illustration, Gallery One One, Cincinnati, Ohio2014Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana2013SOFA Chicago, with the Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2012John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin2010PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio2010Summerfair Group Exhibition, Funkes Fired Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio2010For the Birds, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky201020 Years/20 Artists, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio2010UTurn Gallery, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Cincinnati, Ohio2010Evanston Arts Center, Once Upon a Time and Now, Evanston, Illinois2009Fuller Craft Museum, The Perfect Fit, Brockton, Massachusetts2009Fine arts Fund, Enjoy the Arts 20/20 Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio2008Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Arts Council juried show, Columbus, Ohio2008Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2008Bridge Art Fair, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Miami, Florida2007Music Show II, through Publico Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio2007Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2007Gen Art, Ignite! 2006 Chicago, Chicago, Illinois2006Art Chicago, with the Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2006University of Cincinnati, WordArt, Cincinnati, Ohio2005Aron Packer Gallery, Four, Chicago, Illinois2005The Affordable Art Fair, with the Aron Packer Gallery, NYC, New York2004Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois2003
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