about « Michael Rioux : maker of things

Michael Rioux (Chicago/Seattle) is a creative. Recent projects include performing with Scott/Powell Performance, Salt Horse and Lingo. Current projects include directing the performance group The Sho, an ongoing collage series entitled Ha Ha, No But Seriously, a poem entitled The Manna Found, created by erasing a Henry David Thoreau text, and constantly thinking about how to make things better. Michael received his BFA in printmaking and video from Cornish College of the Arts. He has done lots of beautiful things for lots of impressive people. His concern is to be full of joy and full of discovery.

artist statement:

read Reality Hunger by David Shields / I need say nothing, only exhibit / here everything is admissible / mixed form / the right to lie / form that relies on both art and fact, on imagination and observation, rumination and argumentation, human faith and human perception / we journey increasingly across boundaries, along borders, into fringes, and finally through our yearning to quest, where only more questions are found; through our primal senses, where we record every wonder; through our own burning hearts, where we know better / a lie that enables us to recognize truth / insists on itself / consciousness contending with experience / so that I’ll see what I’ve seen / I seek to fill a place that once had meaning with meaning again / we are all in flight from reality / take what works and discard the rest / …

Michael Rioux

www.michaelrioux.com
mikeyrioux@gmail.com
206/914/4965

Education

1997 River North Dance Chicago / Apprentice
1999 – 2000 University of Arizona / Dance
2006 – 2008 Cornish College of the Arts / BFA Magna Cum Laude, printmaking, video

Solo Exhibitions

2000 Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea / Tucson, AZ / painting
2001 Delectables Deli / Geneva, IL / painting
2006 Rosebud Restaurant & Bar / Seattle, WA / photography
2008 BUFU Gallery / Seattle, WA / painting
2008 22 Doors / Seattle, WA / photography
2009 Cafe Zingaro / Seattle, WA / printmaking
2009 Porchlight Cafe / Seattle, Wa / mixed media
2009 W.E.T. / Seattle, WA / mixed media
2009 Cornish Alumni Gallery / Seattle, WA / installation

Group Exhibitions

1999 Gallery 129 / Geneva, IL / painting
2004 The Paint Factory / Chicago, IL / painting
2008 Some Space Gallery / Seattle, WA / printmaking
2009 Cornish College of the Arts BFA exhibit / Seattle, WA / printmaking
2009 Canoe Social Club / Seattle, WA / mixed media
2009 Vermillion / Seattle, WA / Sculpture
2009 PONCHO Auction, Western Bridge / Seattle, WA / printmaking

Performance (selected)

1996 Jump Rhythm Jazz / Chicago
1997 – 1999 River North Dance Chicago / Chicago
2001 – 2005 Impetus Dance Theater / Chicago (Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer)
2002 – 2005 Mordine & Co. / Chicago
2002 – 2005 Lucky Plush Productions / Chicago
2004 – 2005 Luna Negra Dance Theater / Chicago
2006 – The Sho Performance / Seattle (solo project: installation and video)
2009 – Salt Horse / Seattle
2009 – Scott/Powell Performance / Seattle
2010 – Lingo Dance / Seattle

Choreography (selected)

2001 – 2005 Impetus Dance Theater / Chicago
2004 Giordano’s Jazz Dance Chicago / Chicago
2004 Mordine & Co. Dance Theater / Chicago
2006 Instruments of Movement / Chicago
2007 Lehua Dance Theater / Seattle
2008 Cornish Dance Theater / Seattle
2009 SD Prism Dance / Seattle

Teaching (selected)

2002 – 2005 Lou Conte Dance Studio / Chicago
2006 The School of Spectrum Dance Theater / Seattle
2007 – 2009 Velocity Dance Center / Seattle
2007 – 2009 SD Prism Dance / Seattle