Julia Edith Rigby

Julia Edith Rigby is a multi-disciplinary artist from California who thinks about entangled relationships among people, landscapes, non-humans and natural processes. She works with found materials and found sites to explore the phenomenology of place and sound. Her process hybridizes light art, sound art, acoustic ecology and sculpture to explore sensory perception and sense of place. Her audiovisual installations and experimental compositions research ways of collaborating and and co-creating with non-humans and natural processes. She builds interactive, site-responsive installations that engage with the landscape and situate the viewer as performer.

Rigby is a recipient of a Quick Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a OneBeat Fellowship from OneBeat and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has been an artist in residence at GlougauAIR Artist Residency in Berlin, PLAYA Summer Lake, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Kala Art Institute, and others. She has exhibited work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin. Rigby received her MFA in Studio Art at the University of California, Davis (2020), where she was a recipient of the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the Fay Nelson Award.