Courtney Rile was selected as the 2025 UVP Regional Commission artist for her proposal In Conversation, which explores Central New York’s important role as a birthplace of video art. Rile will create new work in dialogue with pieces by Bill Viola, Nam June Paik, Peter Campus, Aldo Tambellini, and Shigeko Kubota exhibited at the Everson Museum in the 1970s.

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About the Artist

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Courtney Rile is a lens-based artist and Co-Founder of Daylight Blue Media, a video production company in Syracuse, New York. Rile is a 2025 recipient of The Everson Museum of Art Central New York Artist Initiative and Urban Video Project Regional Commission. In recent years she has received a NYSCA Individual Artist Regrant for a project about the history of video art in Syracuse. She has also been commissioned as a video artist by the Society for New Music. She holds a BFA in Art Video from Syracuse University. 

Rile’s photographs, documentary films, and experimental videos have been shown widely regionally and internationally. Rile previously served in communications and curatorial roles at Delavan Art Gallery, CNY Arts, Salt Market, and many other initiatives, alongside work as a writer, adjunct professor, and guest speaker.

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