Risha Gorig is a Brooklyn based multi media artist/composer/and choreographer. She has worked with site specific outdoor projects , performance dance pieces, musical performances, and video installations. She combines many of these elements that mix technology with fragility of humanity. She is interested in metaphors of time, death,and life.

Her work has an ethereal feeling to it other worldly.She uses images a lot of elements such as water, fire, and the wind in her pieces. All her work encompasses metaphors of our existence. She uses these whether it is in a film, a performance, a song or an installation. Critics have described her work as"Visually Stunning", and "Hauntingly melancholy and Out of this world". Strong emotions are evoked through her work.

Risha has performed through out the NYC area in places like (2012) Dixon place, Knitting Factory,( 2010) The Gowanus Canal art space, Site specific at (2008) Foley Square in Manhatten, (2000) Fulton Park in Dumbo, and many (2000-2008) galleries and (2011-2013)music venues.She also will perform in Germany at Madame Claude in Berlin and The Wye two upcoming shows in 2013.

2013
Rawartshow Williamsburg Brooklyn, MakeMusicNewYork, Parkside Lounge and moe

2012
Dixon Place New York, Parkside Lounge ,Knitting Factory and other small venues

2011
Zeitelvilla – Munich, Germany – Paintings and Poetry

collections

Museum Am Dom – Diozese, Wurzburg, Germany
Brad Ollenberg – Hampstead, New York
Hanz Seib – Private Collector – Wurzburg, Germany
Saal Muller – Private Collector – Wurzburg, Germany
Ossenberger – Private Collector – Germany

solo exhibitions

2001
Galerie De Miguel – Munich, Germany

1998
Foraum – Munich, Germany – Paintings

1998
Zeitelvilla – Munich, Germany – Paintings and Poetry

group exhibitions

2010
Brooklyn Independent Television-neighborhood beats Red Hook,Brooklyn-Risha Gorig artist interview

2009
“Space 414 Garden, Outdoor sculpture garden,Red Hook, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Independent Television-neighborhood beats –Red Hook,Brooklyn, “Space 414”
“Parallel Worlds”, ScalaMATA Exhibition
space, Venice, Ghetto detourment , part of Venice Biennale
Marktoberdorf Museum, Germany (July 24, 2009)
www.kuenstlerhaus-marktoberdorf.de

2008
Art In Spite Of It All – New York, New York – Outdoor Performance Piece
Apexart – New York, New York
Saatchi Online TV

2002
Art Fair – Madrid, Spain

2001
Art Fair – Turin, Italy
Visual Aids, New York, New York

2000
Fulton Park, Brooklyn Bridge Group Show – Brooklyn, New York

1999
Fountain - Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York