Amanda Coogan is a performance artist living in Dublin, Ireland. The centrality of Coogan’s practice is durational live performance where powerful live events are fundamental to her videos and photographs. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Coogan’s recent practice has been concentrating on the longitudinal durational performance presented as living installation in the gallery.
Coogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work both nationally and Internationally including The Venice Biennale 03, Liverpool Biennial 04, PS1, New York, Galeria Safia, Barcelona, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Trace Gallery, Cardiff, The Litchfield Festival, Litchfield and MARTa Museum, Herford. In 2005 Coogan published the first monograph on her practice, A brick in the handbag in conjunction with her solo show at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Last year Coogan performed for 6 days at the Artists Space gallery New York. In July this year she will make a 17 day performance at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for the Manchester International festival’s Marina Abramovic presents... exhibition.