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 West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, The Litchfield Festival, UK 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.
See here for full CV for Coogan's work
In 2008 Coogan performed Yellow for 6 days at the Artists Space Gallery, New York and in 2009 she made her seminal durational performance, the Fall, over 17 days at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for the Manchester International Festival’s acclaimed exhibition Marina Abramovic presents.... Coogan curated the first live performance based exhibition in Ireland, Accumulator, for Carlow’s new Center for Contemporary Art; VISUAL. In 2010 Coogan co-curated a group exhibition of twenty Irish live performance artists for Right Here, Right Now in Dublin’s historic building Kilmainham Gaol.
Her practice is represented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s collection, The National Self Portrait Collection and the AIB art collection. She is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. Coogan is currently working with the Theatre director Robert Wilson on his production of ‘The Life and death of Marina Abramovic’ where two of Coogan's works are quoted; Yellow and Medea.
In 2011 Coogan made a 24 hour performance, The Passing, in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for the opening of their Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art and a two month long live performance and installation for Dublin Contemporary; Spit, Spit, Scrub, Scrub.
Coogan's practice is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin www.kevinkavanagh.ie
for further information: info@amandacoogan.com or info@kevinkavanagh.ie
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 West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, The Litchfield Festival, UK 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.
See here for full CV for Coogan's work
In 2008 Coogan performed Yellow for 6 days at the Artists Space Gallery, New York and in 2009 she made her seminal durational performance, the Fall, over 17 days at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for the Manchester International Festival’s acclaimed exhibition Marina Abramovic presents.... Coogan curated the first live performance based exhibition in Ireland, Accumulator, for Carlow’s new Center for Contemporary Art; VISUAL. In 2010 Coogan co-curated a group exhibition of twenty Irish live performance artists for Right Here, Right Now in Dublin’s historic building Kilmainham Gaol.
Her practice is represented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s collection, The National Self Portrait Collection and the AIB art collection. She is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. Coogan is currently working with the Theatre director Robert Wilson on his production of ‘The Life and death of Marina Abramovic’ where two of Coogan's works are quoted; Yellow and Medea.
In 2011 Coogan made a 24 hour performance, The Passing, in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for the opening of their Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art and a two month long live performance and installation for Dublin Contemporary; Spit, Spit, Scrub, Scrub.
Coogan's practice is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin www.kevinkavanagh.ie
for further information: info@amandacoogan.com or info@kevinkavanagh.ie
