Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2016
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2015
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, RHA, Dublin
2014
Corpus, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
from thirteen to one, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013
SpitSpit, Scrub Scrub-reperformed, University of Ulster,
Belfast School of Art
2010
Yellow-Reperformed, St Mary’s Abbey,
Dublin Theatre Festival
The Yellow Series, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2009
Yellow-Expanded, Tulca 09, Nun’s Island, Galway
Amanda Coogan, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2008
Yellow, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
Amanda Coogan, When time becomes form, Artist Space, New York
Amanda Coogan - Yellow, Trace Gallery, Cardiff
2007
The Madonna Series, Galeria Safia, Barcelona
2005
A brick in the Handbag The Void, Derry & Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2004
Ulysees # 3, Molly Context Gallery, Derry
Amanda Coogan West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
Curator/Artist Exhibitions
2016
Once More, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
2014
ReFraming the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
2012
Time, Time Time, Compass, Beacon Art Projects, UK
LABOUR, a live exhibition, ]Performance Space[, London, The Void, Derry & The LAB, Dublin
2010
Right Here, Right Now, Irish Performance Art live, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
2009
Accumulator, VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
The Performance Collecive, Bedrock’s Garage, Fringe Festival, Dublin
2006
We are here, Docklands festival, Dublin
Group Exhibitions
2016
‘A Decade’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘Carnage Visors’, Rua Red, Dublin
'As One', Benaki Museum, Athens
2116, Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2015
Performance Art + Northern Ireland, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
To Camera, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2014
Juvenilia, The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast
Mobile Encounter: Documenting the early years of performance art in Ireland, IMMA, Dublin
Venice International Performance Week, LADA, Venice
2013
Beethoven7, FIX13, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
ManHole, Insel Hombroich, Germany
Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2012
REMNANT(S), Ballina Arts, Centre, Mayo
Trans-Art Festival of Contemporary Art, Cavan
TENSE, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2011
The Passing, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin
RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
The Colours - Yellow, SOMA Contemporary, Waterford
‘out to sea was a boat full of people singing’ and other stories, The Lab, Dublin
Altered Images, Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork & The Regional Cultural Center, Letterkenny
2010
DDD, Galeria Safia, Barcelona
Joyce’s Artistic Effects, The Tolstoy Estate, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
PerformanceiS Galway Arts Centre
Shop if you can, look if you want, Temple Bar, St Patrick’s Day Festival
Altered Images, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (touring exhibition)
Noughties but Nice, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, (touring exhibition)
2009
The Yellow Mountain, Dingle Film Festival, Siamsa, Tralee
The Yellow Mountain, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
Real Time, Real Documents, Whitworth Gallery of Art, Manchester
The Fall, Marina Abramovic Presents... Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Fruitcakesandfurrycollars, Bridge House Bed and Breakfast, Skibereen
Stupid Generation, Kunst Projects, Berlin
2008
10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the members of Business to Arts, IMMA, Dublin
Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Art, Bangkok Art and Culture Center
2007
Colony @ Zoo Art Fair, London
Tension, Art Trail, Cork Film Centre, Cork
Terms and Conditions, The Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow
Virgin, Lover, Mother, Whore, The Granary Theatre, Cork
Beckett’s Ghosts, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Death and Desire, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
who is your friends?/the soap operas, Soap Gallery, Kokura, Japan
2006
First and Last and Always, Breaking Ground, Ballymun
Adoration, A Shelter in a time of Storm, Lichfield Festival, Lichfield
re Fresh, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick & WCAC, Cork
Colony @ Birmingham School of Business, Birmingham
Black: Implication Flooding, Colony, Birmingham
Breath, Samuel Beckett, Bedrock Productions, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2005
Variety De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
Aishling, Kilkenny Arts Festival Kilkenny
Eurojets, The Anthology Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Galleria Amore Galleria Civic, Trento
Gifted Generation Hebbel Theatre, Berlin
(my private) Heroes MARTa Museum, Herford, Germany
Stay Lady Stay, Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self Control Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Living Landscape West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
2004
Liverpool Biennial International 04 Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
Flix Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Performance Loop, PS1, New York
Cleaning the House NMAC, Malaga
Corpus Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Art4Amnesty Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2003
Reading Beethoven, Location, PlayForum Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin
Flix Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Student Body, CGAC, Santiago de Compestela
Live Performances and festivals
2016
On Corproation Street. Anu Productions, HOMEmcr, Manchester
The Passing, The Niemeyer Centre, Aviles, Spain
2015
Smoking in Bolero, Live Collision Festival, Dublin
Silent Dinner, FADO, Toronto
2014
The Chocolate Performance-Re-performed, The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast
you told me to wash and clean my ears, The Project Arts Centre, Fringe Festival, Dublin
Smoking in Bolero, CCI, Paris
13 WOMEN, Undisclosed Territory 8, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia
13 WOMEN, Taylorfest, Carlow
13 WOMEN, Engage Arts Festival, Bandon
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, Live Collision Festival, The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2013
13 WOMEN, Hugh Lane, Dublin Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin
Promenade, Imagine Art festival, Waterford
Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, American tour
2012
Yellow, an ArtFilm, Sound and Vision Film Festival, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, European tour
Molly Blooms – live performance, Joyce in the City: Dubliners, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
Bubble up in Blue, Live performance, Bbeyond, Queens University, Belfast
2011
Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Manchester International Festival 2011, (included performances of Coogan’s works: Yellow 2008 and Medea 2001)
The Performance Collective, The Broadcast Gallery, Dublin
Potatoes, The School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Potatoes, Pathological Aestheics, Hans University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010
Adoration, Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
Snails, After Alice Maher, Altered Images, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2009
Cutpiece, Points d’Impact, festival of performance art, MAMCO, Geneva
The Performance Collective Catalyst Arts Center, Belfast
The Benshi Project, Project brand New, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2008
Straylight Festival, Dublin
How to explain the Sea to an uneaten potatoe, Promenade, Out of Site, Bull Walk, Dublin
2006
Mary Magdelene, Recontre Internationale D’Art Performance 2006, Quebec City
Mary Magdelene, Third Performance Biennial Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
2005
Halloween Galleria Illy, New York
Bodily Functions Cork 2005, Cork
Alive Alive Budva Grad Theatre Event, Montenegro
Bloomsday Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2003
Asiatopia Concrete House, Bangkok
Recycling the Future Venice Biennale, Venice
As soon as possible PAC, Milan
Collections
The Arts Council of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,
Aillied Irish Bank Collection, Dublin,
National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick,
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick,
Private Collections
Prizes & Awards
British Council Shakespeare Reworked 2015
Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award 2010 & 2011 & 2014
Arts Council of Ireland, Commisioning Grant 2006 & 2009
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel award 2005 & 2010
Ailied Irish Bank’s Art Prize 2004
Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary 2002 & 2006 & 2013
EV+A, Award winner 2002
Education
Phd candidate: University of Ulster, 2009 – 2013
Meisterschuler: Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany,1999- 2001
Degree: National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1997-1998
Visiting Student: The School of Fine Art, Athens, 1994-1995
Diploma: Limerick School of Art and Design, 1989 - 1992
Bibliography
Murphy, Patrick, I’ll Sing you a Song from around the Town-Amanda Coogan, RHA publications, 2016
Barber, Fionna, Art in Ireland since 1910, Reaktion Books, 2013 pp. 249, 260-262
Kelly, Noel & Kissane, Sean, Visual Artists Ireland, Creative Ireland, The Visual Arts, 2011
Morales Ladron, Marisol, Elices Agudo, Juan F. (ed) Glocal Ireland, Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts, Cambridge Scholars, 2011 p. 229 -243
O’Byrne, Robert, Plurabelle Publishing, Dictionary of Living Irish Artists, 2010 p. 60-61
Bbeyond, Pani, Performance Art Northern Ireland, 2010
Orrell, Paula, Prestel, Marina Abramovic + The Future of Performance Art, 2010
Davoren, Ann, West Cork Arts Centre, Living Landscape, 2010
Farrell, Carrissa, VISUAL, Center for Contemporary Art, 2010
Brady, Sara, Walsh, Fintan (ed) Crossroads, Performance Studies and Irish Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 pp. 180 – 195
Antosik Parson, Kate, Rememberances: the performance of memory in recent works by Amanda Coogan, Artefact, Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, Issue 3, 2009
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Altered Images, IMMA, 2009, p.12-27
Mey, Kerstin, I.B.Tauris, Art And Obscenity, 2007 p.31-32
Little, Pippa, Limerick City Gallery of Art, re-Fresh, 2006
Kerber Verlag, MARTa Herford, (my private) Heroes, 2005 p. 66
Jane Kallir, Van Gogh Museum, Egon Schiele, Love and Death, 2005 p.169
Patrick T. Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Eurojets Futures – An Anthology of emerging Art from Ireland, 2005, p. 20-21
John O’Regan, Gandon Editions A Brick in the Handbag, 2005
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Marina Abramovic, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Marking the Territory, 2001, Video Catalogue.