Curriculum Vitae
SOLO WORKS (SELECTED)
2022
The Possession Project, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin and tour to Kildare and Waterford
2021
They Come Then, The Birds, Rua Red Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2020
The Naked Hands, in collaboration with Deaf artists Paula Clarke and Jane O’Brien, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast (online)
Under the Stary Canopy, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, VISUAL Carlow (online)
2019
THIS PLACE; Bread & Roses, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Armagh;
The Ladder is always there, Contemporary Irish Art Centre, Los Angeles;
Iconic, Galeria Kunstcomplex, Wuppertal
2018
The Ladder is always there, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, US
Floats in the Aether, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Blue Hands, The Umbrellas of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2017
Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, The Peacock Theatre, Dublin
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, The Niemeyer Centre, Spain
Cowards X 6, Project Arts Centre, Dublin;
2016
Run to the Rock, The Mac, Belfast
Once More, Lyric Theatre, Belfast
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre & Limerick City Gallery of Art; The Passing reperformed, The Niemeyer Centre, Spain
2015
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, a live exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2014
You told me to wash and clean my ears, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Corpus - Smoking in Bolero, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
from thirteen to one, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013
SpitSpit, Scrub Scrub-reperformed, University of Ulster, Belfast;13 WOMEN, Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin
2012
LABOUR, a live exhibition, ]Performance Space[, London, The Void, Derry & The LAB, Dublin; Time, Time Time, Compass, Beacon Art Projects, UK; Yellow, the film, in collaboration with Paddy Cahill, premier @ Dublin Film Festival and tour.
2011
The Passing, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub, Dublin Contemporary
2010
Right Here, Right Now, Irish Performance Art live, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin; Yellow-Reperformed, St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin Theatre Festival; The Yellow Series, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2009
Yellow-Expanded, Tulca 09, Nun’s Island, Galway; Accumulator, VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow; The Performance Collective, Bedrock’s Garage, Fringe Festival, Dublin
2008
Amanda Coogan - Yellow, Trace, Cardiff; Yellow, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; Amanda Coogan, When time becomes form, Artist Space, New York;
2006
We are here, Docklands festival, Dublin
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
GROUP WORKS, (SELECTED)
2022
Future Forward, Collaboration with Sharon Kelly, QSS Artist's Studios and Gallery, Belfast; Yellow, IMMA; Gnawing on the Bones, reflections on Beuys, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Solidarity with Ukraine, collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, The Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Paddy Piece, First Forthnight Festival; Dublin; RHA Annual, Dublin.
2021
The Narrow Gates of Here and Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art; She Said, Rua Red for Cruinniú na nÓg (online)
2020
Cowards, Marina Abramovic Sky Arts take Over; Stacey Gregg's Flicking the *****, The Long Look, Royal Court, London; Where I am Now, Dublin Dance Festival (online)
2019
Embodiement - Galleria Stock, Vienna; Elliptical Affinities, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Diffraction - Performance videos, G126, Galway & Art Basel, Miami; GROUPSHOW, Galerie KUNSTKOMPLEX+MENNUNI, Basel, Switzerland; NEW&COMING, Galerie Kunstkomplex, Wuppertal, Germany
2018
Cowards, Steakhouse Live, Toynbee Studios, London; Acts to Objects, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Double Take, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Naked Truth, The Crawford Gallery, Cork. Junk Ensemble’s Dolores, Dublin Dance Festival;
2017
Silent Dinner, in collaboration with Shannon Cochrane, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow; ROSC 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Anu Production’s Sin Eaters, Dublin Theatre Festival; Cowards, University of Oviedo, Spain; Amanda Coogan: Long Now, a film by Paddy Cahill, Irish Film Institue, Dublin;
2016
Anu Production’s On Corporation Street, HOME, Manchester; A Different Republic, The LAB; A Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Carnage Visors, Rua Red, Dublin; As One, Benaki Museum, Athens; 2116, Glucksman Gallery, Cork & The Broad Museum, Michigan
2015
Performance Art + Northern Ireland, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; To Camera, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Smoking in Bolero, Live Collision Festival, Dublin; Silent Dinner, Summerworks Festival, Toronto 2014
Juvenilia,The Chocolate Performance-reperformed The Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Mobile Encounter, IMMA, Dublin; Smoking in Bolero, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; I’ll sing you a song from around the town I, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, Live Collision Festival, The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2013
Beethoven7, FIX13, Catalyst Arts, Belfast; ManHole, Insel Hombroich, Germany; Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin; Promenade, Imagine Art festival, Waterford; Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, North American tour.
2012
Bubble up in Blue, Bbeyond, Queens University, Belfast; Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, European tour; Molly Blooms, Joyce in the City: Dubliners, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; REMNANT(S), Ballina Arts, Centre, Mayo; Trans-Art Festival of Contemporary Art, Cavan; TENSE, Limerick City Gallery of Art.
2011
Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Manchester International Festival, (included performances of Coogan’s works:Yellow 2008 and Medea 2001); RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy; 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
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, traveling exhibition; Noughties but Nice, Limerick City Gallery of Art; DDD, Galeria Safia, Barcelona; Joyce’s Artistic Effects, The Tolstoy Estate, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
2009
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; The Yellow Mountain, Dingle Film Festival, Siamsa, Tralee; The Yellow Mountain, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
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
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; First and Last and Always, Breaking Ground, Ballymun
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; Flix Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Performance Loop, PS1, New York; Cleaning the House NMAC, Malaga; Corpus Limerick City Gallery of Art; Art4Amnesty Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
AWARDS
Markeivicz Award; Coogan was elected to Aosdána in 2021; An Post, Contermporary Art Definitive Stamp Collection; Arts Council of Ireland Project and Bursaries Awards; AIB Art Prize; EV+A International prize.
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection
Arts Council of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin
Glucksman Gallery of Art, Cork
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA
National Self Portrait Collection, Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art
EDUCATION
PhD: University of Ulster, 2013
Meisterschuler: Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany, 2000
Degree, Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1998
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
Marshall, Catherine & Scott, Yvonne (Ed.) Irish Art 1920 - 2029 perspectives on change, Royal Irish Academy, 2022
Gleeson, Sinéad, Viewfinders: Ways of Seeing at 50, Episode 4, BBC Radio 4, 2022
Boyle, Maoliosa, They Come Then, The Birds, Rua Red Press, 2021
Coulter, Riann, This Place, Millennium Court Arts Centre, 2020
Ruane, Aoife & Barber, Fionna, Eliptical Affinities, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2019
Carey, Helen & Stock Michela, Embodiment, Galleria Stock, 2019
Guy, Jennie & Lawless, Amie, A Different Republic, ADI and Firestation, 2018
Gonzales-Arias, Luz Mar, Amanda Coogan, Centro Niemeyer, 2017
Cahill, Paddy, The Long Now, A film on the durational Performance of Amanda Coogan, 2016
Murphy, Patrick, I’ll Sing you a Song from around the Town, RHA publications, 2016
The Works Presents Amanda Coogan, RTÉ One Television Documentary, 2015
Philips, Aine, Performance Art in Ireland, LADA & Intellect books, 2015
Barber, Fionna, Art in Ireland since 1910, Reaktion Books, 2013
Walsh, Helena & Healy, AnnMaria, Brutal Silences, Live Art Development Agency, 2011
Kelly, Noel & Kissane, Sean, Visual Artists Ireland, Creative Ireland, The Visual Arts, 2011
Mey, Kerstin, I.B.Tauris, Art And Obscenity, 2007
Little, Pippa, Limerick City Gallery of Art, re-Fresh, 2006
Kerber Verlag, MARTa Herford, (my private) Heroes, 2005
Jane Kallir, Van Gogh Museum, Egon Schiele, Love and Death, 2005
Patrick T. Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Eurojets Futures – An Anthology of emerging Art from Ireland, 2005
John O’Regan, Gandon Editions, Amanda Coogan – A Brick in the Handbag, 2005
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool Biennial 04, 2004
Marina Abramovic, Charta, Student Body, 2003
Peter Murray, Gandon Editions, Crawford Open 1-4, 2003
Patrick T. Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Eurojets Futures 02, 2002
Paul M. O’Reilly, Gandon Editions, EV+A 2002 Heroes and Holies, 2002
Marina Abramovic, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Marking the Territory, 2001
Paul M. O’Reilly, Gandon Editions, EV+A 99 Reduced, 1999
Coogan is represented by Galeria KunstKomlex, Wuppertal, Galeria Bardohl & Scheel, Berlin and Kunstcomplex + Mennuni, Basel.
