Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2019 - 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
2017 - I’ll sing you a song from around the town, The Niemeyer Centre, Spain
2016 - 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, RHA, Dublin
2014 - Corpus, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; from thirteen to one, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, (SELECTED)
2020 - THIS PLACE; Bread & Roses, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown.
2019 - Embodiement - Galleria Stock, Vienna; Elliptical Affinities, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Diffraction - Performance videos, G126, Galway, Art Basel, Miami.
2018 - Floats in the Aether, National Gallery of Ireland; Acts to Objects, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Double Take, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Naked Truth, The Crawford Gallery, Cork. Floats in the Aether, National Gallery of Ireland.
2017 - ROSC 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2016 - A Different Republic, The LAB; A Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Museum of August Destiny, Lismore Castle Arts: Waterford; 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
2014 - Juvenilia, The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast; Mobile Encounter: Documenting the early years of performance art in Ireland, IMMA, Dublin
2013 - Beethoven7, FIX13, Catalyst Arts, Belfast; ManHole, Insel Hombroich, Germany; Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2012 - REMNANT(S), Ballina Arts, Centre, Mayo; TENSE, Limerick City Gallery of Art 2011 - The Passing, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub, Dublin Contemporary
LIVE WORKS (SELECTED)
2018 -Dolores, Dublin Dance Festival Hands in Blue, The Umberellas of Phnom Penh; Cowards, Steakhouse Live, Toynbee Studios, London.
2017 - Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady, The Peacock Theatre, Dublin; Sin Eaters, Anu, Dublin Theatre Festival; Cowards, Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Cowards, University of Oviedo, Spain; Silent Dinner, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow
2016 - Run to the Rock, The Mac, Belfast; Once More, Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Anu Production’s On Corporation Street, HOME, Manchester
2015 - Smoking in Bolero, Live Collision Festival, Dublin; Silent Dinner, Summerworks Festival with FADO, Toronto
2014 - The Chocolate Performance-Re-performed, The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast; You told me to wash and clean my ears, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, The Project Arts Centre, Fringe Festival, Dublin; Smoking in Bolero, CCI, Paris; I’ll sing you a song from around the town, in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, 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, North American tour
2012 - Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, European tour; Molly Blooms, Joyce in the City: Dubliners, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; Bubble up in Blue, Bbeyond, Queens University, Belfast; Time, Time Time, Compass, Beacon Art Projects, UK; LABOUR, a live exhibition, ]Performance Space[, London, The Void, Derry & The LAB, Dublin
EDUCATION
PhD: University of Ulster, 2013
Meisterschuler: Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany, 2000
Degree: National College of Art and Design, Dublin,1998
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2018
RDS VISUAL ARTS AWARD, Dublin
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 Collective, Bedrock’s Garage, Fringe Festival, Dublin
2006
We are here, Docklands Festival, Dublin
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
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
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, Centre 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, 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
Coogan is represented by Galeria KunstKomlex, Wuppertal, Galeria Bardohl & Scheel, Berlin and Kunstcomplex + Mennuni, Basel.
