Amanda Coogan

Amanda Coogan was born in 1963. She is at the forefront of live performance art in Ireland.

She was awarded the AIB prize 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work both nationally and internationally including The Venice Biennale 03; Liverpool Biennal 04; PS1, New York; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Galeria Safia, Barcelona; IMMA & RHA, Dublin; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Asiatopia, Bangkok; VISUAL, Carlow; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the 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.

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Education

2009-present Phd candidate: University of Ulster

1999-2001 Meisterschuler: Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany

1997-1998 Degree: National College of Art and Design, Dublin

1994-1995 Visiting Student: The School of Fine Art, Athens

1989-1992 Diploma: Limerick School of Art and Design


Solo exhibitions

2010 The Yellow Series, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

2009 Yellow-Expanded, Tulca 09, Nun’s Island, Galway

The fall, 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, Cardiff

2007 Amanda Coogan, 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 exhibitions (Selected)

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, Limerick, traveling 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

2002 Eurojets Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Eigse Arts Festival, CIT, Carlow

Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

EV+A, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

2001 Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin


Curator/ Artist Exhibitions

2009 Accumulator, VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

The Performance Collecive, Bedrock’s Gargae, Fringe Festival, Dublin

2006 We are here, Docklands festival, Dublin


Performance events and festivals

2010 Yellow-reperformed, Marys Abbey, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin

vSnails, After Alice Maher, Altered Images, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2009 Cutpiece, Points d’Impact, 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 Recontre Internationale D’Art Performance 2006, Quebec City

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

2002 Marina Abramovic: Cleaning the House, CAGC, Santiago de Compestela


Awards

2010 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award

2006/2009 Arts Council of Ireland, Commisioning Grant

2005/2010 Arts Council of Ireland, Travel award

2004 Ailied Irish Bank’s Art Prize

2002/2006 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary

2002 EV+A, Award winner


Collections

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Aillied Irish Bank Collection, Dublin

National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick

Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

Private Collections

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