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Amanda Coogan AMANDA COOGAN www.amandacoogan.com ARTIST STATEMENT Amanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art, performance, photography and video. Her 2015 exhibition in the Dublin's Royal Hibernian Academy, I’ll sing you a song from around the Town, was described by Artforum as 'performance art at its best'. In 2010 the Irish Times said, 'Coogan, whose work usually entails ritual, endurance and cultural iconography, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country'. Coogan’s expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that challenge expected contexts. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Coogan holds a degree in sculpture from Dublin’s National College of Art and Design. She was a Masters student of Marina Abramovic at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Germany and received her PhD from the University of Ulster in 2013. She is an occasional lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Limerick School of Art and Design; The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin; Dublin Institute of Technology and Crawford College of Art, Cork. Among many awards Coogan recieved the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work extensively including the Broad Museum, Michigan; MOCA, Jacksonville; The Neimeyer Centre, Spain; The MAC, Belfast; Lismore Arts, Waterford; HOME mrc, Manchester; The Golden Thread, Belfast; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Venice Biennale; Liverpool Biennial; The LAB, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art; PS1, New York; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; National Gallery, Dublin; West Cork Arts Centre; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. .
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