Amanda Coogan CV
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Home Address: 48 Sharman road, Stranmillis, Belfast BT9 5FX Studio Address: QSS, The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast BT5 5AA Tel: 00 353 864091669 Email: [email protected] Website: www.amandacoogan.com Amanda Coogan Amanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art, performance, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said, 'Coogan, whose work usually entails ritual, endurance and cultural iconography, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country'. Her extraordinary work is challenging, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted, and challenge ex- pected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. The body, as a site of resistance, is the centrality of Coogan's work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects, Text, moving and still image, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very es- sence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan's prac- tice, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational as- pect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpre- dicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. Coogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work, including at The Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, PS1; New York, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC, Belfast; The Golden Thread, Belfast; The Niemeyer, Aviles. She delivered two large- scale live art exhibitions in the National Gallery of Ireland and the Museum of Con- temporary Art, Jacksonville in late 2018. Her 2015 live exhibition; I'll sing you a song from around the town, was described by Artforum as 'performance art at its best'. SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 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 Ka- vanagh Gallery, Dublin 1! of 3! GROUP EXHIBITIONS, (SELECTED) 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; 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: Docu- menting the early years of performance art in Ireland, IMMA, Dublin 2013 - Beethoven7, FIX13, Catalyst Arts, Belfast; ManHole, Insel Hombroich, Ger- many; 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 Pro- duction’s On Corporation Street, HOME, Manchester 2015 - Smoking in Bolero, Live Collision Festival, Dublin; Silent Dinner, Summerworks Fes- tival 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 The- atre 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 2! of 3! 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) 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 publi- cations, 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, Remembrances: 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 AWARDS AND PRIZES Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award 2017, 2014 British Council, Shakespeare Lives Award, 2016 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award, 2013 University of Ulster Vice Chancellor grant, 2009 - 2013 AIB Art Prize, 2005 EV+A Artist Award, 2003 COLLECTIONS Coogan’s work is included in a number of Public and Private Collections including; The Irish Museum of Modern Art University College Cork Trinity College, Dublin The Arts Council of Ireland The National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick Limerick City Gallery of Art 3! of 3!.