Amanda Coogan

Amanda Coogan (born 1971) is an Irish performance artist, living and working in Dublin. She studied under the performance artist Marina Abramović at the HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany. In her performance art, she produces video and photographs from live performances. Her work often begins with her own body and often challenges the expectations born of context.

Amanda Coogan
Born1971
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity of Ulster; Limerick School of Art and Design; Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece; National College of Art and Design, Dublin; HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste
Known forPerformance art
Websitehttp://www.amandacoogan.com/

Early life

Coogan was born in Dublin. She studied Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, and Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and under the performance artist Marina Abramović at the HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany. She received her PhD from the University of Ulster in 2013.[1]

Career

In her performance art, she produces video and photographs from live performances. Her work often begins with her own body and often challenges the expectations born of context. Not deaf herself, she is a first language signer and in one striking work she dances to Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," while signing the lyrics. In a more recent work, produced for the Liverpool Biennial, she filmed local people headbanging to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy."

Coogan has exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, was an award winner at EV+A 2002 in Limerick, was selected by the Royal Hibernian Academy for the Eurojets Futures exhibition in 2003, and was an invited participant in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. The Limerick City Gallery of Art hosted an exhibition of her installation work in 2005. [2]

During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic she worked on a project about the Wrens of the Curragh.[3]

Notable performances

Coogan has had numerous solo exhibitions, including:

References
  1. "GradCam, Amanda Coogan PhD" Retrieved 22 February 2017
  2. Liam Collins, "A truly candid camera reveals Amanda Coogan's body of art" irish Independent January 23 2005.
  3. "Postcards From The Pandemic: Amanda Coogan". 2020-05-23. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Amanda Coogan, Venice Biennale 2003", Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. "Amanda Coogan, A Brick In The Handbag", The Void, Derry, Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  6. "Amanda Coogan - The Fall", Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  7. "Amanda Coogan - The Passing", The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  8. "I’ll sing you a song from around the town", Royal Hibernian Academy, Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  9. "Amanda Coogan at LCGA", Limerick City Gallery of Art, Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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