Artist

Amanda Coogan is one of the most exciting contemporary Visual Artists practicing in the arena of Performance Art.   She is at the forefront of some of the most exciting and prolific durational performances to date. Her extraordinary work is challenging, provocative and always visually stimulating.

‘Coogan, whose work usually entails ritual, endurance and cultural iconography, is the leading practitioner of  performance in the country’. The Irish Times, 2010

Her live performances are referents for her video and photographic works. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Her work often begins with her own body and challenges the expectations of the contexts, such as head banging to Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, and signing the lyrics to Gill Scott-Heron’s ‘The Revolution will not be Televised’.

She was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work extensively including The Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, PS1, New York, Galeria Safia, Barcelona, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.

Coogan’s practice is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. www.kevinkavanagh.ie