Amanda Coogan is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across media; through live art, performance, photography and video. She is one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary visual artist’s practicing in the arena of performance and has performed and exhibited her work extensively including: the Broad Museum, Michigan; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; The Neimeyer Centre, Spain; The MAC, Belfast; Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford; HOME, Manchester; The Golden Thread, Belfast; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Contemporary Irish Art Centre LA, Los Angeles; The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, The LAB, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art; PS1, New York, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, West Cork Arts Centre; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Coogan studied painting at Limerick School of Art and Design, and holds a degree in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She was a Masters student of artist Marina Abramovic at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2013 she was awarded her PhD “Deconstructing and Reconstructing live Durational Performance in the Gallery” from the University of Ulster, Belfast. 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; Technical University Dublin and Crawford College of Art, Cork.

Image: Amanda Coogan, Possession, (performance still), 2022, Hugh Lane Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and Hugh Lane Gallery.