Megan Rooney
Megan Rooney (born 1985) is a South African-born, London-based artist who creates paintings, sculptures, installations, performances and poetry. Rooney is known for integrating contrasting disciplines, such as painting, sculpture performance, into a single work. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011 and, prior to that, completed her BA at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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- Name
- Megan Rooney
- Born
- 1985
- Education
- Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Toronto
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor · installation artist
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Her work has been shown in solo museum exhibitions at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2020–21); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020); and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2019). Her performances include SUN DOWN MOON UP, as part of the Park Nights programme at Serpentine Galleries, London in 2018; and EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, created in collaboration with choreographer Temitope Ajose-Cutting and musician Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2019 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto in 2020. Peter Gabriel chose her painting And Still (Time) to represent his song "And Still", the eleventh single on his eighth album i/o, released in 2023.
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• Name — Megan Rooney • Born — 1985 • Website — https: www.megan-rooney.com/ • Education — Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Toronto
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Megan Rooney, a painter and installation artist, was born in 1985 in Kapstadt. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Selected exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
In 2019 she exhibited: Where water comes together with other water, in the group exhibition 15th Biennale de Lyon Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Megan Rooney is London.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• 2024: ECHOES & HOURS, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK • 2021: BONES ROOTS FRUITS, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK • 2020: HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada • 2019: Fire On The Mountain, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany • 2017: MOMMA! MOMMA!, Tramway, Glasgow, UK • 2017: Sun Up Moon Down, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland *2016: Animals on the bed, Seventeen, London, UK • 2016: Piggy Piggy, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany • 2015: Okie Dog on Santa Monica, Almanac Inn, Turin, Italy
Life and career
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Life and career
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1985
Megan Rooney born at Cape Town.
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- 1.McLean-Ferris, Laura. Openings: Megan Rooney. Artforum. October 2019.
- 2.Luke, Ben. Megan Rooney interview: 'Things have to evolve, otherwise it means you've stopped looking'. Evening Standard. 15 August 2018.
- 3.Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. Megan Rooney: HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE. 2020.
- 4.Salzburger Kunstverein. Megan Rooney: Green, I Want You Green. 2020.
- 5.Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Megan Rooney: Fire On The Mountain. 2019.
- 6.Serpentine Galleries. Park Nights 2018: Megan Rooney, SUN DOWN MOON UP. 2018.
- 7.Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. Performances: Megan Rooney, EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE. 2020.
- 8.Julian, Helena. 'An Infected Landscape of Oozing Materials': The 15th Lyon Biennale. frieze. 22 October 2019.
- 9.Megan Rooney. www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk.
- 10.Megan Rooney, Bones, Fruits, Roots. Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery.
- 11.Megan Rooney: Hush, Sky, Murmur, Hole. Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.
- 12.Megan Rooney: Fire on the Mountain. Kunsthalle Dusseldorf.
- 13.Megan Rooney: Momma! Momma!. Tramway.
- 14.Megan Rooney: Sun Up Moon Down. Freymond Guth Fine Arts.
- 15.Megan Rooney: Piggy Piggy. Croy Nielsen.
- 16.Megan Rooney: Okie Dog on Santa Monica. Almanac Projects.
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