Megan Rooney

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Megan Rooney
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Born1985 (age 3839)
NationalityCanadian
EducationGoldsmiths, University of London; University of Toronto

Megan Rooney (born 1985) is a South African-born, London-based artist who creates paintings, sculptures, installations, performances and poetry. [1] Rooney is known for integrating contrasting disciplines, such as painting, sculpture performance, into a single work. [2] 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. [3] Her work has been shown in solo museum exhibitions at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2020–21); [4] Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020); [3] and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2019). [5]

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Her performances include SUN DOWN MOON UP, as part of the Park Nights programme at Serpentine Galleries, London in 2018; [6] and EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, created in collaboration with choreographer Temitope Ajose-Cutting and musician Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2019 [5] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto in 2020. [7]

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.

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. [8]

Solo exhibitions

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References

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  2. Luke, Ben (15 August 2018). "Megan Rooney interview: 'Things have to evolve, otherwise it means you've stopped looking'". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  3. 1 2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020). "Megan Rooney: HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  4. Salzburger Kunstverein (2020). "Megan Rooney: Green, I Want You Green" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  5. 1 2 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2019). "Megan Rooney: Fire On The Mountain" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  6. Serpentine Galleries (2018). "Park Nights 2018: Megan Rooney, SUN DOWN MOON UP" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  7. Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020). "Performances: Megan Rooney, EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  8. Julian, Helena (22 October 2019). "'An Infected Landscape of Oozing Materials': The 15th Lyon Biennale". frieze. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
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