Megan Rooney | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Goldsmiths, 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.
