Megan Rooney (born 1987) is a Canadian-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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| Born | 1985 (age 38–39) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Toronto |
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
- 2021: BONES ROOTS FRUITS, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK[9]
- 2020: HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada[10]
- 2019: Fire On The Mountain, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany[11]
- 2017: MOMMA! MOMMA!, Tramway, Glasgow, UK[12]
- 2017: Sun Up Moon Down, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland[13]*2016: Animals on the bed, Seventeen, London, UK
- 2016: Piggy Piggy, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany[14]
- 2015: Okie Dog on Santa Monica]', Almanac Inn, Turin, Italy[15]