Megan Rooney
BIOGRAPHY
b. 1985, Canada
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Flyer and the Seed, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2021
BONES ROOTS FRUITS, Thaddaeus Ropac, London
2020
EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, performance, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Green, I Want You Green, Salzburger Kunstver, Salzburg
HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
2019
TEETH & LIGHTNING, SALTS, Basel
EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, performance, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Fire On The Mountain, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2018
Cuckoo till I come back, Drei, Cologne
2017
Others got wings for flying, performance, Tramway, Glasgow
MOMMA! MOMMA!, Tramway, Glasgow
Hullabaloo, Cordova, Vienna
2016
Animals on the bed, Seventeen, London
Piggy Piggy, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
2015
Okie Dog on Santa Monica, Almanac Inn, Turin
2014
Tilia Americana, Opening Times – Digital Art Commissions
Affluent Insights, Limazulu Project Space, London
Touching your face in a painting by the river, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
2013
0% Promise, cur. Paul Pieroni, SPACE, London
Everythings the same this is my dream, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Natura Morta, Ilenia, London
2022
Saturation, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Fugues in color, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
2021
Sweet Lies. Rethinking Identity, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2019
Where water comes together with other water, 15th Biennale de Lyon Art Contemporain, Lyon
Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Sarah Margnetti & Megan Rooney, Last Tango, Zürich
2018
CHILDHOOD: Another banana day for the dream-fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
SUN DOWN MOON UP, performance, Park Nights 2018, Serpentine Galleries, London
2017
(X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Ministry of Internal Affairs. Intimacy as Text, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Something Like You, ANDOR, London
Poor Memory, Without Poetry Nothing is Possible, performance, Salon Suisse, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2016
Physical Fiction, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam
f on your tongue, performance, Project 1049, LUMA Foundation, Peak Walk by Tissot, Glacier 3000, Gstaad, Switzerland
Kisses sweeter than wine, Treignac Projet, France
2015
Natural Instincts, Les Urbaines, Lausanne
Basic Instinct, Seventeen, London
Last Days. Last Days. Last Days., performance, Serpentine Galleries, London
Sets of Poetry, performance, Cell Project Space, London
WLGTDWI (What’s Love Got to Do with It), SALTS, Basel
2014
Till the stars turn cold, S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow
Frieze Performance Programme, London
O Labor, Sister Continent, performance with Quinn Latimer, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
Pleasure & Charity, performance, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
read the room / you’ve got to, SALTS, Basel
Pleasure Principles, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
