sarah.cooney@network.rca.ac.uk
b. 1982 Stockton-on-Tees, UK
EDUCATION
2006-2008
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2002-2005
BA (hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
A Generous Space 2, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
To the Studio (curated by Daniella Norton), Gallery DODO, Brighton, UK
2021
Your Foot in My Face and Other Tectonic Strategies (Organised by Dan Howard-Birt), Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK
2019
Legacy: 50 Years of Painting in the Tees Valley, The Auxiliary Middlesbrough
Creekside Open (Selected by Brian Griffiths), APT Gallery, London, UK
2018
Beep Painting Prize, Exhibition, Swansea College of Art, Wales
Stockton Contemporary, Stockton-on-Tees
2017
Colour Code, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, UK
Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, UK
2016
Tell Her Story, Crown Street Art Gallery, Darlington, UK
Making a Scene (a collaboration with Cristina Cojanu), NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK
2015
Mud, Oil and Plastic, Mother Studios Project Space, London, UK
2014
The Trouble with Painting Today (curated by Hannah Conroy), Pump House Gallery, London, UK
2013
Painting Parade, LeanndaKateLouise, London
Copy (curated by Sarah Kate Wilson), Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012
Hackney WickED Open Studios, Mother Studios, London
2011
‘Dialogues’ 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Central Exhibition Hall ‘Manege’, St Petersburg, Russia
2011
GALERIA REGRESSO, Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Republic, Red Room, Rose & Crown, London, UK
2010
Nothing Gold Can Stay (curated by Nina Trivedi), 3YE Project Space, London
Watch This Space Young & Emerging Artists Auction, Special Yoga Centre, London, UK
HaTS Berlin, Smartloft Apartments and Art, Berlin, Germany
2009
Pale blue and green (two person show with Jess Flood-Paddock), Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
Bankrobber, Red Room, Rose & Crown, London, UK
Pretty Deep (inside your head), The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
2008
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland
Rapunzel Rapunzel, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
Pentimenti, Permanent Gallery, London
The Show Part One, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006
Spent, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2009/10
Smartloft Apartments, Berlin, Germany
2006
Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, North UIST
AWARDS/PRIZES
2016
Studio Bursary, Navigator North, Middlesbrough
2011
Shortlisted for Abbey Fellowship, British School at Rome
2008
Hugh Dunn Award, Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers/Royal College of Art
2006
Greater London Area NAFDAS Bursary Award
2005
Graduate Fellowship in Painting, Northumbria University
2005
John Crisp Memorial Painting Prize
PUBLICATIONS
2010
Fringe MK Painting Prize Catalogue (selected by Stephen Snoddy, Anthony Spira, Andy Harper, Sally Annett)
TALKS AND LECTURES
2019
Paint Hard organised by Creative Factory, Northern School of Art, Middlesbrough
2017
Panel discussion for ‘Conversations in Painting’, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough
2009
Panel discussion, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, Glasgow School of Art
PROJECTS
2019
Conversations in Painting: Fiesta MK2 (ACE funded)
2017
Conversations in Painting: if it fits in the Fiesta you’re in (ACE funded)
2013
Devonshires: Developing Artists, with Wallspace in the Workplace, London
COLLECTIONS
Middlesbrough Collection held at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art