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.
[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] 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.