Runa Islam - Visual Artist

Biography

1970 Born Dhaka, Bangladesh
Currently lives and works in London

1997-8 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1995 Middlesex University /1990 - 92 Manchester Metropolitan University

Solo Exhibitions

2003 'Rapid Eye Movement' MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2001 'One day a day will come, when a day will not come anymore', April in parking meters, Cologne
'Director's Cut (Fool for Love)', White Cube, London

2000 'Screen Test/ Unscript' Fig-1, London

Group Exhibitions

2003 Sharjah Biennial, Expo Centre, Sharjah
Miradas cómplices, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela

2002- Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Videodrome, New Museum, New York
Shine, St Pancras Chambers, London
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Tele-Journeys, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Haunted House of Art, Outline, Amsterdam

2001 Looking With/Out, Courtauld Institute, London
Footloose, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Squatters, Museu de Serralves, Oporto and Witte de With, Rotterdam
Gymnasion, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Please Disturb Me, Great Eastern Hotel, London
Whitechapel Centenary 1901-2001, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
In/SITE/out. Inquiries into Social Space, Apex Art, New York
Century City, Tate Modern, London
Video, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich

2000 Nurture and Desire (in Aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer), Hayward Gallery, London
Sublime, Duende, Rotterdam
Hers at Steirischer Herbst, Landesmuseum, Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Haven Lodge, Haven Lodge Residential Home, Ramsgate
Guarene Arte 2000, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l'arte, Guarene d'Alba, Italy
The British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition: Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham
And If There Were No Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Point of View, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Wouldn't it Be Nice, Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam

1999 Stimuli, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Masterclass 1999, KHM, Cologne
Amnesiac Cinema, Galerie du Bellay, Mont-St-Aijan, France
Ninenineninetynine, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
Dis-Locations, hARTware projekte, Dortmund, Germany
East International, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
000Zero, Zero, Zero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1998 Near, Sharzah Museum of Art, Sharzah, United Arab Emirates
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
The Vauxhall Gardens, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
Martin, Catalyst Arts, Belfast and Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
The Road, Espace Culturel François Mitterand, Beauvais, France
Host, Tramway, Glasgow
Beloved, The Waiting Room, Wolverhampton

1997 Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Double Life, The Waiting Room, Wolverhampton
Colo(u)rblind, Salle de Bains, Rotterdam
Martin, Top Floor, Atlantis Gallery, London
Big Blue, Coins, London and Café Fix, Berlin

1996 Yerself is Steam, 85 Charlotte Road, London
Childs Play, D.F.W.T.F.D Gallery, London
Flag, Clink Wharf, London

1995 Lost Property, The Lost Goods Building, London

1994 Transit at Art Focus, Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv
Candyman II, Building C, London

Festivals, Events and Screenings

2002 Runa Islam , Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen
Confiture demain, confiture hire, jamias confiture aujourd'hui, Centre Regional D'Art Contemporain de Sète, France
2001 Idea Festival. Video in the City, Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst Maastrict
Black Cube 6. Film en video, installaties en performances, Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam
Crylawn Artlab 11, Caltech, Pasedena

2000 Devil Eats Out, Flag, London

1999 Runa Islam, Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen, The Netherlands
World Wide Video Festival at Uitmarkt, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam
Open Electronic Festival, USVA, Groningen, The Netherlands
Voor Bij De Realiteit, SuB-K, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Runa Islam at Impakt Film Festival, Begane Grond, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1998 Scope 2 International Video Festival, Artists Space, New York

1994/5/6 Hit and Run 1-4, Arch 53 and The Ministry of Sound, London

Collaborations

2001 Cité, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, with Roger Cremers, Institute Hollandaise, Paris
What's Wrong, with Peter Lewis Trade Apartment, London

2000 History Lessons at Kunst en der Stadt 2000 with Peter Lewis, Korn Theatre, Bregenz, Austria
'Alice in Bed' by Susan Sontag with Het Zuidlijk Toneel and New York Theatre Workshop

1998 Plaats with J. Daf, P. Fillingham and J. Issacs, W139, Amsterdam

1997 Curator's Arse with Peter Lewis at Martin, Catalyst Arts, Belfast and Waygood Gallery, Newcastle

1996 Life/Live with David Medalla, Adam Nakervis and Peter Lewis, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Awards, Prizes and Commissions

2002/ 03 Arena, Samling Foundation commission

2001 London Arts, 'Visual Arts' Award

2000 Ford Motor Co & Breakthrough, 'Nurture & Desire' Commission
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 'Premio Regione Piemonte 2000'

1999 University of East London, 'Richmix' Commission
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst 'Aanmoedigings Prijs '99

1998 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 'Acquisitions Prize'
NUFFIC Scholarship

1997 Foundation of Sports and Arts Award
Campden Charities Scholarship