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Runa Islam
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1970 Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lives and works in London
Education
2002-2004 Master of Philosophy; Royal College of Art
1997-1998 Two Year Residency Programme, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1995/ 90-92 BA Hons, Middlesex University/ Manchester Metropolitan University
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Projects MoMA, USA* forthcoming
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA* forthcoming
2010
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney* forthcoming
Kivik Arts, Kivik, Sweden
Runa Islam, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
2008
Restless Subject, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Restless Subject, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Runa Islam featuring Tobias Putrih, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London
Empty the pond to get the fish. , MUMOK, Vienna
The Restless Subject, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Lost Cinema Lost, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
2007
Be The First To See What You See As You See It, Two Rooms, Auckland Festival, Auckland
Centre of Gravity, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
Centre of Gravity, National Museum of Art, Oslo
2006
Conditional Probability, Serpentine Gallery, London
Video invitational. Video in tutti i sensi, Viafarini, Milan
Room Service, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga
2005
How Far To Fårö, Museo di Arte e Contemporanea di Trento, Rovereto
Time Lines, White Cube, London
Be The First To See What You See As You See It, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Time Lines, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
Out of the Picture, Camden Arts Centre, London
Scale (1/16 inch = 1 foot), Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Visages & Voyages, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
2004
Runa Islam: Scale (1/16 inch = 1 foot), Shugo Arts, Tokyo
2003
Director’s Cut (Fool for Love), Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz Project Space, Vienna
Runa Islam, Film and Video Works Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz
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
Runa Islam, Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen,The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions
2010
Prospect 2, New Orleans* forthcoming
There is always a cup of sea for man to sail. , 29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo* forthcoming
GLÜCK happens, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany* forthcoming
BLOCKBUSTER, including Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City* forthcoming
2½ dimensional: film featuring architecture, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Modernologies, Part2 Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw
2009
6th Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Cosmetica Dogmatica, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona
New Media Festival, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Void of Memory, Platform 2009, Seoul
The White Show, Arts Council Collection, PM Gallery, London
Modernologies, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
2008
True Romance, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Villa Stock Munchen, Germany
Brave New Worlds, La Collecion Jumex, Mexico City
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
Runa Islam, Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy
Empire, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, London
Collaterol 2, SESC, Sao Paulo
The Architecture of Desire: Part I, I.D.E.A. Space at Colorado College, Colorado
2007
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Übergangsräume – Potential Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Your position as much as your environment, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo
Two Rooms, Auckland Festival, Auckland
Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
I Want To Believe, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
COLLATERAL When Art looks at Cinema, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2006
Super Vision, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
Dual Realities, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea
The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Seville Biennale, Seville
Broken Lines,Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju,Korea
Undisciplined: Attese Ceramic Biennal, Albisola, Italy
Sub-Contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Upsetting the Balance, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Between Body and Object, MARTa, Herford
Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA, London
Sip My Ocean, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
Whisper Not, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
2005
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Contour 05. Video Art Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium
More Than This! Negotiating Realities, Goteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Sweden
Variation Xanadu, Taipei MOCA, Taipei
In the Middle of…, South Öland World Heritage Site
Manipulations on Economies of Deceit: Kinskich Palace, Prague Biennale
Always a Little Further, Arsenale, 51st Venice Biennale
Critical Societies Art; Criticism and the Promises of Capitalism Part Two: Boundless Sociability Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Split Subject, De Appel, Amsterdam
Critical Societies Art; Criticism and the Promises of Capitalism Part One: Sources of Indignation, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
We Have Met The Enemy And He Is With Us, Redux, London
2004
This Is Not A Home, This Is A House, L’Observatoire, Brussels
Spin Cycle, Spike Island, Bristol
Eclipse, Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
Lilith, MOT, London
Blind Date, Temporary Contemporary, London
Párpados y Labios (Eyelids and Lips), at Historias, Photo España, Antigua Fábrica de Tabacos, Madrid
Tape291, 291 Gallery, London
Process, L’Observatoire, Brussels
Britannia Works, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, British Council, Athens
In Movement: UNESCO Salutes Women in Video Art Unesco Headquarters, Paris
2003
Love / Hate, Attempts at the Grand Emotion Between Art and the Theatre, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichal, Germany
Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo 4, Istanbul
Turbulent Screen, Edith Russ-Haus Fur MedienKunst, Oldenburg
Sharjah International Biennial 6, Expo Centre, United Arab Emirates
Miradas Cómplices (Knowing Looks), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Spain
2002
Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Videodrome II, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum, New York
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Tele-Journeys, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Shine, St. Pancras Chambers, London
A Haunted House of Art, Outline, Amsterdam
2001
Looking With/Out, Courtauld Institute, London
Foot Loose, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Squatters, Museu de Serralves, Oporto and Witte de With, Rotterdam
Gymnasion, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Idea Festival. Video in the City, Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst Maastrict
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
Screenings, Festivals and Events
2007
Photo Festival, Mannheim
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2006
Dis-assembly/ Serpentine Education Project, NWCS, LondonBeyond the Museum/Beyond the Cinema, Hamburger Bahnhof and Cinema Arsenal, BerlinCopenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2006, CopenhagenHospitality: space, travel and translation,Villa Massimo (the German Academy) Rome
2005
Runa Islam, Prospectif Cinema, Pompidou Centre, ParisFocus on Runa Islam, 11th Biennale of Moving Images, Centre pour l’Image contemporain, Geneva
2004
Loop ’04, Pilar Parra, Barcelo Hotel Sants, Barcelona
Nuit Blanche, Paris
2003
Video Lounge, Art Basel/ Miami Beach
‘Scale (1/16 inch = 1foot)’ at Owen Luder Car Park, Arena Launch and Baltic Event, Gateshead
Films selected by P. Terrier–Hermann, Point Ligne, Paris
Rapid Eye Movement, Camden Arts Centre Off Centre Event, Everyman Cinema, London
2002
Runa Islam, Film and Video, Danish Film Institute, Denmark
Confiture demain, confiture hier, jamias confiture aujourd’hui, Centre Regional D’Art Contemporain de Sète, France
2001
Idea Festival. Video in the City, Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst Maastricht
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
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, Trade Apartment, London, with Peter Lewis
2000
History Lessons at Kunst en der Stadt 2000 with Peter Lewis, Korn Theatre, Bregenz, Austria
‘Alice in Bed’ by Susan Sontag with HZT 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, Commissions, Residencies
2007
Two Rooms, New Zealand Residency
2006
Quercus Lamu Bursary
2005
IASPIS, June – Oct Residency, Stockholm
2004/ 2005
Government Art Collection, Public Art Strategy, Artists Commission for Home Office Building
2004
Spike Island, June – August Residency, Bristol
2002/ 2003
‘Arena’, Samling Foundation and NESTA 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
Talks
2006
Artificial Reality Symposium, Anderson Ranch, AspenRuna Islam and Kenneth Hayes; Urban Speakers Field Series, Prefix ICA, TorontoRuna Islam, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.Runa Islam, Viafarini, Milan
2005
Runa Islam Artist’s Talk, Camden Arts Centre, London
Runa Islam and Roderick Buchanan in conversation with Eddie Berg, Camden Arts Centre, London
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