Ms Runa Islam's Biography

Ms Runa Islam's Professional Career

Career

artist; Campden Charities Scholarship 1997, NUFFIC Scholarship 1998, Univ of E London Richmix Cmmn 1999, Ford Motor Co and Breakthrough Nurture & Desire Cmmn 2000, Arena Sammling Fndn and NESTA Cmmn 2002-03, Public Art Strategy Artists Cmmn for Home Office Bldg 2004-2005; Fndn of Sports and Arts Award 1997, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Acquistions Prize 1998, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Aanmoedigings Prijs '99 1999, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Premio Regione Piemonte 2000, London Arts Visual Arts Award 2001; Solo Exhibitions incl: Screen Test/Unscript (Fig-1 London) 2000, Tschumi Pavillion Groningen 2000, Director's Cut (Fool for Love) (White Cube London) 2001, One day a day will come, when a day will not come any more (April in parking meters, Cologne) 2001, Rapid Eye Movement (MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge) 2003, Film and Video Works (Voralberger Kunstverein Bregenz) 2003, Director's Cut (Fool for Love) (Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz Project Space Vienna) 2003, Scale (1/16 inch = 1 foot) (ShugoArts Tokyo) 2004; Group Exhibitions Transit at Art Focus (Central Bus Station Tel Aviv) 1994, Lost Property (The Lost Goods Building London) 1995, Yerself is Steam (85 Charlotte Rd London) 1996, Big Blue (Coins London and Café Fix Berlin) 1997, The Road (Espace Culturel François Mitterand Beauvais) 1998, Martin (Catalyst Arts Belfast and Waygood Gallery Newcastle) 1998, The Vauxhall Gardens (Norwich Art Gallery) 1998, 000Zero, Zero, Zero (Whitechapel Art Gallery London) 1999, East International (Norwich Art Gallery) 1999, Dis-Locations (hARTware projekte Dortmund) 1999, And If There Were No Stories (Stephen Friedman Gallery London) 2000, The British Art Show 5 (Hayward Gallery touring exhbn) 2000, Haven Lodge (Haven Lodge Residential Home Ramsgate) 2000, Nurture and Desire (in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Hayward Gallery London) 2000, Century City (Tate Modern London) 2001, Whitechapel Centenary 1901-2001 (Whitechapel Art Gallery London) 2001, Please Disturb Me (Great Eastern Hotel London) 2001, Looking With/Out (Courtauld Inst London) 2001, A Haunted House of Art (Outline Amsterdam) 2002, Videodrome II (Zenith Media Lounge New Museum NY) 2002, Great Theatre of the World (Taipei Fine Arts Museum) 2002, Miradas Cómplices (Accomplished Glances) (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea Santiago de Compostela) 2003, Sharjah Int Biennial 6 2003, Poetic Justice (8th International Istanbul Biennial) 2003, Love/Hate, Attempts at the Grand Emotion Between Art and the Theatre (Ursula Blickle Fndn Kraichal) 2003, In Movement: UNESCO Salutes Women in Video Art (UNESCO HQ Paris) 2004, Britannia Works (Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre Athens) 2004, Párpados y Labios (Eyelids and Lips) (Antigua Fábrica de Tabascos Madrid) 2004, Lilith (Mot London) 2004, Eclipse, Towards the Edge of the Visible (White Cube London) 2004; Collaborations Life/Live (with David Medalla, Adam Nakervis and Peter Lewis, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) 1996, Curator's Arse (with Peter Lewis, Catalyst Arts Belfast and Waygood Gallery Newcastle) 1997, Plaats (with J Daf, P Fillingham and J Isaacs, W139 Amsterdam) 1998, `Alice in Bed' by Susan Sontag (with HZT and NY Theatre Workshop) 2000, History Lessons at Kunst en der Stadt 2000 (with Peter Lewis, Korn Theatre Bregenz) 2000, What's Wrong (with Peter Lewis, Trade Apartment London) 2001, Cité (with Roger Cremers, Institut Néerlandais Paris and Inst Hollandaise Paris) 2001; Festivals, Events and Screenings Hit and Run 1-4 (Arch 53 and The Ministry of Sound London) 1994, 1995 and 1996, Scope 2 International Film Festival (Artists Space NY) 1998, Runa Islam at Impakt Film Festival (Begane Grond Utrecht) 1999, World Wide Video Festival (Uitmarkt Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam) 1999, Devil Eats Out (Flag London) 2000, Idea Festival Video in the City (Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst Maastricht) 2001, Film and Video (Danish Film Inst) 2002, Rapid Eye Movement (Camden Arts Centre Off Centre Event, Everyman Cinema London) 2003

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