Runa Islam

Bangladeshi | 1970

Runa Islam is a Bangladeshi Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art have featured Runa Islam's work in the past.Runa Islam's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3,392 USD to 18,724 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 18,724 USD for 2 Works: Utterlies/Butterflies, sold at Christie's London in 2007. Runa Islam has been featured in articles for Creative Review, MOUSSE Magazine and Canadian Art. The most recent article is Memory Palace Review – Thinking Inside the Box written for The Guardian in July 2018.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Refuse/Refuge ,1996

By Runa Islam

EXILE ,1998

By Runa Islam

+20%

above mid-estimate

Exile ,1997

By Runa Islam

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Recent Auction Results

...Laws of night and honey......#3

By Runa Islam

+100%

above mid-estimate

Christie's Online

Dream of a Neon Epigram ,1999

By Runa Islam

Sotheby's London

Dream of a Neon Epigram ,1999

By Runa Islam

-50%

below mid-estimate

Sotheby's New York

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Past Exhibitions

Voyage to the Beginning and Back

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Porto | Portugal

Jul 11,2019 - Nov 03,2019

Memory Palace

White Cube, London (Mason's Yard)

St. James's | London | UK

Jul 11,2018 - Sep 15,2018

Memory Palace

White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street)

London | UK

Jul 11,2018 - Sep 02,2018

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Articles

Memory Palace Review – Thinking Inside the Box

The Guardian 21/07/2018

Jay Jopling’s first White Cube gallery opened in 1993 and changed the British art market for ever. A group exhibition celebrates the great, the good and the distinctly ordinary

A Certain Kind of Light – Six Decades of Using Light in Art

Creative Review 09/01/2017

The work of some 30 artists who have explored light as a material and subject matter is set to feature in a new exhibition at Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos “A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster” and “Prediction” at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo

MOUSSE Magazine 23/07/2016

Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition “A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster,” the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery.

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Coverage

“ ..Islam adopts a range of approaches to displaying her works from single, double and split screens, to sculptural enclosures; and cites experimental and expanded cinema as influential for her practice... ”
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

“ ..Islam constructs poetic compositions that exhibit a precise attention to formal details and an open narrative structure... ”
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SITE Santa Fe

“ ..These works engage in a cohesive visual dialogue while showcasing the variety of Islam’s practice... ”
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SITE Santa Fe

“ ..Runa Islam continually explores the concepts behind cinematic ideas, subjects, and forms, as well as film’s power to affect our perception and reception of ideas and images... ”
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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art