Turner Prize 2008

Runa Islam Photo: Tom Hunter

Runa Islam

Runa Islam has been nominated for her solo exhibition Centre of Gravity at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and National Museum of Art, Oslo.

Runa Islam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1970.
She studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 1997-8 and Royal College of Art, London, 2002-4.
Solo exhibitions include: White Cube, London (2001, 2005); MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, Massachussetts (2003); Camden Arts Centre, London; Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga; Serpentine Gallery, London (2006); Kunsthalle Bergen (2007); MUMOK, Vienna (2008).
Her recent group exhibitions include The British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition (2000); Century City, Tate Modern, London (2001); Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003); 51st Venice Biennale (2005); Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA, London (2006) and Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007).