Works
  • Rana Begum, No. 1225 Chainlink, 2023
    No. 1225 Chainlink, 2023
  • Rana Begum, No. 1187 Mesh, 2022
    No. 1187 Mesh, 2022
  • Rana Begum, No. 1390 Louvre, No. 1395 Louvre, 2024
    No. 1390 Louvre, No. 1395 Louvre, 2024
  • Rana Begum, No. 1387 Fence, 2024
    No. 1387 Fence, 2024
  • Rana Begum, No. 1048 Mesh, 2020
    No. 1048 Mesh, 2020
  • Rana Begum, No. 1196 Tiles, 2022
    No. 1196 Tiles, 2022
  • Rana Begum, No. 1425 Relief Panel, 2024
    No. 1425 Relief Panel, 2024
  • Rana Begum, WP664, WP667, WP706, 2024
    WP664, WP667, WP706, 2024
  • Rana Begum, Infinite Geometry, 2021
    Infinite Geometry, 2021
  • Rana Begum, No. 1039 Painting, 2020
    No. 1039 Painting, 2020
  • Rana Begum, Is this Tomorrow?, 2019
    Is this Tomorrow?, 2019
  • Rana Begum, No. 1274 Painting, 2023
    No. 1274 Painting, 2023
  • Rana Begum, No. 700 Reflectors, 2016
    No. 700 Reflectors, 2016
  • Rana Begum, No. 764 Baskets, 2018
    No. 764 Baskets, 2018
  • Rana Begum, No. 793, 2018
    No. 793, 2018
  • Rana Begum, No. 814, 2018
    No. 814, 2018
  • Rana Begum, No. 904 Painting, 2019
    No. 904 Painting, 2019
  • Rana Begum, No. 970, 2020
    No. 970, 2020
  • Rana Begum, No. 974, 2019-2020
    No. 974, 2019-2020
  • Rana Begum, Roksanda A/W, 2020
    Roksanda A/W, 2020
  • Rana Begum, No. 1367 Mesh, 2024
    No. 1367 Mesh, 2024
  • Rana Begum, No. 1077, 2021
    No. 1077, 2021
  • Rana Begum, No. 1220 Chainlink, 2022
    No. 1220 Chainlink, 2022
  • Rana Begum, No. 1141 Zigzag, 2022
    No. 1141 Zigzag, 2022
Biography

Rana Begum was born in 1977 in Bangladesh and currently lives and works in London. Begum’s work focuses on the interplay between light and colour, blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her use of repetitive geometric patterns – found both within Islamic art and the industrial cityscape – takes its inspiration from childhood memories of the rhythmic repetition of daily recitals of the Qur’an. Influenced by the geometric abstraction of minimalism and constructivism and the work of artists such as Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Jesús Rafael de Soto and Tess Jaray, Begum’s work ranges from drawings, paintings and wall-based sculptures to large-scale public art projects.

 

Solo exhibitions include Reflections, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA (2025); Kate MacGarry, London (2024); Ordered Form, St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, UK (2023-24); Dappled Light, Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE and The Box, Plymouth, UK (2023); Dappled Light, Pitzhanger Manor, UK (2022) and Mead Gallery, UK (2021); Infinite Geometry, Wanås Konst, Sweden, (2021); A Conversation with Light and Form, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK (2018), following the Tate St Ives Artists Programme residency at Porthmeor Studios; Space, Light, Colour, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2018) and Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK (2017) and The Space Between, Parasol Unit, London (2016).

 

Begum curated the exhibitions Opposing Forms at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK (2025) and Occasional Geometries at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017). Group exhibitions include Network Paris Abstraction-Création 1931–1937, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany (2025); Life is More Important Than Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2023); Desert X, Palm Springs, USA (2023); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2023); Simplicity of Form: Unfolding Abstraction, Bermuda National Gallery (2023); Rhythm and Geometry, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK (2022); Creative Folkestone Triennial, Kent, UK (2021); Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2018); Tribute to Sol LeWitt, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2016) and The 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2016). A comprehensive monograph, Rana Begum: Space Light Colour, was published by Lund Humphries in 2021. She was elected a Royal Academican in 2020.

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