RANA BEGUM
Selected Works
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Press
| Born 1977 in Bangladesh, lives and works in London. | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Solo show, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai |
| Perception and Reflection, Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE | |
| 2018 | Space, Light, Colour, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK |
| A Conversation with Light and Form, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK | |
| Rana Begum, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2017 | Solo Project, Art Basel Hong Kong, Jhaveri Contemporary, Hong Kong, China |
| Solo Project, Art Dubai, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE | |
| The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, UAE | |
| Light Space Colour, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK | |
| 2016 | The Space Between, Parasol Unit, London, UK |
| 2015 | Towards the Infinite Geometry, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India |
| Solo Show, Touchstone, Rochdale, UK | |
| 2014 | Solo Show, Galeri Mana, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Solo Project, Dhaka Art Summit, Jhaveri Contemporary, Bangladesh | |
| Solo Project, Art Brussels, Christian Lethert, Belgium | |
| 2013 | No.10, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE |
| Manifold, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2012 | Solo show, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK |
| 2011 | The Folded Page, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India |
| 2010 | Fractured Symmetry, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK |
| Solo show, Delfina Foundation, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Solo show, Barts Hospital, VitalArts, London, UK |
| The Moment of Alignment, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE | |
| 2008 | Transient Symmetry, VineSpace, London, UK |
| 2007 | Colour Codes, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | From Narrow Provinces, Cample Line, Scotland, UK |
| The Intersection of Colour, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, Uk | |
| Is This Tomorrow?, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | |
| 2018 | Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK |
| Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, U.S.A | |
| RA Summer Show, London, UK | |
| Actions, The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Ausbruch aus der Fläche – Das Origami-Prinzip in der Kunst, MARTA Herford, Herford | |
| 2017 | FIFTEEN, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Metal: Women to Watch, curated Caroline Douglas, Philips, London, UK | |
| Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK | |
| Things that Soak You, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| 31 Women, Bresslittle, London, UK | |
| The Order of Things, The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK | |
| 2016 | Tribute to Sol LeWitt, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands |
| 11th Gwangju Biennale, Curated by Maria Lind, Korea | |
| Cause the Grass Don’t Grow and the Sky Ain’t Blue, Praz Delavallade, Paris, France | |
| Flatland/Narrative Abstractions, MRAC, Sérignan, France | |
| New Visions, Curated by Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Into Boundless Space I Leap, Kettle’s Yard / Maxwell Centre, Cambridge, UK | |
| 2015 | The Shapes We’re In, London, UK |
| Triplicity, Athr, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
| Future Light, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria | |
| Geometries of Difference, Dorsky Museum, New York, U.S.A | |
| Linear Abstraction, Gutstein Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia | |
| The Great Festival of Creativity, Long Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Working Space, KNMA, Delhi, India | |
| 2014 | Ethereal, curated by Amin Jaffer, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, U.S.A |
| The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
| 2013 | The Edge of Painting, The Piper Gallery, London, UK |
| Empty Line, curated by Nabila Mokrani, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris, France | |
| 2012 | RA Summer show, London, UK |
| 2011 | The Art and Math of the Fold, Ft-Contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| The New Middle East, Willem Baars, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Common Logic, group show at IMT, London, UK | |
| 2010 | Form & Phenomenon, group show, Project88, Mumbai, India |
| Serendipity City, Future Everything, Manchester, UK | |
| 2009 | How Nations are Made, Cartwright Hall and Manor House, Bradford, UK |
| Pattern Recognition, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK | |
| Lines of Control, Group Show, Green Cardamom, (catalogue), London, UK | |
| Identity, Aisho Miura Arts, (catalogue), Tokyo, Japan | |
| Neither Here, Nor There, Various City Locations- Billboards | |
| 2008 | Contact, Bricklane, Work No. 951, (catalogue), London, UK |
| Monologue/Dialogue Part II, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK | |
| 2007 | Repetition and Sequence, Jerwood Space, (catalogue), London, UK |
| Sequence and Repetition, Beldam Gallery, (catalogue), Uxbridge, UK | |
| 2006 | Monologue/Dialogue, BU Gallery, (catalogue), Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2005 | Art:21 Power /Memory/Structures/Play, Art Museum of Western Virginia, U.S.A |
| Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A | |
| Colour My World, Riflemaker, London, UK | |
| 2004 | Upstarts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A |
| 2×2, Dahl Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland | |
| SELECTED PRESS | |
| 2017 | The New York Times, March 22nd |
| Financial Times, March 17th | |
| Ocula, March | |
| 2016 | Wallpaper* Magazine, July |
| This is tomorrow, August | |
| ArtAsiaPacific, Review by Cleo Roberts, July | |
| Harpers Bazaar, July | |
| AD Magazine, November-December | |
| 2015 | Artsy Editorial Oct 27th, 25 Must-See Shows This November |
| The Metropolist, Artist’s Portrait, by Rachel Holmes | |
| Bazaar, Issue #200, Interview by Deepa Pant | |
| Saturation Point, Interview by Patrick Morrisey | |
| Verve Magazine, India, Framed, Text by Huzan Tata | |
| 2014 | Art Form, Issue 1 |
| Financial Times, The Dhaka Art Summit Rachel Spence | |
| 2013 | Surface Magazine, Marina Cashdan, Issue 101 |
| Time Out, Dubai | |
| ArtAsiaPacific, Kevin Jones Issue 85 | |
| Ala Chamfest, Magazine No.6 | |
| 2012 | Platform- creative lifestyle Jan/Feb |
| 2011 | Mid-Day, Shape shifters invade city by Soma Das, Mumbai |
| Wallpaper, Colour Scheme by Deepanjana Pal | |
| Vogue India, Shape Shifter by Deepanjana Pal | |
| 2010 | Time Out, India. Block Game by Zeenat Nagree |
| Art Asia Pacific by Hanea Ko | |
| Time Out, London. In the studio by Helen Sumpter | |
| 2009 | Modern Painters, Back to Black by Jyoti Dhar |
| What’s On, Dubai, The line of beauty by Catherine Jarvie | |
| Gulf News, Dubai newspaper, Lines of enchantment, Jyoti Kalsi | |
| Time Out, Dubai, Solid Geometry by Chris Lord | |
| The National, Dubai newspaper, Patterns of work by Ed Lake | |
| 2008 | Financial Times, Abstraction Rules OK by Jan Dalley |
| 2007 | Vogue UK, October issue, The alchemists by Louisa Buck |
| LÓfficial Middle East, Colour Codes | |
| OK, Dubai, Colour Codes | |
| City Times, Dubai, Colour Codes | |
| Gulf News, Dubai. Colour Codes | |
| Time Out, Dubai, Issue 36, Colour Codes | |
| Harper’s Bazaar, Dubai, Sep. 2007, Colour Codes | |
| 2006 | The Nation Newspaper, Bangkok, Monologue/Dialogue |
| AWARDS, COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES | |
| 2018 | Bella Artes Project, Manila, Philippines |
| 2017 | No.724 Reflectors, Westgate, Oxford, UK |
| 2016 | No.688, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA |
| No.700 Refelctors, Kings Cross, London, UK | |
| 2015 | No.510, HLC, Kiran Nadar, Delhi, India |
| 2014 | LSM, Washington DC, USA |
| 2013 | Surbiton Health Centre Public Art Commission, London, UK |
| Hualien Cinema, public art commission, Taiwan | |
| 2012 | Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2011 | Marcol House public art commission, London, UK |
| 2009 | Two months residency in Beirut through Delfina Foundation |
| 2007 | Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award |
| 2006 | British Council Residency in Bangkok |
| 2005 | Lewisham Hospital Commission |
| Coventry Hospital Commission in collaboration with Tess Jaray | |
| Artist in Residence at West Dean College, West Sussex | |
| 2000 | Arts and Humanities Research Board award for postgraduate study |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| Samdani Collection | |
| Simons Foundation | |
| Farjam Collection, Dubai | |
| Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India | |
| British Telecom Headquarters, London | |
| Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Arts | |
| Rajshree Pathy Collection, India | |
| MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Tasmania | |
| Ernst & Young Collection, London | |
| Art Museum of Western Virginia | |
| The London Institute | |
| Goverment Art Collection | |
| Arts Council Collection | |
| Abraaj | |
| Art Museum of Western Virginia | |
| Ernst and Young, London | |
| Pictet | |
| Cleveland Clinic, Ohio | |
| Surbiton Health Centre, NHS | |
| HCL Technologies | |
| Great Portland Estate | |
| Westgate Oxford Alliance | |
| Argent (Kings Cross) | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2002 | Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA in Painting |
| 1999 | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree in Painting |
| 1996 | University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design |
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