Runa Islam

Runa Islam creates film and video installations with overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions of truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now lives in London. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, including MUMOK, Vienna (2008); the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2008); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007); the Biennale Seville (2006); the Venice Biennale (2005); and the Hammer Museum (2005). She was a nominee for Tate Gallery's 2008 Turner Prize and is the UCLA Art Council Chair for 2008-09.
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Catherine Sullivan

Catherine Sullivan's works combine the disciplines of theater, dance, film, music, and visual art. Her true medium is the ensemble itself, and her works most often involve multiple collaborators. The performers in them are often coping with written texts, stylistic economies, gestural regimes, reenactments of historic performances, and conceptual orthodoxies. The elements of character, action, and setting agitate one another producing an anxious and unresolved political sensibility. She was born in Los Angeles and lived and worked here until her move to Chicago in 2003. She has had major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007); Tate Modern, London (2005); Vienna Secession, Austria (2005); Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2005); and the Hammer Museum (2002). Her work has been included in the Prague Biennial (2005); the Whitney Biennial (2004); and La Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France (2003).
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Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread was awarded the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize in 1993 and the Venice Biennale Award for Best Young Artist in 1997. Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. She has received several commissions including the Water Tower Project for the Public Art Fund, New York (1998); the Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna (2000); and Embankment for the Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London (2005). In November, her work will be on view at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. She lives and works in London.