Roland Runaj
Re-Born
2015, Albania
About Roland Runaj
Born in Vlora in 1978, he studied Picture at the “Naim Frashëri” Art High School in Vlora, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, Italy, in 2006, where he completed 2-year post- graduate studies. After many years in Italy, he returned to Vlora where he currently lives and works. He is very active in the artistic field both in Albania and abroad. About his Imago Mundi work he says: “Collective consciousness of our community has a tendency; it seems to be forgotten, but it is always there, under the skin (like the submarine which is also a symbol of our Quixotic fight) and time and again it emerges”.
-SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 “Text’Ure”, City Gallery, Vlora, Albania
2014 “Pranverart 5”, Group exhibition, National History Museum, Tirana, Albania
2010 “Lear 2010”, Edward Lear Gallery, Berat, Albania
2010 “Two Peoples, a Sea, a Friendship”, Laboratorio Arte e Scuole, General Consulate of Italy in Vlora, Albania
2008 “Trame d’artista” an aesthetic path of contemporary visions, Group exhibition, Lecce, Italy
2008 “Primavera in Arte” E.DI.S.U. Contest, Winner of the “Corti” section with the work “Metamorphosis”, Lecce, Italy
2005 Gaetano Morgese National Prize, Winner of the 3rd Prize, Chiostro delle Clarisse, Terlizzi, Bari, Italy
2004 “In Linea”, curated by Rita Tondo, A.B.B.A —Lecce, Italy
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