Raafat Ishak

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Egyptian | 1967

Raafat Ishak is an Egyptian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1967. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sutton Gallery have featured Raafat Ishak's work in the past.Raafat Ishak's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 595 USD to 614 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 614 USD for Excrement Gate, sold at Leonard Joel, Melbourne in 2016. Raafat Ishak has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Canadian Art in May 2013.

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Notable Lots

Free Arrow Of The Consciousness Of Humanity 鈥� II - Raafat Ishak

Free Arrow Of The Consciousness Of Humanity 鈥� II ,1992

By Raafat Ishak

Three Tears for White Trash 2007- 2009

By Raafat Ishak

Third, Fifth, Seventh Time - Raafat Ishak

Third, Fifth, Seventh Time ,2005

By Raafat Ishak

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Recent Auction Results

Three Tears for White Trash 2007- 2009

By Raafat Ishak

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Three Tears for White Trash 2007- 2009

By Raafat Ishak

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Misery Gate ,2003

By Raafat Ishak

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Past Exhibitions

Raafat Ishak: Sore Sun

Sutton Gallery

Fitzroy | Australia

30 Aug, 2025 - 27 Sep, 2025

Bernhard Sachs: After History

Linden New Art

St. Kilda | Australia

15 Feb, 2025 - 18 May, 2025

A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude鈥檚 First Decade 1985-1995

Gertrude Contemporary

Preston | Australia

08 Feb, 2025 - 23 Mar, 2025

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Articles

Safar Redraws Middle Eastern Art Map at UBC鈥檚 MOA

Canadian Art 23 May, 2013

鈥淪afar鈥� is located in MOA鈥檚 Audain and O鈥橞rian galleries, and the delineation between the galleries marks a natural division between the two parts of the exhibition鈥攖he Audain is full of more visceral works, while the O鈥橞rian houses the more ephemeral pieces.

GAG Projects and Sutton Gallery at Art Dubai

Australian Art Collector 03 Apr, 2013

3 April 2013 | The seventh edition of Art Dubai (20- 23 March 2013) drew over 25,000 visitors to an art fair that is rapidly establishing itself as a leading contemporary art fair for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region.

On collaboration: Angela & Hossein Valamanesh and Raafat Ishak & Tom Nicholson

Frieze Magazine 20 Feb, 2013

As the title suggests, Raafat Ishak and Tom Nicholson’s collaborative project Proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon

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Coverage

鈥� ..When we encounter Ishak's paintings, we find ourselves negotiating such divergent attitudes to the image... 鈥�
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Sutton Gallery

鈥� ..Also on exhibition is Ishak's first video work, a one shot footage of an action that takes place in a stadium, comprising of a crowd of people standing and sitting around, flicking and passing a cubical... 鈥�
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Sutton Gallery

鈥� ..They are also different ways to promise a future, a constant undercurrent in Ishak's work, which inflects the quiet secrecy of his work with the allure of the world as another place... 鈥�
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Sutton Gallery

鈥� ..Ishak states, Apnea is a collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and a photograph generated through the ubiquitous acts of graduate research, experimentation, withdrawal, exclusion and fatigue... 鈥�
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Sutton Gallery