Fiona Rae

Fiona Rae

Untitled (yellow) (1990)
Born (1963-10-10) 10 October 1963
Hong Kong
Known for Painting
Patron(s) Charles Saatchi

Fiona Rae RA (born 10 October 1963)[1] is a Hong Kong-born British artist; she is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the 1990s.

Life and career

Rae was born in Hong Kong and also lived in Indonesia before moving to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art to study a Foundation Course (1983–1984) and Goldsmiths College (1984–1987), where she completed a BA (Hons) Fine Art.

Young British Artist

In 1988, she participated in Freeze, an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst in London Docklands; the exhibition helped launch a generation of artists who became known as Young British Artists or YBAs.[2]

In 1991, Rae was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, and in 1993 she was nominated for the Austrian Eliette Von Karajan Prize for Young Painters.[3]

She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2002 and is referred to as a Royal Academician[4] allowing the use of RA after her name. In 2002 she was appointed a Tate Artist Trustee between 2005 and 2009.[5] She was commissioned by Tate Modern to create a 10-metre triptych Shadowland for the restaurant there in 2002.

In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.[6]

Rae is represented by Timothy Taylor Gallery, London; Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and The Pace Gallery, New York. Rae has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries internationally and her work is held in public and private collections worldwide. Of her work, William Corwin summarises, "Rae's paintings are very much objects to be admired; windows into worlds in which she is mistress, giving the viewer over to a semi-recognizable, occasionally comforting, but mostly alien dreamscape."[7]

Public collections

The Tate Collection holds five works by Rae. These are:

Rae’s works are also held in the following collections:

Exhibitions

Following the success of 'Freeze' in 1988, Rae's paintings have appeared in numerous solo and group shows internationally.

Solo shows include

Group Shows include

Publications

Aside from numerous exhibition catalogues, Rae’s paintings are discussed in many publications including:

References

  1. Royal Academy of Arts: Fiona Rae RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts, accessdate: 29 August 2014
  2. Young British Artists- Retrieved 15 January 2011
  3. Fiona Rae biography Timothy Taylor Gallery; Retrieved 15 January 2011
  4. Royal Academicians
  5. "Fiona Rae: Tate Trustee". Tate.
  6. "Tracey Emin to become Professor of Drawing at RA". BBC. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  7. Corwin, William (June 2012). "Letter from Leeds: Windows and Doors". The Brooklyn Rail.
  8. Birmingham Museum -
  9. Hirshhorn Museum -Retrieved 15 January 2011
  10. Royal Academy -Retrieved 15 January 2011
  11. Southampton City Art Gallery
  12. "Fiona Rae: maybe you can live on the moon in the next century". Ridinghouse. Retrieved 5 August 2012.

External links

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