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Born: 10 October 1963, Hong Kong
Elected RA: 28 May 2002
Category of Membership: Painter
Fiona Rae RA, 'The woman who can do self-expression will shine through all eternity', 2010. © the artist, courtesy Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Fiona Rae's painting is known for its restless energy, humour and complexity. Rae has created a distinctive painterly language based on her own invention and imagination, as well as being inspired by influences and sources from a vast and disparate image bank that includes Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymous Bosch, Willem de Kooning and Gerhard Richter; comics such as Krazy Kat and Little Nemo; Japanese animé, graphic design and kitsch imagery. Her paintings are as much about the expressive possibilities of paint on canvas as they are about the excesses and uncertainties of our visual culture.
Rae studied at Croydon College of Art from 1983 to 1984 and completed a BA Hons in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 1987. She participated in 'Freeze', the group show organised by Damien Hirst in London’s Docklands, 1988, which helped launch a generation of artists who became known as 'YBAs' (Young British Artists). Rae was shortlisted for the Turner Prize at the Tate in 1991. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and her work is held in prestigious public and private collections worldwide. Rae was appointed a Tate Artist Trustee between 2005 and 2009, and lives and works in London.
She was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in 2011.
Read an interview with Fiona Rae in RA Magazine Spring 2012
Recent Solo exhibitions
2013 Towner, Eastbourne
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2012 New Art Gallery, Walsall
2011 Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2010 The Pace Gallery, New York
2009 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2008 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2002-3 Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France
1997 The British School at Rome, Italy,
1993-4 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
1992 Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1990 Third Eye Centre (now Centre for Contemporary Art), Glasgow
Group shows
2010 'Babel', FRAC Auvergne, France
2009 'Classified: Contemporary British Art from Tate Collection', Tate Britain
2006 'Fiction@Love', Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China
2006 'Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2003 'Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2001 'Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting', Tate Liverpool
1997 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection', Royal Academy of Arts, London
1996 'Nuevas Abstracciones', Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1994 'Unbound', Hayward Gallery, London
1990 'Aperto, 44th Biennale di Venezia', Venice
1990 'The British Art Show 1990', McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
www.fiona-rae.com
