Fiona raes biography
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Fiona Rae
British artist
Fiona Rae | |
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| Born | (1963-10-10) 10 October 1963 (age 61) Hong Kong |
| Known for | Painting |
Fiona RaeRA (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. Throughout her career, she has been known for having a portfolio of work that includes elements of energy, and complexity. Her work fryst vatten known for aiming at expanding the modern traditions of painting.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Rae was born in Hong Kong and also lived in Indonesia before moving to England in 1970. After moving to England she attended Downe House which is an all girls boarding school in Berkshire. She then 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
[edit]In 1988, she participated in Freeze, an art exhibition organised
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Fiona Rae
Goldsmiths alumnus and Turner Prize-nominated artist Fiona Rae, was awarded an honorary fellowship by Goldsmiths in 2015.
Fiona Rae is among the generation of artists who rose to prominence after graduating from Goldsmiths in the late 1980s. Rae studied an Art foundation course at Croydon College of Art from 1983-1984, and a BA Hons in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College from 1984-1987.
In 1991 Rae was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 1993 she was nominated for the Austrian Eliette Von Karajan Prize for Young Painters.
Her work is described as “challenging and expanding the modern conventions of painting” and is held in major public collections across the world.
Rae’s abstract paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions in museums, and galleries worldwide, with shows including 2014’s Painter, Painter at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art galleri and Southampton City Art Gallery; Fiona Rae: New Paintings, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (201
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Born in 1963 in Hong-Kong, Fiona Rae lives and works in London.
Fiona Rae graduated from Croydon School of Art, London (1984), and Goldsmiths College, London University (1987), alongside Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, and Sarah Lucas, with whom she was part of the Young British Artists group, which allowed for a rebirth of the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fiona Rae has become one of the foremost abstract painters of her generation, and is widely represented in prestigious public and private collections, such as the Tate Collection (UK); Royal Academy of Arts (UK); Fond National d'Art Contemporain (France); Centre Pompidou (France); Mudam (Luxembourg); Fundacio Caixa (Spain); Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain of Nîmes (France); le National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (USA); The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York (USA); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (USA);