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Fiona Rae - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Fiona Rae in her studio, London, UK, 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.

Fiona Rae (b. 1963 in Hong Kong) studied at Croydon College of Art and received her Bachelor of Arts from Goldsmiths College in London. In 1988, Rae, along with many of those who would become the Young British Artists, participated in the seminal show ‘Freeze,’ in London. Rae exhibited in the Aperto at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1991. In 2002, the artist was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where she was subsequently appointed Professor of Painting from 2011 to 2015.

Over an illustrious career spanning almost four decades, Rae’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France; Centre d’Art La Malmaison, Cannes, France; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland and Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom, amongst others.

Rae has been included in exhibitions in numerous international institutions such as the Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain; Fundació La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China; Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Institute of Contemporary Arts of Singapore, Singapore; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China; Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom; Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom, amongst others.

Fiona Rae’s work may be found in the public collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; British Council, London, United Kingdom; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Government Art Collection, United Kingdom; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom; and elsewhere.

The artist lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

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