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Fiona Rae (born 10 October 1963) is a Hong Kong-born British artist; she is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the 1990s.
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.
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.
She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2002 and is referred to as a Royal Academician allowing the use of RA after her name. In 2002 she was appointed a Tate Artist Trustee between 2005 and 2009. She was commissioned by Tate Modern to create a 10-metre triptychShadowland 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.
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."
Public collections
The Tate Collection holds five works by Rae. These are:
‘Untitled (yellow)’, 1990
‘Untitled (grey and brown)’, 1991
‘Untitled (emergency room)’, 1996
‘Night Vision', 1998
‘Shadowland', 2002
Rae’s works are also held in the following collections:
Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery; 'Dark Star', (2000)
British Council, London, UK
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Fondation – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Ile de France, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Fundació 'la Caixa', Barcelona, Spain
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart: Marx Collection, Berlin, Germany
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York City
Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 1996;
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK ; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum, New York City, 1997–2000;
Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2001
Pictograms, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, 2006;
Fiction@Love, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China, 2006;
Classified: Contemporary British Art from Tate Collection, Tate Britain, London, 2009
Publications
Aside from numerous exhibition catalogues, Rae’s paintings are discussed in many publications including:
2012 – Fiona Rae: maybe you can live on the moon in the next century, London, UK: Ridinghouse in association with Leeds Art Gallery.
2010 – Pooke, Grant, Contemporary British Art: An Introduction, London, UK: Routledge
2010 – Barret, Terry, Making Art: Form and Meaning, New York City: McGraw-Hill Publishers
