Raphaella Spence

Biography

In 1997 she completed her studies at the St. George's British International School (SGBIS) and then dedicated herself full-time to painting. Spence concentrated on developing her technical skills and influenced by views of the Umbrian countryside she turned towards a new kind of realism closely associated to photorealism. In 2003 she had her first solo exhibition in the United States at the Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery in New York. Since then her paintings have been included in numerous group survey exhibitions including the Vero Beach Museum Of Art, Vero Beach, FL (U.S.A.), MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ (U.S.A.), Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (USA), The Roberson Museum of Arts & Sciences, Binghamton, NY (USA), Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (Italy), Musei Capitolini, Rome (Italy), Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (USA), Manhattanville College, New York, NY (USA).

Spence has received critical recognition for her work in widely circulated newspapers and magazines including The International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, The Artist"s Magazine, Rh+ artmagazine, Dan’s Papers, Il Messaggero, Corriere Della Sera, ART + Design Magazine, Panorama, La Repubblica, American Art Collector, etc.

In April 2011 Dan’s Papers, dedicated the front cover to Raphaella Spence.

Solo exhibitions

2014

A Million Lights, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2012

Night and Day, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2011

Venice Reprise, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2009

Beijing, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2007

Crossroads, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2005

Bridge of Colors, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2004

Solo Show, Albemarle Gallery, Londra (Inghilterra)

2003

Stolen Dreams, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

Selected group exhibitions

2014

Painted Illusions: Hyperrealism 1967-2012, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Photorealism: The Sydney and Walfa Besthoff Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (U.S.A.)

Photorealism, The Everyday Illuminated, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (U.S.A.),

2013

Hyperrealism 1967-2012, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Hyperrealism 1967-2012, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England

Photorealism Revisited, OKCMOA - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, USA

2012

Hyperrealism 1967-2012, Kunsthalle Tübingen Museum, Tübingen, Germany

Photorealism, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada

Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ, USA

All In, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, USA

2011

New Photorealism, Persterer Contemporary Fine Art, Zurich (Switzerland)

2010

Real(ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (U.S.A.)

2009

Photorealist Painting, Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, New York (U.S.A.)

2008

Arte Contemporanea per I Rifugiati, UNHCR, Sotheby's Milano (Italia)

Unforeseen Reflections, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2007

Arte Contemporanea per i Rifugiati, Musei Capitolini, Roma (Italia)

New Cityscape Paintings, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2006

Three person show, Albemarle Gallery, Londra (Inghilterra)

2005

New Photorealists, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (U.S.A.)

Personal Places, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

2004

The Prague Project, Roberson Museum of Art, Binghamton, NY (U.S.A.)

"New Photorealist" Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

Summer is..., Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)

Blow Up, St. Paul's Gallery, Birmingham, (Inghilterra)

2003

Re-representing Realism, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (U.S.A.)

Iperrealisti, Museo Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (Italia)

2002

Night & Day, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)