Fiona Rae

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 Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery; Fiona Rae: New Paintings, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2013); Fiona Rae, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2011); and 2006’s You are the Young and the Hopeless, PaceWildenstein, New York. 

She served as a Tate Artist Trustee from 2005-09 and in 2011 was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.