Fiona Rae Grotto
28 Apr—4 Jun 2005

Fiona Rae

Born 1963 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in London.

Education
1983-84 Croydon College of Art, London, UK
1984-87 Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Grants and Awards
2018 Royal Mail Stamp Design Commission for the 250th anniversary of Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2017 Curator of Invited Room, The 249th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2015 Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths, London, UK
2011-15 Professor of Painting for the Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2011-13 Tate Members’ Artist Commission, London, UK
2010 Curator of Invited Room, The 242nd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2007 Shortlisted for the Charles Wollaston Award, The 239th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2005-09 Appointed Tate Artist Trustee, London, UK
2005 Master Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
2003 BBC Art Site Installations Commissions, BBC Broadcasting House Public Art Program, London, UK
2002-05 Tate Modern Restaurant Commission, London, UK
2002

Elected to Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1993

Shortlisted for the Eliette von Karajan Prize for Young Painters, Austria
1991 Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2022
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Buchmann Lugano, Switzerland
2021
Centre d'art La Malmaison, Cannes, France (cat.)
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2020
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2018
Hakgojae Cheongdam, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2017
Buchmann Lugano
2016
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2015
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
2014
Buchmann Box, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Southampton City Art Gallery (cat.)
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham (cat.)
2013
Towner, Eastbourne, UK (cat.)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2012
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (cat.)
Leeds Art Gallery, UK (cat.)
2011
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (cat.)
2009
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (cat.)
2008
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (cat.)
2006
PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York (cat.)
2005
Buchmann Galerie, Köln (cat.)
2004
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (cat.)
2003
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (cat.)
2002
Carré dʼArt, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes (cat.)
2001
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
2000
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
fig-1, London (cat.)
1999
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya/ Japan (cat.)
1997
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
The British School at Rome, Rom
Saatchi Gallery. London (mit Gary Hume) (cat.)
1996
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (cat.)
1995
Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
1994
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
John Good Gallery, New York (cat.)
1993
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (cat.)
1992
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (cat.)
1991
Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
1990
Third Eye Center (Now Centre for Contemporary Arts), Glasgow
Pierre Bernard Gallery, Nice

Group Exhibitions

2022
Peinture:obsolescence déprogrammée. Licences libres., Musée de l’Hospice Saint Roch, Issoudun, France (cat.)
Belonging, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland (cat.)
2021
ColourSpace, Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome, Italy (cat.)
Wonderland, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
High Emission Zone, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Explorations in Paint, Royal Academy, London, UK
Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Kindred Spirits, The Harley Gallery, Worksop, UK
2020
UnRealism, Shoshana Wayne Gallery (online), Los Angeles, USA
Hier, Aujourd’hui, Demain: Works from the Mudam Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2019
Reason Gives No Answers: Selected Works from the Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London (cat.)
Stairway to Heaven: Abstraction Now, Coombs Contemporary, London, UK
Alles Farbe! Jörn Stoya und die Sammlung des Museum Morsbroich, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London, UK
2018
Content is a Glimpse, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin (cat.)
Women Power Protest, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
Darkness into Light: The Emotional Power of Art, Millenium Gallery, Museums Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Double Jeu, Musée d’Art et Archéologie d’Aurillac - Les Écuries Jardin des Carmes, France
Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe™, Sheffield, UK
Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
2017
Objects are closer than they appear, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
The 249th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
Park Hyatt Paris Vendome, Paris
2016
Zeichnung, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Drama Queens. Die Inszenierte Sammlung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Non Figuratif - un regain d’intérêt?, Abbaye Saint André - Centre d’Art Contemporain Meymac, France
Retour au meilleur des mondes, FRAC Auvergne, France
Conversation autour d'une collection. Collection Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat., Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, CH
The 248th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
Turn the Colour Down!, Turps Gallery, London, UK
Ce que fait le printemps avec les cerisiers (Pablo Neruda), Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2015
The 247th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
Imagining a University: Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
La Vie de Château. Œuvres de la Collection, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
La Colección: La Colección de Pintura Contemporánea de la Fundación Barrié por Primera Vez en Madrid, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
2014
Group Exhibition, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK
Weltenbummler - Abenteuer Kunst, Essl Museum - Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
(detail), H-Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand, Transition Gallery, London, UK, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK (cat.)
Here Today…, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK (cat.)
Prophetic Diagrams II, Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, NY, USA
As I run and run, happiness comes closer, Hôtel Beaubrun, Paris, France (cat.)
Bad Boy!, New Art Projects, London, UK
Between Worlds, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
The 246th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
Within / Beyond Borders, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon
2013
Art Britannia, Madonna Building, Miami, Florida, USA
Summer Saloon Show, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London, UK
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Here we go: a changing group show, Karsten Schubert, London
Prophetic Diagrams, George and Jörgen, London, UK
La Présence des Lucioles, La Collection, Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France
2012
RA Now, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
London Twelve, City Gallery Prague, The Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic (cat.)
The 244th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
Outside In, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Hors les murs, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brüssel
Sammlung Marx - Eine Auswahl, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin
2011
Colección de Pintura Contemporánea Internacional, Fundación Barrié, La Coruña, Spain (cat.)
Making a Scene, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK (cat.)
Within/Beyond Borders, Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece (cat.)
Unearthed, Warton House, London, UK
Between Film and Art, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany; Deutsche Kinemathek–Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
Not for Sale, Passage de Retz, Paris
The 243rd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
Collection: 25 ans et 1 été, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Die Sammlung Marx - Eine Auswahl, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz
2010
Rappel à l’Oeuvre, Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Paris, France
50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA (cat.)
40, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
ART, curated by Craig Martin, Galerie Haas und Fuchs, Berlin
New Art Now, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
The 242nd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Palm Paintings, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
…um so mehr, Kunsthalle Göppingen
Babel, FRAC Auvergne
2009
La Rose Pourpre du Caire, Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie d’Aurillac, France
Antes de Ayer y Pasado Mañana; o lo que Puede ser Pintura Hoy, MACUF: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Union Fenosa, La Coruña
Une Place au Soleil, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1986 - 2008, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; The Exchange, Penzance (cat.)
Splash the Stuff Down: Painting and Revelation, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Classified: Contemporary British Art from Tate Collection, Tate Britain, London
Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2008
Summer Show, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Toute la Collection du Frac Ile-de-France (ou presque), Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Out of Storage 1: Chosen Paintings from the Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Freeze 20, The Hospital Club, London
Contemporary Prints and Drawings, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
A Pace Menagerie, Pace Prints, New York
Paixóns Privadas, Visions Publicas, , Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (cat.)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
2007
Reset: Werke aus der Sammlung Marx, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
A Travers le Miroir (le secret), Musée d’Art et Archéologie d’Aurillac, France
Out of Art: from the collection of Ernesto Esposito, CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’Art, Biel, Switzerland
De leur temps (2) Art contemporain & collections privées en France, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble (cat.)
The 239th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (cat.)
Twilight Musings, One in the Other, London
100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
2006
VIP III: Arena der Abstraktion, Museum Morsbroich
Fiction @ Love / Forever Young Land, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Ultra New Vision of Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (cat.)
Piktogramme, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (cat.)
Hot Spring … In Autumn, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Full House: Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
2005
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Lorie Peters Lauthier Collects, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, College of Media Arts and Design, Drexel University Gallery, Philadelphia
Colours and Trips, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn and Taxis, Bregenz; Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen (cat.)
Revelation: Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Baroque and Neo-Baroque/The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Atrium 02 (DA2), Fundación Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca
Blumenstück, Künstlers Glück: vom Paradiesgärtlein zur Prilblume, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (cat.)
2004
Le Syndrome de Babylone, Centre d'Art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
Direct Painting – Neue Kunsthalle IV, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Art in New Spaces, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Summer Eyes/Summarize, Jan Weiner, Kansas City
Paranormal, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
2003
Group show, Buchmann Galerie, Köln
La Langue dans la Boue, Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (cat.)
Inaugural Group Show, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Paintings: Arturo Herrera, Dennis Hollingsworth, Fiona Rae, Juan Uslé, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne
New Abstract Painting/Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (cat.)
Talking Pieces: text und bild in der neuen kunst, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (cat.)
A Bigger Splash: Arte Britânica da Tate 1960–2003, Pavilhão Lucas, Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo (cat.)
2002
Peintures, contrainte ou recette, Galeries du Cloître, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
2001
Works on Paper, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool (cat.)
Künsterlerräume / Sammlerräume, Kunstverein St Gallen im Kunstmuseum Zürich
2000
Zeitgenossen/Contemporaries: Malerei/Paintings, Galerie Edition Kunsthandel Essenb
Aspectos de la Coleccion, Coleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Fundación La Caixa, Madrid
Europe: Different Perspectives in Painting/Europa: Differenti Prospettive nella Pittura, Museo Michetti, Palazzo San Domenico, Francavilla al Mare (cat.)
1999
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
45-99, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Reconciliations, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Color Me Blind, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1998
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.)
Inaugural Exhibition, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
UK Maximum Diversity, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz/ Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
1997
The Prophecy of Pop, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Confrontation, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France (cat.)
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
Paintings and Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Treasure Island, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.)
Waddington Galleries, London
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
1996
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford / The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh / The Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich / Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld / Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
1995
Des limites du tableau: les possibles des la peinture, Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Chateau de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne
From Here, Waddington Galleries und Karsten Schubert, London
Repicturing Abstraction, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Virginia, Richmond
Malerei. Sechs Bilder-Sechs Posititionen, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf
1994
New Painting From the Arts Council Collection, Gallery Oriel, Dublin, Ireland
Chance, Choice and Irony, Todd Gallery, London, UK / John Hansard Gallery, The University, Southampton, UK (cat.)
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery London
Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London
A Decade of Collecting: Patrons of New Arts Gifts 1983-1993, Tate Gallery London
1993
Hardcore (the first part), Factual Nonsense, London, UK
Nancy Haynes, James Hyde, Walter Obholzer, Fiona Rae, David Row, Karin Sander, Juan Uslé, Leslie Wayne, John Good Gallery, New York, USA
Color, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
Moving into View-Recent British Painting, Royal Festival Hall, London
1992
New Voices: Recent Paintings from the British Council Collection, Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium / Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg / Istanbul Greater City Municipality Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey / Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery, Izfas Gallery, Izmur, Turkey / Museo de Belles Artes, Bilbao, Spain / Santa Monica Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain / Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain / Veronicas, Sala des Exposiciones, Murcia, Spain / Pescaderia Vieja, Sala de Arte, Jerez, Spain (cat.)
Play between Fear and Desire, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York
The Contemporary Art Society: Eighty years of Collecting, Hayward Gallery, London, sowie: Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr; Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol City; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1991
Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit, Sidney, Janis Gallery, London
British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London
A View of London, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
Invitational, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition XVII., Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
La Metafisica della Luce, John Good Gallery, New York
1990
Aperto, 44th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow/ Hayward Gallery, London
Rudolf Fila, Tim Head, Alain Miller, Fiona Rae, Anthony Wilson, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Voorwerk 1, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
1989
Contemporary London, Galerie im Kreishaus, Cologne, Germany
Promises, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK / L’École de Nîmes, France (cat.)
New Year, New Talent ’89, Anderson O´Day Gallery, London, UK
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK (cat.)
Selected Collections

Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Arts Council England, UK
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
British Council, 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., USA
Essl Museum - Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France  
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Île-de-France, France
Fundación Barrié, A Coruña, Spain
Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Government Art Collection, UK
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Jerwood Collection, London, UK
Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds, UK
Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Tate Collection, UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Warwick University Art Collection, UK

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