Fiona Rae

Fiona Rae (born 1963) is a 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 (1983–84) and Goldsmiths College (1984–1987), where she completed a BA (Hons) Fine Art. In 1988 she participated in Freeze an exhibition of art 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...