Alessandro Raho | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
| Education | Goldsmith College |
Alessandro Raho (born 1971,Nassau, Bahamas[1]) is a British artist. His work has been shown at theNational Portrait Gallery inLondon.
Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Raho moved to London and attendedCroydon College (1989–90) and thenGoldsmith College, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Fine Art.[1] In 1995, he was included in theYoung British Artist showcaseBrilliant! atWalker Art Center, Minneapolis.[2]
In early 1996, he was hailed as one of the great promises in British art,[3] and had expositions noted in the American[4] and the French press.[5] In 2001, Raho participated in an exposition calledUnseen Landscapes,[6] in 2002, he was in the important Painting on the Move exhibition in at theKunsthalle Basel. In 2003, exhibited his work at Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City, where his portraits received critical attention ofThe New York Times.[7]
In 2004, he was commissioned by theNational Portrait Gallery in London to paint a portrait of English actressDame Judi Dench.[8] Imagining Dench as a "wealthy housewife," he painted her in a way that "thrilled and flattered" her.[9][10]
Raho's work is collected byDamien Hirst, and has been shown in Tokyo, New York, and Salzburg.[11] Two of his pencil drawings,Catherine (2003) andEwan (2004), are in the collection of New York'sMuseum of Modern Art, as part of a 2005 donation by the Judith Rothschild Foundation.[12]
In 2014 Raho was nominated and short-listed for theJohn Moores Painting Prize. The prize was a subject of a BBC 4 documentary.[13]
Alessandro Raho is represented byAlison Jacques Gallery, London.[14]
Raho paints portraits of friends and family, seascapes and landscapes and still lives. He uses fine oil painting with a fresh contemporary approach.[15] His paintings and photographs were described as dealing with "narrative, nostalgia and desire," and he employs intricate technical processes "to make his paintings luxuriously photographic and his photographs deceptively painterly."[16]
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