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Alessandro Raho (born 1971, Nassau, Bahamas[1]) is a British artist. His work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Alessandro Raho | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Education | Goldsmith College |
Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Raho moved to London and attended Croydon College (1989–90) and then Goldsmith College, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Fine Art.[1] In 1995, he was included in the Young British Artist showcase Brilliant! at Walker 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 called Unseen Landscapes,[6] in 2002, he was in the important Painting on the Move exhibition in at the Kunsthalle Basel. In 2003, exhibited his work at Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City, where his portraits received critical attention of The New York Times.[7]
In 2004, he was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London to paint a portrait of English actress Dame 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 by Damien Hirst, and has been shown in Tokyo, New York, and Salzburg.[11] Two of his pencil drawings, Catherine (2003) and Ewan (2004), are in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as part of a 2005 donation by the Judith Rothschild Foundation.[12]
In 2014 Raho was nominated and short-listed for the John Moores Painting Prize. The prize was a subject of a BBC 4 documentary.[13]
Alessandro Raho is represented by Alison 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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