Fiona Rae (b. 1963, Hong Kong) received her B.F.A. from Goldsmiths College, London in 1987. One year later, Damien Hirst included Rae in his now legendary group exhibition Freeze. In 1990, she was selected for the 44th Venice Biennale, and nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Britain, London in 1991. Soon after, she was short listed for the Eliette von Karajan Prize for Young Painters in Austria. The Saatchi Gallery exhibited Rae's work (with Gary Hume) in 1997, and later that year, because of her association with the Young British Artists, Rae was included in the Royal Academy's notorious 1997 travelling exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection. She was elected to The Royal Academy in 2002.