fifi rae
©2024
about
Fifi Rae is a believer in ghosts and a lover of all things blue. She is a student at UC Berkeley pursuing a BA in Art Practice with a minor in Art History. She was born in Nanjing, China, and grew up in Los Angeles, CA, but prefers the Bay Area. She investigates themes of multicultural identity, memory, family archives, and belonging in her work. While her primary medium is drawing, she experiments with and wants to explore further printmaking, ceramics, book art, photography, video, and multi-disciplinary installation. One day, she will blow glass, start a band as the drummer, and collage on every chair known to man. She loves collecting trinkets, orchids, physical media for music (mostly CDs), metro cards/tickets from different cities, photographs from strangers’ pasts, shells, and anything with polka dots and stripes.
Bio
Fifi Rae was born in 2003 in Nanjing, China, and moved to Los Angeles, CA when she was adopted at 8 months. She is pursuing her B.A. in Art Practice with a minor in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, expecting to graduate in May 2025. Fifi Rae has already been included in various important exhibitions including “Multiple Transparencies: ASCP Fall 2024 Show” at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA, where she was a gallery assistant for two years, and “Salon at the Triton 2023: 2D Art Competition and Exhibition” at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Additionally, she has collaborated on “We Are All Neighbors,” a public mural in Downtown Berkeley, CA commissioned by the Downtown Berkeley Association and Berkeley Art Studios. This year, she is interning at the Codex Foundation in Berkeley, CA, focusing on book arts and handmade publications. Upcoming shows include the “Senior Student Show: Spring 2025” at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Fifi Rae currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA, and hopes to expand her artist career to the San Francisco Bay Area.