Painter producing highly finished, realistic works, as in dumbpop, Jerwood Gallery, 1998–9. Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Raho did a foundation diploma at Croydon College of Art, 1989–90, then an honours degree in fine art, Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1991–4. Group shows included Don’t Wake Up, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, 1994, and False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Italy, 1997. Maureen Paley showed him solo from 1995, later ones including Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy, 1997, and Asprey Jacques, 2000. In 2005, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled Raho’s informal, full-length portrait of the actress Dame Judi Dench. In it, he attempted to “trap something I saw in her while she waited in the main hall, unaware of me.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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