Lily Raines 


2024  2023  Installation  About

Bio:


Baltimore-based painter, Lily Raines (b. 2003), uses representational oil painting
to generate dialogues on queer sexuality and mortality. She is currently pursuing
a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts in Painting.  Her work
has been exhibited in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Charlotte, and Seattle,
including a solo show at the Gateway Gallery in Baltimore. Informed by her
transgender identity and bodily alienation, Raines seeks representation
through sublimation of self, forming relationships with media-objects and
narratives, with an emphasis on queer imagery of the Postwar.


Contact:


email: lilyraines.artist@gmail.com
instagram: @handsome__fairy

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Solo Exhibitions:


2024     Touch; Kiss; Quiet - Gateway Gallery at MICA, Baltimore, MD


Select Group Exhibitions:


2025    What Are You Doing in My Dream? - Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC


2024     Ebb & Flow - the Lazarus Center at MICA, Baltimore, MD
               the EXPERIMENT - NightOwl Gallery, Baltimore, MD
               Growing Pains - Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
               it feels right to me - Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD


2023     Blink, And You’ll Miss It - France-Merrick Foundation Gallery, Baltimore, MD
               Undergraduate Juried Exhibition - Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD - Juried by
                           Michael Benevento and Inés Sanchez de Lozada
               102° - MICA Main Building 3rd Floor Gallery, Baltimore, MD 


2022     Personal Directions - Leake Studio, MICA Main Building, Baltimore, MD


Education: 


2021-25.  BFA, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art      ONGOING


Awards


2024    Nora and Eugene Leake Scholarship
    

2021     Visionary Artist Award - Maryland Institute College of Art