Rubell Museum Miami
This is How the Light Gets In
Vanessa Raw’s presentation at the Rubell Museum Miami marks her first exhibition in the United States as well as her first institutional show.
In these newly commissioned, large-scale works, Raw’s distinctive layered brushwork and expressive use of colour depict a dream-like, all-female world—an earthly paradise where the natural world is benevolent and sentient, and where female desire is central. A former triathlete, Raw’s practiced mastery of her own body transfers to her work on canvas. Her figures are tranquil and at ease but have agency. They revel in the company of each other and in the landscape that is lush and soft and ripe with colour—paradise found.
Rubell Museum Miami
1100 NW 23 ST
Miami, FL 33127
United States
Dates
2 December 2024 – 2 December 2025
About
Raw was awarded the Arts Council Collection Frieze Acquisitions Fund in 2025. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Rubell Museum, Miami (This Is How the Light Gets In, 2024), Casa Lamm, Mexico City (2026), and Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate (On Earth We Weren’t Meant to Stay, 2024), where she is represented. In 2023, she was nominated by Tracey Emin for a solo presentation as part of Frieze London’s Artist-to-Artist section.
Raw earned a BA in Fine Art from Loughborough University and was awarded a studio at TKE Studios in 2022. She lives and works in Margate, England.
