About

Alpana Rai is an Australian abstract landscape artist whose vibrant and dynamic abstract landscapes capture the essence of Australia's natural beauty. She describes her paintings as a mingling of places she has experienced and energies she senses, inviting viewers to visually enter and bask in her creations. Her work serves as a translator, connecting the viewer and the painter through recognizable artifacts that evoke memories or activate new thoughts.

Alpana is intrigued by human beings' ability to fantasize and the concept of a collective unconsciousness. Her abstract landscapes and compositions are not meant to be fully understood but rather to elicit a sense of familiarity and fiction in the viewer's experience.

Her paintings feature a flurry of connecting brushstrokes, blending and flowing together to create a vibrant and organic landscape. 

Since 2019, Alpana Rai has exhibited extensively in the Melbourne metropolitan area. In 2021, she obtained certifications in Modern Art and Ideas, as well as Post-war Abstract Painting, from the prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Alpana has achieved recognition for her talent and has been winner of Unearthed Art Prize of Art to Art Gallery and selected as a Online finalist for the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize in 2022 and 2023. , Art Red Hill in the Mornington Peninsula, and the Portland Art Show in Victoria. Alpana's dedication to her craft is evident in her continuous participation in art shows and exhibition Her artwork has been showcased in various group exhibitions, including the Affordable Art Fair in Sydney and Melbourne's. Her works c an be found in private collections of art collectors in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia & Italy. As an Abstract Landscape artist she has following achievements:

Prizes

Winner   Art to Art Unearthed Art prize 2024

Finalist   Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize Finalist 2023

Finalist   Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize Finalist 2022

Exhibitions

2024

• Affordable Art Fair with Art to Art Gallery, Sydney
• Affordable Art Fair, Brisbane
• Unearthed, Art to Art Gallery, Melbourne

2023

• Affordable Art Fair , Melbourne
• Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
• Art Red Hill, Art Red Hill ,Mornington Peninsula
• Portland Art Show, Portland, Victoria

2022

• Affordable Art Fair, , Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
• Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
• Art Red Hill 2022, Online
• A Room With A View, Art Lovers Australia, Melbourne
• Portland Art Show , Potland

2021

• Primo Red 2, C & H Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
• "Emerging Women" group exhibition organised by Artisan society, Box hill community art centre, Victoria
• Moonee Valley Art Show 2021, Virtual art show
• smArt, The Tack gallery, Mt. Waverley, Victoria
• Kernart Prize, online art show
• Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo, Victoria
• Off The Cuff Exhibition,, The Hut Gallery, Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Victoria
• $50-$500 Exhibition, , Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria
• JOY Exhibition by Artisan Society, Space2b Art Space Gallery, Melbourne
• Mornington Art Show, Mornington Art Show

2020

• "Deck The Walls", Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
• Twin Rivers Lions VIRTUAL Art Show, Twin Rivers Lions VIRTUAL Art Show

2019

• "Deck The Walls", Oakhill Gallery, Mornington , Victoria

Education

2021

• Certification: Modern Art & Ideas, The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA)
• Certification :In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting, The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA)

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