Neil Raitt, born in Leicester in 1986, studied Fine Art at Norwich University College of the Arts before earning his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Catlin Art Prize, followed by the Northern Trust Acquisition Prize in 2016. Raitt has exhibited internationally, with notable shows at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas and the Centre d’Art Contemporain La Halle des Bouchers in Vienne. His work is held in the permanent collections of esteemed institutions including the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Saatchi Collection, London; and the Frank-Suss Collection, London.