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Clifford Rainey
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<h2 id="public-art">Public art</h2> <p>He has realized a number of large-scale public art commissions, including at <a href="/facts/Liverpool_Lime_Street_railway_station/7uN7ETWq">Liverpool Lime Street railway station</a>, <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a>, The Jeddah Monument, <a href="/facts/Saudi_Arabia/uyUpe1J2">Saudi Arabia</a>, and The 911 Communication Center, <a href="/facts/San_Francisco/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2> <p>His work has exhibited extensively, with exhibitions in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York</a>, <a href="/facts/Dublin/Fv8ezm8a">Dublin</a>, London, <a href="/facts/Dallas/f3c7MQn0">Dallas</a>, <a href="/facts/Vienna/NSpIURsA">Vienna</a>, <a href="/facts/Tokyo/GTvuw4ct">Tokyo</a> and <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">Germany</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> His work is featured in numerous public collections, including the <a href="/facts/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum/vUMjeHBn">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> in London, the <a href="/facts/Corning_Museum_of_Glass/WDeAeTBU">Corning Museum of Glass</a> in <a href="/facts/Corning_(city)%2c_New_York/93uHH5cv">Corning, New York</a>, the <a href="/facts/M._H._de_Young_Memorial_Museum/BsHNsH6g">M. H. de Young Memorial Museum</a> in San Francisco, and the <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art/B6X414C4">Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> as well as in the permanent collections of the <a href="/facts/Museum_of_Arts_%2526_Design/zAttJfbv">Museum of Arts & Design</a>, New York, <a href="/facts/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2c_Boston/PerM3TTv">Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</a>, the <a href="/facts/Irish_Museum_of_Modern_Art/q3tPJvFl">Irish Museum of Modern Art</a>, Dublin, and the <a href="/facts/Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts/m9o57hyx">Montreal Museum of Fine Arts</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <p>Rainey is a recipient of the 2000 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award and the 2009 Urban Glass Outstanding Achievement Award, New York.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <ul><li><i>Head</i> (1986), Pencil and pastel on paper, <a href="/facts/Arts_Council_of_Northern_Ireland/k13c51CU">Arts Council of Northern Ireland</a> collection</li> <li><i>Palm Springs</i>, Copper, brass and glass box on marble plinth, Arts Council of Northern Ireland collection</li> <li><i>Shy Boy</i> (2005), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Clifford Rainey". Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection Artists. Retrieved 6 July 2009. <a href="http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm" target="_blank">http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Clifford Rainey". Bullseye Gallery. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104159/http://www.bullseyegallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=366&Object=#GeneralInfo" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104159/http://www.bullseyegallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=366&Object=#GeneralInfo</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Clifford Rainey". Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection Artists. Retrieved 6 July 2009. <a href="http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm" target="_blank">http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Clifford Rainey". Bullseye Gallery. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. 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Retrieved 6 July 2009. <a href="http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm" target="_blank">http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art133.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Clifford Rainey". Bullseye Gallery. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104159/http://www.bullseyegallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=366&Object=#GeneralInfo" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104159/http://www.bullseyegallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=366&Object=#GeneralInfo</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Clifford Rainey". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010. 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