Saied Dai RP, NEAC
Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Saied is a figurative Artist living and working in Bath. Over the years, he has had many commissions, as well as mixed and solo exhibitions in the UK and abroad.
After being elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2004, he won the prestigious Ondaatje Prize and Gold Medal for Portraiture twice, in 2006 and 2022. He was also the recipient of the William Lock Prize in 2023. He was elected a member of The New English Art Club in 2009.
Biography
ART EDUCATION
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post Graduate Diploma, 1980 – 1984
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Fine Art, Painting, 1976 – 80
COMMISSIONS
Dominic Oliver, Headmaster of Lancing College, 2025
Dr Richard Haass, for The Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 2024
The Rt Hon Theresa May, Houses of Parliament, 2022
Double portrait of Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockleford for Roehampton University, 2021
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, The Foundling Museum, 2019
Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, London, Architectural Commission, 2019
Portrait of Master, Debby Ounsted, TheMercers Company, London, 2018
Dame Carol Black, Newnham College, Cambridge, 2018
Dame Monica Mason, The National Portrait Gallery, 2013
Dame Stephanie Shirley, Balliol College, Oxford, 2012
The Very Reverend Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christchurch College, Oxford, 2012
Major Charles Marriot, Yeoman to the Queen’s Body Guard, 2007
Sir Christopher Frayling (Chairman of ‘The Arts Council’, Rector of ‘The Royal College of Art’, London), 2007
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
NEAC group show,David Simon Contemporary, Somerset, 2025
Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal Society Of Portrait Painters, 2025
Portraits, a group show, Messum’s, London, 2025
Panter and Hall, Pall Mall, London, 2025
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, 2010, 2024
London Art Fair, with Panter and Hall, 2024
Paul Scott Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2023
In the Mind’s Eye, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2023
Capturing Life: A Century of The New English Art Club, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 2023
Beetles Gallery, Mixed Show, 2020, 2021, 2022
Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2019
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, 2000 – 2026
The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, 2009 – 2023
New Perspectives, Messums Wiltshire, 2018
Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2017
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, 2016
Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, 2016
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2012, 2016
Toronto Art Fair, with Messum’s, 2014 and 2015
Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London, 2014
National Portrait Gallery, B.P Portrait Award Exhibition, 2013
Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London, Solo Show, 2011
Pure Gold: 50 Years of the Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, 2011
Royal West of England Academy, Open Exhibition, invited Artist, 2010
The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life, Messum’s, London,
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Solo Show, 2009
Frost and Reed, London, 2009
Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, group exhibitions, 2005- 2009
Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath, group exhibition, 2008
Alan Cluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale, Berkshire, Three Man Show, 2008
Girton College, Cambridge, People’s Portrait Collection, 2008
Quest Gallery, Bath, Solo Exhibition, 2008
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Prince of Wales Drawing School Award, 2008
Holburne Museum, Bath, The Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize, 2006 and 2004
Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show, 2006
National Portrait Gallery, Selected works from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, 2000 & 2006Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show, 2005
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 1990 – 2016
Nairi Sahakian Gallery, London
B.P. Portrait Award Exhibition (Prize Winner) The National Portrait Gallery, London
Young Contemporaries, (Prize Winner) Christie’s, London
Sue Rankin Gallery, London
Agnew’s Fine Arts, London
PRIZES
The William Lock Portrait Prize,Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2023
Ondaatje Prize and Gold Medal for Portraiture, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2021 and 2006
RP Portrait Prize, Mall Galleries, 2018
Changing Faces Prize, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2014
The Prince of Wales Drawing School Award, for Portrait Drawing, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2007