Rachel Whiteread

born London, England 1963

Rachel Whiteread - Born in 1963, Rachel Whiteread studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic and shifted her focus to sculpture as a student at London's Slade School of Fine Art (1985–87).

In the early 1990s she began to receive international attention as part of a stylistically diverse group referred to as the Young British Artists. Among her contemporaries, Whiteread has distinguished herself for creating an innovative body of work that reflects a quiet, contemplative spirit, receiving such accolades as the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize in 1993 and a medal at the 1997 Venice Biennale.

Throughout Europe and the United States, her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries, and she has realized several public art projects. Most recently, in the summer of 2001, her work was featured in a retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and a public sculpture entitled Monument was unveiled in Trafalgar Square.

Select Timeline

Select Exhibitions

• 2005 - Rachel Whiteread: Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, London
• 2005 - Walls, Doors, Floors and Stairs, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
• 2004 - Rachel Whiteread in Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2003 - Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
• 2002 - Haunch of Venison, London, England
• 2002 - Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• 2001 - Serpentine Gallery, London
• 2001 - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
• 2001 - Guggenheim Commissions, Berlin, Bilbao, and New York
• 2000 - Watertower Drawings, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
• 2000 - Judenplatz: Place of Remembrance, Vienna, Austria
• 2000 - Daybed, A/D, New York
• 1998 - Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
• 1998 - Water Tower Project, Public Art Fund, New York
• 1997 - Sensation, Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London
• 1997 - Reina Sofia, Madrid
• 1997 - Skulpture Projekte, Munster, Germany
• 1997 - British Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice
• 1996 - Rachel Whiteread Karsten Schubert Ltd, London (in collaboration with Charles Booth Clibborn)
• 1996 - Rachel Whiteread: Sculptures Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
• 1995 - Rachel Whiteread: Untitled (Floor), Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
• 1994 - Rachel Whiteread: Zeichnungen, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
• 1994 - Rachel Whiteread: Skulpturen/Sculptures, Kunsthalle, Basel
• 1993 - Rachel Whiteread: Zeichnungen, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
• 1992 - Rachel Whiteread: Recent Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
• 1992 - Rachel Whiteread: Sculptures, Centre Cultural, Fundacion Caja Pensiones, Barcelona
• 1992 - Metropolis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
• 1992 - Doubletake, Hayward Gallery, London
• 1991 - Arnolfini Gallery Bristol
• 1988 - Carlyle Gallery, London

Select Artwork

• Wait - 2005
• Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) - 1995
• Untitled (Torso) - 1991
• Untitled (Pink Mattress) - 1992
• Modern Chess Set - 2005
• IN OUT – IX - 2004
• Daybed - 1999

Quotes

Publications

• Rachel Whiteread - by Ekhard Schneider, Rachel Whiteread, Mario Codognato, Kunsthaus Bregenz (January 30, 2006)
• Tate Modern Artists: Rachel Whiteread (Modern Artists) - by Charlotte Mullins, Tate (June 2, 2004)
• The Art of Rachel Whiteread - by Chris Townsend, Rachel Whiteread, Thames & Hudson (November 30, 2004)
• Rachel Whiteread: House - by Editors of Phaidon Press, Phaidon Press (October 19, 1995)
• Rachel Whiteread: Looking Up - by Louise Neri, Scalo Publishers (September 1999)
• Rachel Whiteread: EMBANKMENT (Unilever) - by Catherine Wood, Tate Publishing (March 1, 2006)

Quick Facts

• First woman to win the Turner Prize
• A British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts

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