Ms Rachel Whiteread, CBE's Biography

Ms Rachel Whiteread, CBE's Professional Career

Career

artist and sculptor; involved in teaching on various postgrad and undergrad courses; Hon DLitt Brighton Poly 1998; Solo Exhibitions incl: Carlile Gall London 1988, Ghost (Chisenhale Gall London) 1990, Arnolfini Gall Bristol 1991, Karsten Schubert Ltd London 1991, Rachel Whiteread Recent Sculpture (Luhring Augustine Gall NY) 1992, House (E London) 1993, Basel Kunsthalle (Switzerland) 1994, ICA Philadelphia (USA) 1995, ICA Boston (USA) 1995, Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life (Tate Gall Liverpool) 1996-97, Reina Sofia (Madrid) 1997, Water Tower Project (Public Art Fund, NY) 1998, Anthony d'Offay Gall London 1998, Rachel Whiteread (Luhring Augustine NY) 1999, Holocaust Memorial (Judenplatz Vienna) 2000, Fourth Plinth Project (Trafalgar Square London) 2001, Rachel Whiteread (Serpentine Gallery London and Scot Nat Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh) 2001, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum (Berlin, touring exhibition) 2001, Haunch of Venison London 2002, Room 101 (V&A) 2003, Koyanagi Gall Tokyo 2003, Luhring Augustine NY 2003, MOMA Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Sao Paolo Brazil 2003-04, Kunsthaus Bregenz Austria 2005, Embankment (Turbine Hall Tate Modern) 2005, Rachel Whiteread (Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art Naples), Rachel Whiteread (Galleria Lorcan O'Neill Rome) 2006 and (Centro Arte Contemporaneo Malaga) 2007, Rachel Whiteread: Bibliography (Luhring Augustine NY) 2006, Rachel Whiteread August Seeling Prize Exhibition (Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg) 2007, Rachel Whiteread (Gagosian Gallery LA) 2008, Rachel Whiteread: Place (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) 2008, Rachel Whiteread: drawings (Hammer Museum LA, Nasher Sculpture Centre Dallas and Tate Britain) 2010; Selected Group Exhibitions incl: Whitworth Young Contemporaires Manchester 1987, Riverside Open London 1988, Whitechapel Open London 1989, Deichtorhallen Hamburg 1989-90, British Art Show (touring) 1990, Karsten Schubert Ltd London 1990, Metropolis (Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin) 1991, Broken English (Serpentine Gall) 1991, Gp Show (Luhring Augustine NY) 1991, Turner Prize Exhibition (Tate) 1991 and 1993, Double Take (Hayward and Kunsthalle Vienna) 1992, Documenta IX (Kassel Germany) 1992, Carnegie International (USA) 1995, Br Pavillion Venice Biennale 1997, Skulpture Projekte (Münster Germany) 1997, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection (Royal Acad of Arts and Touring 1999) 1997, Wounds (Moderna Museet Stockholm) 1998, Displacements: Miroslaw Balka, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread (Art Gall of Ontario Toronto) 1998, Towards Sculpture (Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon) 1998, REAL/LIFE: New British Art (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Japan and touring) 1998, Claustrophobia (IKON Gall Birmingham and touring) 1998, Le Musée à l'heure anglaise: Sculptures de la collection du British Council 1965-1998 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes) 1999, House of Sculpture (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Texas) 1999, Sincerely Yours (Astrup Fearnley MOMA Oslo) 2000, Le temps vite (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris) 2000, La forma del mondo/la fine del monde (Padiglione d'arte contemporanea Milan) 2000, Shadow of Reason (Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna Italy) 2000, The Language of Things (Kettles Yard Cambridge), Double Vision (Galerie fuer Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig), Public Offerings (Museum of Contemporary Art LA), Century City (Tate Modern London) 2001, Lost and Found 2 (Kulturhuset Stockholm) 2001, Electrify Me! (Friedrich Petzel Gall NY) 2001, Double Vision (Galerie für Zeitgenosaische Kunst Leipzig) 2001, Public Offerings (MoCA LA) 2001, Collaborations with Parkett; 1984 to Now (MoMA NY) 2001, Beautfiul Productions: Art to Play, Art to Wear, Art to Own (Whitechapel Gall London) 2001, Wall & Whiteread (Kukje Gall Seoul) 2002, To Be Looked At (MOMA NY) 2002, Sphere: Loans for the Inivisible Museum (Sir John Soane's Museum London) 2002, The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art (ICA Philadelphia) 2002, Conversation?: Recent Acquisitions of the Van Abbemuseum (The Factory, Acad of Fine Arts Athens) 2002, The Physical World: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (Gagosian Gall NY) 2002, Beautiful Productions: Parkett Collaborations and Editions since 1984 (Irish MOMA Dublin) 2002, Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture (Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice) 2002, Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century (Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg and Les Abattoirs Toulouse) 2002, Days Like These (Tate Britain London) 2003, The Snow Show (Lapland, Finland) 2004, Scultura Leggera - Light Sculpture (Vicenza), Rachel Whiteread: Sculpture (Gagosian Gall London) 2005, Part Object Part Sculpture (Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio State Univ) 2005-06, Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin (Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art Cornell Univ) 2005-06, Eccentric Modern (Fndn To-Life Inc Exhibition Space NY) , Art of Chess (Gary Tatintsian Gall Moscow), Pure (Sean Kelly NY) 2006, The Great Collections: The Guggenheim (Kunsthalle Bonn), More Than the World: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection (Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo), New Dimensions (John Berggruen Gall San Francisco) 2006-07, Responding to Khan: A Sculpture Conversation (Yale Univ Art Gall) 2007; Awards The Elephant Trust 1989, GLA Prodn Grant 1989, nominated Turner Prize 1991, DAAD Stipendium Berlin 1992, winner Turner Prize 1993, Venice Biennale Award for Best Young Artist 1997, Nord LB Art Prize 2004, August Seeling Sculpture Prize 2007

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