Rachel Whiteread

About the Artist

Whiteread is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, known for her intimately scaled sculptures of everyday objects – typically cast from plaster, resin, rubber, or concrete – as well as her major outdoor public commissions and monumental sculptural works such as House in London (1993-94), Water Tower in New York (1998), and Holocaust Memorial in Vienna (2000). 

Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize (1993) and to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition in the British Pavilion (1997). A major retrospective of her work was co-organised by Tate Britain (2017-18) and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (2018-19). 

She is known for her resonant and intimately scaled sculptures of everyday objects, typically cast from plaster, resin or concrete. She has increasingly been drawn to architectural structures, made up of single or multiple elements, shown both within galleries and in remote landscape settings internationally. Her sculptural vocabulary has expanded to include constructed as well as cast elements, while retaining a focus on the intrinsic memory of objects and environments, isolated in space.   

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