1963 - Nasce em Londres
1982-5 - Brighton Polytechnic, Pintura
1985-7 - Slade School of Fine Art, Londres, Escultura. Mora e trabalha em Londres

PRÊMIOS
1992-3 - DAAD Fellowship, Berlin
1993 - Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London

EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS E PROJETOS

• 1988 - Carlile Gallery, Londres
• 1990 - Ghost, Chisenhale Gallery, Londres
• 1991 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  Karsten Schubert Ltd, Londres
• 1992 - Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas Recentes, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Nova Iorque
  Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas, Centre Cultural, Fundacion Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona
  Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• 1993 - Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris
  Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  House, comissionado por Artangel Trust and Beck’s, Londres
• 1994 - Rachel Whiteread: Zeichnungen, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
  Rachel Whiteread: Skulpturen/Esculturas, Kunsthalle, Basel;ICA Philadelphia; ICA Boston
  Rachel Whiteread: Desenhos, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Nova Iorque
• 1995 - Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas, British School, Roma
  Rachel Whiteread: Untitled (Floor), Karsten Schubert Ltd, Londres
• 1996 - Rachel Whiteread: Demolished, Karsten Schubert Ltd, Londres (em colaboração com Charles Booth-Clibborn & Paragon Press)
  Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Nova Iorque
  Rachel Whiteread: Esculturas 1988-96, Prix Eliette von Karajan, Max Gandolf Bibliothek, Salzburg, and Herbert von Karajan Centrum, Viena
  Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
• 1997 - Rachel Whiteread, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madri
  Rachel Whiteread, British Pavilion, XLVII Bienal de Veneza
• 1998 - Water Tower, Public Art Fund, Nova Iorque
  Rachel Whiteread, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Londres
• 1999 - Rachel Whiteread, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Nova Iorque
• 2000 - Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Viena
• 2001 - Monument, Fourth Plinth Project, Trafalgar Square, Londres
  Rachel Whiteread, Serpentine Gallery, London;Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edimburgo

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998

• Wounds, Moderna Museet, Estocolmo
• Displacements: Miroslaw Balka, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Toward Sculpture, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
• Real/Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Fukuoka Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art;Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
• Claustrophobia, Ikon gallery, Birmingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Dundee Contemporary Art Centre, Dundee; Cartwright Hall, Bradford
• Milestones in British Sculpture, Skulptur in Schlosspark Ambras, Áustria
• Inaugural Exhibition, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Nova Iorque
• Fifty Years of British Sculpture, NatWest Group Art Collection, Londres
• Family, Nvisible Museum, Edimburgo
• Thinking Aloud, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, Londres
• An Exhibition for Children, 242 Inc., Nova Iorque

1999

• Le Musée à l’heure anglaise (Sculptures de la collection du British Council: 1965-1998), Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes
• House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, EUA
• Ten for the Century: a View of sculpture in Britain, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea

2000

• Sincerely Yours, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
• Le temps vite, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
• HausSchau – Das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburgo
• La forma del mondo / la fine del monde, Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milão
• Shadow of Reason, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bolonha

2001

• The Language of Things, Kettle’sYard, Cambridge
• Public Offerings, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
• Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenossiche Kunst, Leipzig