Rachel Whiteread

Born: 20 April 1963, Ilford, London, United Kingdom

Education: Cyprus College; Brighton Polytechnic; Slade School of Art, University College, London (1985-1987)

Rachel Whiteread is an English artist known for her work with sculpture, often large-scale casts working with an inversion of the physicality of the original object. Whiteread was, in 1993, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, one of the UK’s premier art world events. She was also one of the fêted Young British Artists who were part of the Royal Academy exhibition “Sensation” in 1997. Among her most famous works are the 1993 Artangel commission “House” in the UK, the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, and “Untitled Monument” an inverted negative-space sculpture for the fourth plinth in the UK”s Trafalgar Square.

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