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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2018>Rachel Whiteread

# Rachel Whiteread

September 16, 2018 – January 13, 2019East Building, Concourse Galleries

Rachel Whiteread, *Ghost*, 1990, plaster on steel frame, overall: 269 x 355.5 x 317.5 cm (105 7/8 x 139 15/16 x 125 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Glenstone Foundation 2004.121.1

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

 As the first comprehensive survey of the work of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), this exhibition brings together some 100 objects from the course of the artist’s 30 year career, including drawings, photographs, architecture-scaled sculptures, archival materials, documentary materials on public projects, and several new works on view for the first time. The exhibition also features the wide range of materials utilized by the artist from plaster to rubber, concrete, resin, and paper. Ranging in scale and effect from the monumental to the modest, Whiteread’s sculptures memorialize everyday objects, domestic interiors, and public spaces. Throughout her celebrated career, Whiteread has effectively recast the memories of these locations and objects to chart the seismic changes in how we live, from the late 20th century and into the 21st. Co-organized with Tate Britain, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with contributions by the exhibition’s curators, an interview with the artist, and additional scholarly essays.

The exhibition is curated by Molly Donovan, curator of art, 1975–present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Ann Gallagher, director of collections (British art), Tate Britain, London.

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Shallow Breath*, 1988, plaster and polystyrene, Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Ghost*, 1990, plaster on steel frame, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Glenstone Foundation. © Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, *Green Bed*, 1992, ink, correction fluid, and watercolor, Tate: Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and The Michael Harry Sacher Charitable Trust 2011. © Rachel Whiteread. Image © Tate, 2018. Photo: Lucy Dawkins

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Study for*House*,**1992, correction fluid and pencil on color photocopy (two parts), Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Table and Chair (Green)*, 1994, rubber and polystyrene, Collection of Gail and Tony Ganz. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Untitled (Pink Torso)*, 1995, dental plaster, Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Untitled (Twenty-Five Spaces)*, 1995, resin (twenty-five units), Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Untitled (Yellow Bath)*, 1996, rubber and polystyrene, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, The Henry L. Hillman Fund, 1996. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Untitled (Domestic)*, 2002, cast plaster on armatures, Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Owned jointly by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; George B. and Jenny R. Matthews Fund and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Henry L. Hillman Fund, 2006. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *CONTENTS*, 2005, plaster (fourteen units), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Purchase, by exchange, through gifts of Harriet Lane Levy, Lily Lawlor, Albert M. Bender, Maurine Church Coburn, Mrs. Winifred Yelland Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Engelhart, Mrs. Charles de Young Elkus, R. E. Lewis, Miss Bess Replogle, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Kolb, Andre Kahn-Wolf, Mrs. Walter Camp, the Carnegie Corporation, and anonymous donors. © Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *LINE UP*, 2007–2008, plaster, pigment, resin, wood, and metal (eighteen units, one shelf),  Private collection, New York. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Ghost, Ghost II*, 2009, polyurethane (fourteen parts), Agnes Gund Collection. © Rachel Whiteread 2018. Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys)

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *circa 1665 (I)*, 2012, resin, Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *LOOK, LOOK, LOOK*, 2012, resin (three panels), Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Untitled (Violet)*, 2012, silver leaf, cardboard, celluloid, and pencil on paper, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, *Due Porte*, 2016, resin (two panels), Galleria Lorcan O’Neill. © Rachel Whiteread 2018

**Organization:** The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Tate Britain.

**Sponsors:** The exhibition is made possible by Dr. Mihael and Mrs. Mahy Polymeropoulos.It is also supported by Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman and The FLAG Art Foundation.Additional funding is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art.

**Passes:** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Attendance:** 50,396

**Catalog:**Rachel Whiteread. By Ann Gallagher and Molly Donovan. Millbank, London: Tate Publishing, 2017.

**Other venues:** Tate Britain, London, September 12, 2017–January 21, 201821er Haus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, March 8–July 29, 2018Saint Louis Art Museum, March 17–June 9, 2019

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SlideshowRachel Whiteread making *Ghost*

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*In the Library: Rachel Whiteread’s “Ghost”*September 17, 2018 – January 11, 2019East Building, Ground Floor, Study Center

Public SymposiaRachel WhitereadOctober 26 at 10:30East Building AuditoriumFilm SeriesLifting Traces: Memories of LondonOctober 27 – November 11East Building AuditoriumEducationTeacher WorkshopsVarious dates

                  - Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 4: Remarks and Discussion 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    April 9, 2019, (17:27 minutes)                                
                  - Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 3: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Cristina Iglesias 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    April 9, 2019, (43:30 minutes)                                
                  - Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 1—Rachel Whiteread: Weathering, Patina, Time
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    April 9, 2019, (44:59 minutes)                                
                  - Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 2: Three Halcyon Arts Lab Fellows Respond
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    April 9, 2019, (45:13 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Rachel Whiteread
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 26, 2018, (20:43 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Rachel Whiteread
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    September 25, 2018, (41:46 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Rachel Whiteread
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 18, 2018, (42:53 minutes)                                
                  - Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Rachel Whiteread 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    July 20, 2010, (72:20 minutes)                                
                  - Rachel Whiteread: "Ghost"
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    August 4, 2009, (8:10 minutes)                                

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