Born 1987, Edinburgh
Lives and works in Glasgow.
Education
2005–09 BA Honours Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
2008 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
Solo exhibitions
2017
Spite Your Face, Scotland + Venice, Solo exhibition representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale
2016/17
Wot u :-) about?, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
2016
Wot u :-) about?, HOME, Manchester, England
We Want Data!, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2015
Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun!, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The cold never bothered me anyway!, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, England
Let it go!, Inverness Art Gallery, Scotland
2014
Please, Sir…, Rowing, London, England
The Weepers, Comar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Happy and Glorious, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary at in Scotland
Loop Video Art Fair, presented by Rowing, Barcelona, Spain
Invites, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
I HEART SCOTLAND, The Travelling Gallery, Various locations around Scotland
2013
Quick Child, Run!, Trade Gallery, Nottingham, England
I HEART SCOTLAND, The Edinburgh Printmakers as part of The Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland
Over The Rainbow, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012
Lolcats, Solo show at Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland
The Lion and The Unicorn, Current Projects, Brisbane, Australia
Selected group exhibitions and screenings
2017
Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
A Goth Life: Datta Editions at Art Cologne, Germany
A Nonexistant Place: JUT Art Museum, Taiwan
TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong
2016
Feed Me at Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival
Frieze Film Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London
The Miracle Marathon Weekend at Serpentine Galleries, London
Jarman Awards: Touring programme, Various UK locations
2015
British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, England
The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, England
Just Frustration, SixtyEight, Copenhagen
Daata Editions, Online presentation
2014
Heathers, curated by Alex Ross at Rowing, London, England
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 Over (Drive+Flow), Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France
A Post-Gender World, Wysing Art Centre, Bourne, England
My Fiction Is Real, University of Essex, Colchester, England
Tonight you can call me Trish, Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Utopian Kind of Girl, The Nursery, London, England
Focus on Film, Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013
As real as walking down the street and going to the grocery store, Rowing, London, England
Airy-Fairy, Lairy and Scary, The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, in association Summerhall, Philadelphia, USA
Costume: Written Clothing, Group show at Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Neither Spit nor Diamonds, Flatpack Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
New Ideas for the City, St Petersburg Museum of Urban Sculpture, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Dark Room, Passmore Edwards School of Science and Art building in Helston, Cornwall, England
2012
Pleasure Palaces, Music video for Errors, Glasgow, Scotland
2011
Video screening, Gasworks, London, England
Polygon, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany
Microstoria, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sisyphus Happy, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, England
2010
UK Young Artists, The Ark Shop, Derby, England
The International Bongo Bongo Brigade, Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
They Had Four Years, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland
Hatchings, Patriothall Gallery in association with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Selected
Screenings and film festivals
2015
Germs and Over The Rainbow, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Transactions of Desire, Whitechapel, London and HOME, Manchester
Germs, Artists Film International, Whitechapel, London
Over The Rainbow, Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, England
Passing Glitches, Peckham Plex Cinema, London
Moving Pictures, Touring programme curated by British Arts Council and Film London, Various international venues
Jeune Prédation, Jeune Création, Paris, France
The Numbers Station, Belfast School of Art, Northern Ireland
2014
Screening of Lolcats at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
A Whole New World premiere, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Screening of Over The Rainbow as part of WeberWoche, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Screening curated by Northern Film and Media at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
Screening of Over The Rainbow, Inland Art Festival, Redruth, England
Screening of The Lion and The Unicorn at Indie Cork: A Festival of Independent Film and Music, Cork, Ireland
Screening of A Whole New World and The Lion and The Unicorn at Berwick Film Festival, Berwick upon Tweed, England
Screening of Over The Rainbow at Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2013
Screening of Lolcats at Animate Experiment, De La Warr Pavilion, Brighton
Space Time: Convention T, presented by Rowing Wysing Art Centre, England 2013 Art Cinema, Film screening, MIMA, Middlesbrough, England
Entre Chien et Loup, Group video screening and performance event as part of Glasgow Film Festival, Grand Central Hotel Ballroom, Glasgow Selected
Residencies 2016 Artpace, San Antonio, USA
Residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England
2012
Three Points of Contact Residency, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2011
Creative Scotland 6 month Film and New Media residency at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
2010
Going Bananas!, The Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Selected press
2017 Aesthetica Magazine – Viva Arte: 10 to see, Online Feature
Art Review, The Venice Questionnaire with Rachel Maclean, Online Feature
Izabella Scott, White Review, Interview with Rachel Maclean, Published
February 2017
2016 Moira Jeffery, The Scotsman, Review of Its What’s Inside that Counts,
01/11/2017HOME Manchester
Patrick Langley, Frieze, In Focus, 2/2016
2015 Jonathan P Watts, Art Monthly, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8,
Leeds, 10/2015
Laura Cumming, The Observer, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8,
Leeds, 10/2015
Hannah Duguid, The Independent, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show
8, Leeds, 10/2015
Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8,
Leeds, 10/2015
Richard Cork, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art
Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015
Amelia Crouch, A-N, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds,
10/2015 2015 Alice Butler, Frieze, Review of “Please, Sir…” at Rowing Projects,
London, 03/2015
Valentina Bin, Art Review, Review of Please, Sir at Rowing Projects,
London, 12/01/2015
2014 Kate Neave, Sleek Magazine, What’s Your Damage? “Heathers” revamped at
Rowing, Review of Heathers at Rowing, London, 07/10/2014
stuVVz Magazine, Anatomy of Anxieties, Review of show at Edouard
Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, 23/09/2014
Paul Robertson, Rooms Magazine, Interview, 10/2014 2014 Ivan Knapp,
Line Magazine, Who The Fuck Are You?, Feature, 09/2014
Neil Cooper, The List, Superb darkly comic retelling of Celtic Bean Nighe
myth from Glasgow filmmaker, Review of The Weepers An Tober, Tobermory,
Isle of Mull, 24/09/2014
Chris Sharratt, A-N Magazine, SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE AND ARTISTS:
“IT’S NOT ABOUT NATIONALISM AT ALL”, Feature, 25/08/2014
Oskar Oprey, Scamp Magazine, The Prime of Miss Rachel Maclean, Feature,
Summer 2014
You Are Cordially Invited, The Audacious Issue, Feature, 2014 2014 Alicia
Rodriguez, Garageland magazine, Review of Space-Time: The Future at Wysing
Arts Centre, 08/09/2014
Nick Warner, Art Monthly, , Review of Space-Time: The Future at Wysing
Arts Centre, 10/2014 2014 BBC2 Scotland and BBC4 Broadcast, Scotland’s Art
Revolution: The Maverick Generation: Kirsty Wark meets Rachel Maclean,
Television Interview, 15/07/2014
Art in Scotland from Arts News, Video Preview of Happy and Glorious CCA,
Glasgow, 06/2014
Lorna Irvine, Middle Magazine Online, Review of Happy and Glorious, CCA,
Glasgow, 06/2014 2014 PAIGE K. BRADLEY, Art Forum, July
Picks, Review of Happy and Glorious CCA, 07/2014 2014 Visual Artists
Ireland, Spark & Grit. Rgksksrg discuss the DCC, Review of Tonight you can call
me Trish, LAB Gallery, Dublin, 08/06/2014
Moira Jeffery, The Scotsman, Review of Happy and Glorious, CCA, Glasgow,
07/06/2014
Barry Didcock, The Sunday Herald, True colours, Feature and cover,
11/05/2014
Janice Forsyth, BBC Culture Café, Interview about Alchemy Film Festival,
03/04/2014
Rachel Maclean
Born 1987, Edinburgh Lives and works in Glasgow. Education 2005–09 BA Honours Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland 2008 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA Solo exhibitions 2017 Spite Your Face, Scotland + Venice, Solo exhibition representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2016/17 Wot u :-) about?, Art Now, Tate Britain, London 2016 Wot u :-) about?, HOME, Manchester, England We Want Data!, Artpace, San Antonio, USA 2015 Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun!, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg The cold never bothered me anyway!, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, England Let it go!, Inverness Art Gallery, Scotland 2014 Please, Sir…, Rowing, London, England The Weepers, Comar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland Happy and Glorious, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary at in Scotland Loop Video Art Fair, presented by Rowing, Barcelona, Spain Invites, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England I HEART SCOTLAND, The Travelling Gallery, Various locations around Scotland 2013 Quick Child, Run!, Trade Gallery, Nottingham, England I HEART SCOTLAND, The Edinburgh Printmakers as part of The Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland Over The Rainbow, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2012 Lolcats, Solo show at Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland The Lion and The Unicorn, Current Projects, Brisbane, Australia Selected group exhibitions and screenings 2017 Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany A Goth Life: Datta Editions at Art Cologne, Germany A Nonexistant Place: JUT Art Museum, Taiwan TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong 2016 Feed Me at Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival Frieze Film Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London The Miracle Marathon Weekend at Serpentine Galleries, London Jarman Awards: Touring programme, Various UK locations 2015 British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, England The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, England Just Frustration, SixtyEight, Copenhagen Daata Editions, Online presentation 2014 Heathers, curated by Alex Ross at Rowing, London, England Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 Over (Drive+Flow), Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France A Post-Gender World, Wysing Art Centre, Bourne, England My Fiction Is Real, University of Essex, Colchester, England Tonight you can call me Trish, Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Utopian Kind of Girl, The Nursery, London, England Focus on Film, Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland 2013 As real as walking down the street and going to the grocery store, Rowing, London, England Airy-Fairy, Lairy and Scary, The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, in association Summerhall, Philadelphia, USA Costume: Written Clothing, Group show at Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland Neither Spit nor Diamonds, Flatpack Gallery, Dublin, Ireland New Ideas for the City, St Petersburg Museum of Urban Sculpture, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Dark Room, Passmore Edwards School of Science and Art building in Helston, Cornwall, England 2012 Pleasure Palaces, Music video for Errors, Glasgow, Scotland 2011 Video screening, Gasworks, London, England Polygon, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany Microstoria, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Sisyphus Happy, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, England 2010 UK Young Artists, The Ark Shop, Derby, England The International Bongo Bongo Brigade, Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic They Had Four Years, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland Hatchings, Patriothall Gallery in association with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Selected Screenings and film festivals 2015 Germs and Over The Rainbow, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA Transactions of Desire, Whitechapel, London and HOME, Manchester Germs, Artists Film International, Whitechapel, London Over The Rainbow, Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, England Passing Glitches, Peckham Plex Cinema, London Moving Pictures, Touring programme curated by British Arts Council and Film London, Various international venues Jeune Prédation, Jeune Création, Paris, France The Numbers Station, Belfast School of Art, Northern Ireland 2014 Screening of Lolcats at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands A Whole New World premiere, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland Screening of Over The Rainbow as part of WeberWoche, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands Screening curated by Northern Film and Media at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England Screening of Over The Rainbow, Inland Art Festival, Redruth, England Screening of The Lion and The Unicorn at Indie Cork: A Festival of Independent Film and Music, Cork, Ireland Screening of A Whole New World and The Lion and The Unicorn at Berwick Film Festival, Berwick upon Tweed, England Screening of Over The Rainbow at Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland 2013 Screening of Lolcats at Animate Experiment, De La Warr Pavilion, Brighton Space Time: Convention T, presented by Rowing Wysing Art Centre, England 2013 Art Cinema, Film screening, MIMA, Middlesbrough, England Entre Chien et Loup, Group video screening and performance event as part of Glasgow Film Festival, Grand Central Hotel Ballroom, Glasgow Selected Residencies 2016 Artpace, San Antonio, USA Residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England 2012 Three Points of Contact Residency, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2011 Creative Scotland 6 month Film and New Media residency at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 2010 Going Bananas!, The Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Selected press 2017 Aesthetica Magazine – Viva Arte: 10 to see, Online Feature Art Review, The Venice Questionnaire with Rachel Maclean, Online Feature Izabella Scott, White Review, Interview with Rachel Maclean, Published February 2017 2016 Moira Jeffery, The Scotsman, Review of Its What’s Inside that Counts, 01/11/2017HOME Manchester Patrick Langley, Frieze, In Focus, 2/2016 2015 Jonathan P Watts, Art Monthly, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 Laura Cumming, The Observer, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 Hannah Duguid, The Independent, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 Richard Cork, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 Amelia Crouch, A-N, Review of “Feed Me” at British Art Show 8, Leeds, 10/2015 2015 Alice Butler, Frieze, Review of “Please, Sir…” at Rowing Projects, London, 03/2015 Valentina Bin, Art Review, Review of Please, Sir at Rowing Projects, London, 12/01/2015 2014 Kate Neave, Sleek Magazine, What’s Your Damage? “Heathers” revamped at Rowing, Review of Heathers at Rowing, London, 07/10/2014 stuVVz Magazine, Anatomy of Anxieties, Review of show at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, 23/09/2014 Paul Robertson, Rooms Magazine, Interview, 10/2014 2014 Ivan Knapp, Line Magazine, Who The Fuck Are You?, Feature, 09/2014 Neil Cooper, The List, Superb darkly comic retelling of Celtic Bean Nighe myth from Glasgow filmmaker, Review of The Weepers An Tober, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, 24/09/2014 Chris Sharratt, A-N Magazine, SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE AND ARTISTS: “IT’S NOT ABOUT NATIONALISM AT ALL”, Feature, 25/08/2014 Oskar Oprey, Scamp Magazine, The Prime of Miss Rachel Maclean, Feature, Summer 2014 You Are Cordially Invited, The Audacious Issue, Feature, 2014 2014 Alicia Rodriguez, Garageland magazine, Review of Space-Time: The Future at Wysing Arts Centre, 08/09/2014 Nick Warner, Art Monthly, , Review of Space-Time: The Future at Wysing Arts Centre, 10/2014 2014 BBC2 Scotland and BBC4 Broadcast, Scotland’s Art Revolution: The Maverick Generation: Kirsty Wark meets Rachel Maclean, Television Interview, 15/07/2014 Art in Scotland from Arts News, Video Preview of Happy and Glorious CCA, Glasgow, 06/2014 Lorna Irvine, Middle Magazine Online, Review of Happy and Glorious, CCA, Glasgow, 06/2014 2014 PAIGE K. BRADLEY, Art Forum, July Picks, Review of Happy and Glorious CCA, 07/2014 2014 Visual Artists Ireland, Spark & Grit. Rgksksrg discuss the DCC, Review of Tonight you can call me Trish, LAB Gallery, Dublin, 08/06/2014 Moira Jeffery, The Scotsman, Review of Happy and Glorious, CCA, Glasgow, 07/06/2014 Barry Didcock, The Sunday Herald, True colours, Feature and cover, 11/05/2014 Janice Forsyth, BBC Culture Café, Interview about Alchemy Film Festival, 03/04/2014