Rachel Maclean (b. 1987, Edinburgh) has spent the last decade showcasing her groundbreaking work in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Working across a variety of media, including video, digitalprint, sculpture, and VR, she makes complex and layered works that reference politics, fairy tales, pop culture, contemporary media, and more.She has shown her work widely, both in the UK and internationally, receiving critical acclaim in the spheres of film and visual art.

Her major exhibitions include solo shows at Tate Britain and National Gallery, London; Arsenal Contemporary, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, and Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany; KWM Art Center, Beijing; and HOME, Manchester. Maclean represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with her film commission Spite Your Face. Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions at Somerset House and the V&A, London; National Gallery of Prague; Science Gallery Singapore; Bangkok Art Biennale; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Mito ArtTower, Tokyo; and National Galleries of Scotland,among others. Maclean’s biggest commission to date, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, is on permanent display at Jupiter Artland, Scotland.