Rachel Whiteread is an English artist, born in 1963, who primarily produces sculptures in the form of casts, and who in 1993 became the first woman to win the Turner Prize. Among her most renowned works are House, a large concrete cast of the interior of an entire Victorian house, the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, and Untitled Monument, her resin sculpture made for the empty fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
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Among her most renowned works are House, a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house; the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, resembling the shelves of a library with the pages turned outwards; and Untitled Monument, her resin sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
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She began to exhibit in 1987
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Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
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Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts.
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