2009
BA Honours Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK

2008
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA

2021

That's not Mi!, Josh Lilley, London

i’m 2 happy!, Solo exhibition at Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna

upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, permanent outdoor commission and solo exhibition at Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland

2020

Rachel Maclean, Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

2019

Spite Your Face, Solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Native Animals, Solo exhibition at Arsenal Contemporary NYC, USA

Tales of Disunion, Solo exhibition at Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

Make Me Up, Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2018

Please, Sir…, Solo exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand

The Lion and The Unicorn, The National Gallery, London, England

Rachel Maclean: Solo Exhibition, KWM Arts Centre, Beijing, China

Spite Your Face, Rachel Maclean, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, Wales

Rachel Maclean: Solo Exhibition, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England

Just B Yourself, Rachel Maclean, Dublin City Art Gallery, Dublin

New Worlds, State of Concept, Athens, Greece

Rachel Maclean: Solo Exhibition. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Rachel Maclean: Solo Exhibition. Château de Servières, Marseilles, France

Rachel Maclean: Solo Exhibition, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2017

Spite Your Face, Scotland + Venice, Representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale

Wot u :-) about? Art Now, Tate Britain, London, England

2016

Wot u :-) about? HOME, Manchester, England

We Want Data! Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA

2015

Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun! Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The cold never bothered me anyway! 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

Let it go! Inverness Art Gallery, Scotland

2014

Please, Sir…, Rowing, London, England

The Weepers, Comar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland

Happy and Glorious, Solo exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary in Scotland

Rachel Maclean; Invites, Solo exhibition, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England

I HEART SCOTLAND, Solo exhibition, The Travelling Gallery, Various locations around Scotland

2013

Quick Child, Run!, Solo exhibition, Trade Gallery, Nottingham, England

I HEART SCOTLAND, Solo exhibition, The Edinburgh Printmakers as part of The Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland

Over The Rainbow, Solo exhibition, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2012

Lolcats, Solo exhibition, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland

The Lion and The Unicorn, Solo exhibition, Current Projects, Brisbane, Australia

Upcoming

It’s What’s Inside That Counts, HOOKED V2, Science Gallery, Atlanta, USA

Feed Me, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic

2021

Make Me Up & It’s What’s Inside That Counts, Fiction? Better than Reality!, Villa Merkel,

Esslingen, Germany

Native Animals, Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London

The Lion and The Unicorn, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser Exhibition,

V&A Museum, London

Feed Me, Candy Coated, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Madam in Eden I’m Adam' and 'madA m’I nedE ni madaM', Time Takes a Cigarette,

Josh Lilley Gallery, London

Over The Rainbow, No Place Like Home, MOMA Foma, Hobart, Tasmania

2020/21

Dr Cute, #cute. Islands of Happiness at NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany

It’s What’s Inside That Counts, BAB 2020, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok

2019

Feed Me, You., from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection. At Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, France

Mending a Face, Cursed Images, curated by Ed Fornieles at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria

Germs and Mending a Face, Fuse-Video Art Exhibition, Double Square Gallery 双方藝廊,Taipei, Taiwan

I’m Terribly Sorry, XR Festival with the British Council, Madrid

I’m Terribly Sorry, ISO Design, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow

It's What's Inside That Counts & We Want Data!, We are the people. Who are you?, Edel Assanti, London

2018

Eyes 2 Me, Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece

We Want Data!, The Public Body.03, Artpace, Sydney Australia

Feed Me, Hooked, The Science Gallery, Kings College, London, England

I HEART SCOTLAND (prints), Travelling Gallery at 40: Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

It's What's Inside That Counts, I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

It's What's Inside That Counts, Hello World - For The Post-Human Age, Mito Art Tower,

Tokyo, Japan

Feed Me, Diesel Worm, Roskilde Music Festival, Denmark

Feed Me, In My Shoes,: Art & The Self Since The 1990s. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition

2017/18

The Lion and The Unicorn, The Art of Dissonance, The Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea

2017

British Film and Video, Studio 55, Seoul, South Korea

ARS17, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland

A Goth Life: Daata Editions, Art Cologne, Germany

It's What's Inside That Counts, A Non-Existent Place, JUT Art Museum, Taiwan

It’s What’s Inside That Counts, WE ARE THE REMIX, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden

Feed Me, I Want! I Want! Art and Technology, Arts Council Collection, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

The Lion and The Unicorn, Video Encounters: inside the story, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

It’s What’s Inside That Counts, TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread, MILL 6, Hong Kong, China

2016

Please Sir…, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India

Frieze Film Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, England

Again and Again and Again, The Miracle Marathon Weekend, Serpentine Galleries, London, England

2016/17

Feed Me, British Art Show 8, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England

Feed Me, British Art Show 8, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, England

Feed Me, British Art Show 8, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015/16

Feed Me, British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, England

2015

The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, England

Just Frustration, SixtyEight, Copenhagen, Denmark

Daata Editions, Online exhibition

2014

Heathers, curated by Alex Ross, Rowing, London, England

Loop Video Art Fair, presented by Rowing, Barcelona, Spain

Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China

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

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 Helston, Cornwall

2011

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, Czechia

They Had Four Years, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland

Hatchings, Patriothall Gallery in association with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland