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

2008
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA

2024
Mama Mimi Duck, Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, Germany

2023
If it looks like a duck…, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

2022
Don’t buy Mi, temporary installation, Perth High Street, Perth, Scotland

2021
That's not Mi!, Josh Lilley, London, England
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, Tel Aviv, Israel
Native Animals, Solo exhibition at Arsenal Contemporary NYC, New York, USA
Tales of Disunion, Solo exhibition at Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Make Me Up, Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2018
Please, Sir…, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, 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, Australia
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, Venice, Italy
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 City, Luxembourg
The cold never bothered me anyway! 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, England
Let it go! Inverness Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland

2014
Please, Sir…, Rowing, London, England
The Weepers, Comar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Happy and Glorious, Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary in Scotland, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Rachel Maclean; Invites, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
I HEART SCOTLAND, The Travelling Gallery, various locations in Scotland

2013
Quick Child, Run!, Trade Gallery, Nottingham, England
I HEART SCOTLAND, The Edinburgh Printmakers, The Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Over The Rainbow, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2012
Lolcats, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland
The Lion and The Unicorn, Current Projects, Brisbane, Australia

2024
Friends in Love and War, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Cute, Somerset House, London, England

2023
Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who's the Fairest of Them All?, Garage, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2022
upside mimi (down mimi), NAFI, Nanjing, China
The Queen, Mary Queen of Scots, The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
I’m Terribly Sorry, Slip Stream Slip, SODA, Manchester, England
I’m Terribly Sorry, Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, England
The Queen, Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge, England
Pic, Me, Myself and I: Artists and Self-portraiture, RWA, Bristol, England
The Queen, Scottish Women Artists, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, England
It’s What’s Inside That Counts, HOOKED V2, Science Gallery, Atlanta, USA
It’s What’s Inside That Counts & We Want Data!, Science Gallery, Singapore

2021
Feed Me, ‘Post-digital Intimacy', National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
Make Me Up & It’s What’s Inside That Counts, Fiction? Better than Reality!, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London, England
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, V&A Museum, London, England
Feed Me, Candy Coated, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, England
Over The Rainbow, No Place Like Home, MOMA Foma, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2020
#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., Lafayette Anticipations Collection, 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, Spain
I’m Terribly Sorry, ISO Design, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scoutland
We are the people. Who are you?, Edel Assanti, London, England

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
I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Hello World - For The Post-Human Age, Mito Art Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Diesel Worm, Roskilde Music Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
In My Shoes: Art & The Self Since The 1990s. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition

2017
The Art of Dissonance, The Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
British Film and Video, Studio 55, Seoul, South Korea
ARS17, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland
A Goth Life: Daata Editions, Art Cologne, Germany
A Non-Existent Place, JUT Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
WE ARE THE REMIX, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
Art and Technology, Arts Council Collection, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Video Encounters: inside the story, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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
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
Feed Me, British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
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, 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, England

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

Selected Film Festivals

2024
DUCK, International Competition, Minikino Film Week, Bali, Indonesia
DUCK, Official Selection,Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas
DUCK, International Competition, Prix Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica, Linz, Switzerland
DUCK, International Competition, Kurzfilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany
DUCK, UK Competition, London Short Film Festival, London, England
DUCK, Artist Focus Programme, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2022
upside mimiᴉɯᴉɯuʍop, Cavalcade of perversions, Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal, Montreal, Canada
upside mimiᴉɯᴉɯuʍop, International Competition Mecal Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
upside mimiᴉɯᴉɯuʍop, International Competition Tampere Film Festival, Finland

2021
upside mimiᴉɯᴉɯuʍop, What are you looking at?, BFI London Film Festival, London, England
Dr Cute, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2020
Make Me Up, Theatertreffen Berliner Festpiele, Berlin, Germany
Make Me Up, Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, Canada