Rachel Harrison lives and works in New York. She is currently the subject of a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, titled Rachel Harrison Life Hack. Other recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2015); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2013); and S.M.A.K., Ghent (2013). Significant recent group exhibitions include Getty Villa, Los Angeles (2018); The Met Breuer, New York (2018); Le Consortium, Dijon (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2016); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2016); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2016); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); and mumok, Vienna (2015).

Major public collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others.