BIOGRAPHY
1970 Born in Rochester, New York.
1987 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
1991 B.A., Studio Art and Contemporary Art History, Bennington College, Vermont.
1996 M.F.A., Studio Art, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Lives and works in Muir Beach, California.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. green holotrope.
(9 September – 28 October)
Large Glass, London. small mirror
(16 March – 5 May)
2022 Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. amaro in ebraico (Hebrew for bitter)
(22 September – 12 November)
Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City. Mmontessori
(22 September – 27 October)
Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Chateau de Rochechouart, France.
du vent au vent (25 February – 18 September)
The Wattis Institute, San Francisco. Mirra Helen: Leaves 1992 2022
(11 January – 10 July)
2021 Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany. Gletscherbachfloß (Glacial-river-raft)
(30 January – 24 April). Exhibition travelled: Meyer Riegger, Berlin (24 April – 22 May)
2020 Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico. Nine Years of Slope-Walking
(10 December 2020 – 26 April 2021)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. ĉielarka aktivec
(12 September – 14 November)
Large Glass, London. la malplena ĉambro estas bela
(11 September – 14 November)
Cample Line, Thornhill, UK. Acts for placing woolen and linen
(13 August – 19 September)
2019 Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. ein freundlicher Nein / a friendly No
(3–17 May)
2018 NHMX, Nordenhake, Mexico City. Nueve años caminando en las laderas
(Nine years of slope-walking) (17 November – 15 January 2019)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Bones are spaces
(8 November – 22 December)
Large Glass, London. A Coin in Nine Hands – Part 7. Helen Mirra, Standard Incomparable
(7 June – 7 July)
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm. *
(24 May – 21 June)
2017 Large Glass, London. A Coin in Nine Hands – Part 3
(5 December 2017 – 13 January 2018)
Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam. Voluntary Weathering
(9 September – 14 October)
Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, Italy. gehen, weben / camminare, tessere
(21 July – 1 October). Catalogue.
Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam. Variable Weather
(16 June – 29 July)
2016 Highline, New York. Helen Mirra, Half-smiler
(3–14 October)
2015 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm. Helen Mirra
(20 August – 26 September)
2014 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Waulked
(11 September – 25 October)
Culturgest, Lisbon. Edge Habit
(7 June – 14 September)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hourly Directional
(24 April – 6 June)
2013 Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Field, Western Japan
(26 September – 16 November)
2012 Taka Ishii, Tokyo. Hourly directional field notation, Bretagne
(10 November – 8 December)
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. gehend (Field Recordings 1 – 3)
(23 February – 6 May)
2011 Peter Freeman Inc., New York. Field Notation
(6 October – 12 November)
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. gehend (Field Recordings 1 – 3)
(20 September – 20 November). Exhibition travelled: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
(27 November 2011 – 29 January 2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (23 February – 29 April 2012)
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm. Field Index 3
(26 May – 26 June)
2009 Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Conscience de pierre
(14 November 2009 – 22 January 2010)
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin. 33 Bergwanderwege
(29 April – 6 June)
Taka Ishii, Kyoto. Case Study: Swiss Bird Houses
(10 January – 14 February)
2008 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm. Quarry
(17 February – 20 March)
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont. Helen Mirra
2007 Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Waldau
(9 March – 14 April)
Alte Fabrik (Gebert Stiftung Fur Kultur), Rapperswil, Switzerland. Grotesk Gegend
2006 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Break Camp
(9 November 2006 – 20 January 2007)
University of Chicago, Illinois. Instance the Determination
(27 April 2006 – June 2009)
DAAD Galerie, Berlin. Cloud, the, 3
(25 March – 6 May). Catalogue.
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Käuzchensteig
(25 February – 7 April)
2005 PIAC (Piattaforma internazionale arte contemporanea), Ragusa, Italy. Helen Mirra
(24 September – 30 November)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. Laws of clash, 247
(26 May – July)
2004 Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Concentrations 45: Helen Mirra: Sudden and creeping violence
(7 October 2004 – 2 January 2005)
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Miscellaneous papers
(21 May – 1 July)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Helen Mirra: Hewn third
(4 March – 17 April)
2003 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California. Matrix 209: 65 Instants
(23 November 2003 – 25 January 2004)
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Helen Mirra
(21 March – 19 April)
2002 DYG Projects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. Arrow
(22 November 2002 – January 2003)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Declining Interval Lands
(21 September – 8 December)
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan. Nicola Sacco
2001 Meyer Riegger Galerie, Art 32 Basel, Switzerland. Miller's Views, Statements
(13–18 June)
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois. Sky-Wreck
(6 May – 24 June). Catalogue.
2000 Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Beforsten
(23 September – 4 November)
Gasser & Grunert, New York. Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties
1999 Chicago Project Room, Illinois.
1997 Rx (project space), Chicago.
Chicago Project Room, Illinois.
1996 Monk Parakeet, Chicago. Stowaway
Gallery 400, Chicago. Here but not here
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. New Collection Display
(4 April 2025 – 4 January 2026)
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(16–26 October)
Large Glass, London. After Mallarmé
(12 April – 19 July)
MRAC Occitanie, Serignan, France. Fortuna
(6 April – 22 September)
2023 Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples. Tanz Auf Dem Vulkan: Storie Dalla Collezione Morra Greco li
(12 October – 16 December)
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Illinois. Smart to the Core: Poetry is Everything
(21 September 2023 – 4 February 2024)
MASSIMODECARLO, London. Thread Routes
(5 July – 26 August)
Canada Gallery, New York. Is and Isn’t: a context for Denzil Hurley
(1 June – 22 July)
Swiss Institute, New York. Spora
(10 May 2023 – 10 May 2025)
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Evidence of Circumstance,
curated by Josephine Halvorson (17 March – 22 April)
2022 Frac Grand Large, Hauts-de-France. Horizon(s)
(17 August 2022 – 23 April 2023)
SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany. Walk!
(18 February – 22 May)
2021 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Back Grounds: Impressions Photographiques IV,
in collaboration with Olivier Renaud-Clément (19 June – 30 July)
Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam. Paragraph
(17 April – 29 May)
/, San Francisco. Arboreal
(26 March – 26 June)
Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City. Almond Shaped Eyes for Circles and Dots •
Circles for Eyes and Almond Shaped Dots • Dots and Almonds for Circles in Eyes
(17 March – 16 April)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. RHE: Jan Dibbets, Helen Mirra, Fiona Tan, Richard Wentworth,
in collaboration with Galleries Curate (8–30 January)
2020 Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany. Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe.
(19 September 2020 – 28 February 2021)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: a changing installation
(15 September – 19 December)
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. Sedimentations: Brushing History Against the Grain,
curated by Noit Banai (5 September – 17 October)
The National Exemplar, Iowa City. HELEN MIRRA / JOHN DILG,
curated by Katie Rashid (1 August – 10 September)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. ORTHODOX ABSTRACTION
(27 June – 29 August)
Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain. On the Ground
(15 May – 15 September)
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon. The Quiet Show
(6 February – 2 May)
2019 Maxwell Graham, New York. Concerning Superfluities: Shaker Material Culture and Affinities
(3 November – 22 December)
Marcelle Alix, Paris. Marcelle Alix ouverte
(30 October – 30 November)
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California. Helen Mirra & Sean Thackrey: No Horizon
(3 July – 25 August)
Meyer Riegger, Berlin. Come Together
(29 June – 3 August)
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived!
(25 June – 27 July)
Modern Art London, Vyner Street, UK. Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Helen Mirra, Hayley Tompkins
(7 March – 13 April)
Large Glass, London. In the Labyrinth
(8 February – 5 April)
Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany. A Day’s Work
(27 January – 13 April)
2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Common Threads, Weaving Stories Across Time
(4 October 2018 – 13 January 2019)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois. a body measured against the earth,
curated by Jared Quinton (21 August 2018 – 7 April 2019)
Large Glass, London. A Coin in Nine Hands – Part 8
(12 July – 14 September)
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, China. The Second Yinchuan Biennale:
Starting from the desert. Ecologies on the edge (10 June – 19 September)
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago.
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and other Recent Acquisitions (26 April – 5 August)
Doyers, New York. A Simple Fraction,
organized by Debra Singer (13 January – 18 March)
Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Matrix do Tempo Real,
curated by Jacopo Visconti (13 January –18 March)
2017 Large Glass, London. A Coin in Nine Hands – Part 3. Helen Mirra and Sol LeWitt (Maps)
(5 December 2017 – 13 January 2018)
Galería Nieves Fernandez, Madrid. 2057
(29 November 2017 – 18 February 2018)
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany. And Then There Were None
(18 November – 22 December)
Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Frieburg, Germany. For Eternity – Archival Strategies in Art
(8 October 2017 – 25 February 2018)
Mammoth Lakes, California. Forrest Island Project
(October)
SEPTEMBER Gallery, Kinderhook, New York. Incident Report
(2 September – 15 October)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto. Serralves Collection: 1960-1980
(8 May 2017 – 28 January 2018)
Fjord, Philadelphia. To chance, to wander
(13 April – 27 May)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Listen Here: The Art of Sound
(8 March – 5 September)
2016 Raffaella Cortese Galleria, Milan. Helen Mirra & Allyson Strafella: fieno fieno fieno
(21 September – 26 November)
Bennington College, Vermont. VBS (violet burning sunset)
(20 September – 16 October)
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland. I Went to the Woods: The artist as wanderer
(23 July – 6 November)
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California. Ellen Lesperance, Helen Mirra, Traversing
(5 June – 11 September). Catalogue.
Fondation d’entreprise Hermés, Brussels. Ballistic poetry
(23 April – 2 July)
Large Glass, London. SUCHNESS
(15 April – 24 June)
Marcelle Alix, Paris. Accueille-moi paysage
(4 February – 9 April)
Meyer Riegger, Berlin. Allyson Strafella, Helen Mirra
(16 January – 5 March)
2015 MAC Gas Natural Fenosa Museum, Coruña, Spain.
Monumental Narratives: Figures, Landscapes and Rituals (17 December 2015 – 1 May 2016)
La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Rennes, France. L’Épais Réel (Into The Real)
(11 December 2015 – 21 February 2016)
The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow –
Archives 1915-2015 (14 November – 20 December)
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France. tout le monde
(11 September – 6 December)
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Ordering Nature
(12 June – 31 July)
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany. Anne Callahan, Helen Mirra: five colors
(6 June – 18 July)
Bienal de La Habana, Cuba. "Half-smiler"
(21 May – 11 June)
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Walking Sculpture 1967-2015
(9 May – 13 September)
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. Second Chances
(20 March – 28 June)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now,
curated by Allegra Pesenti (7 February – 31 May). Exhibition travelled: The Menil Collection,
Houston (11 September 2015 – 3 January 2016)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Gathered Fates,
curated by Ignasi Aballí (17 January – 7 March)
2014 Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro. Falso movimento
(12 December 2014 – 17 January 2015)
Large Glass, London. Indeterminacy
(28 November 2014 – 27 February 2015)
Longhouse Projects, New York. Artadia’s 15th Anniversary
(13 September – 25 October)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. DRAWN
(28 June – 26 July)
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hourly directional: Helen Mirra and Ernst Karel (7 February – 6 April)
2014 Cuenca Bienal, Ecuador.
2013 Churner and Churner, New York. Dust Breeding
(27 June – 9 August)
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles. Tehachapi
(25 May – 29 June)
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. Sin Motivo Aparente
(9 May – 16 October)
Vistamare, Pescara, Italy. Oltremare
(24 March – 31 May)
Musée D’art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. L’Image Papillon (The Butterfly Image)
(23 March – 8 September)
PROJECTSD, Barcelona. Map, Record, Picture, Sculpture
(19 March – 26 April)
FRAC Ile de France, Le Plateau, Paris. Paint It Black
(14 March – 12 May)
Passatge Mercader 8, Barcelona.
Patricia Dauder, Helen Mirra, Guillaume Leblon and Christoph Weber (8 March – 19 April)
2012 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the Holocene
(18 October 2012 – 6 January 2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art
(12 October 2012 – 3 February 2013). Exhibition travelled:
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (21 June – 2 September 2013);
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing
(21 March – 21 September). Catalogue.
Ateliers de Rennes Biennial, France.
(15 September – 9 December)
30th Bienal de Sāo Paulo, Brazil.
(7 September – 9 December)
Golden Gallery, Chicago. WhiteWalls: Writings by Artists 1978-2008
(13 July – 5 August)
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark. Treffpunkt: Berlin
(11 May – 22 July)
Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam.
There was a country where they were all thieves (4 May – June 7)
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Unfinished Journeys
(16 March – May 20)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Umstülpung,
curated by Günter Umberg (28 January – 3 March)
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France. Formes Breves, Autres, 25
(27 January – 8 April)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture (21 January – 29 April)
2011 Meyer Riegger, Berlin. Process, Time
(11 November – 17 December)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. Arte Essenziale,
curated by Fedrico Ferrari (3 November 2011 – 1 January 2012)
Large Glass, London. Joseph Beuys: Coyote
(12 October – 23 December)
Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany. Belvedere: Why is Landscape Beautiful?
(9 September 2011 – 4 March 2012)
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland. Science & Fiction
(20 July – 6 November)
Firth Street Gallery, London. Look with all your eyes, look
(15 July – 30 September)
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World),
curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow and Peter Pakesch (11 June – 4 September)
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Essential Art,
curated by Federico Ferrari (11 April 2011 – 1 January 2012)
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin. Five Easy Pieces
(24 February – 2 April)
Diapason Gallery, New York. Swiss mountain transport systems: Ernst Karel and Helen Mirra
(8, 15, 22, & 29 January)
2010 daadgalerie, Berlin. Die Natur ruft!
(30 October – 4 December)
Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, France.
Habiter poétiquement le monde (The World as Poem), curated by François Piron
(25 September 2010 – 30 January 2011)
2009 Abtart, Stuttgart. (Z)ART,
curated by Jan Hoet (13 October 2009 – 31 January 2010)
MARTa, Herford, Germany. Pittoresk – Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild
(3 October 2009 – 31 January 2010)
About Change Collection, Berlin. Chapter Four: World Wraps
(19 September 2009– January 2010)
The Kunsthalle Mulhouse Contemporary Art Center, France.
Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent (17 September – 15 November)
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Livsformer/Life Forms
(16 September 2009 – 10 January 2010)
Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Reduced Visibility
(4 September – 15 November)
Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France. Fragile
(16 May – 16 August)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The Quick and the Dead,
curated by Peter Eleey (24 April – 27 September)
le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Le Travail de riviere
(4 February – 29 March)
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Dog Star Man
(31 January – 28 February)
Intershop Tower, Jena, Germany. How to Work Better: Das Büro im Atelier,
curated by Christiane Rekade (23 January – 28 February)
2008 KW Instititure for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Political/Minimal
(30 November 2008 – 25 January 2009)
Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany. Observing beast, time, evolution:
Kunst und Naturwissenschaft (7 September – 2 November)
Yvon Lambert, Paris. Ready-Made
(27 June – 6 September)
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Vertautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland (22 May – 12 October)
Museo ARCOS, Benevento, Italy. Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy
(20 March – 31 August)
2007 Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Drawing a Tiger
(28 September – 24 October)
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. No Context
(30 June – 21 July)
MARTa, Herford, Germany. Marta Schweigt. Garde le silence, le silence te Gardera
(7 June – 14 October)
Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Art and Language
(11 May – 23 June)
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.
Dump: Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved Field (5 March – 19 August)
Inova (Institute for Visual Art), Milwaukee. Place of the Transcommon
(2 February – 16 March)
2006 Galerie Lelong, New York. Spectrum
(9 December 2006 – 28 January 2007)
Mary Mary, Glasgow. Planting the Tele
(25 November 2006 – 13 January 2007)
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany. Into a Journey
(5 November – 9 December)
Sonambiente, festival für hören und sehen, Berlin.
(1 June – 16 July)
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Helen Mirra, Sharon Harper
2005 Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario. Variations on the Picturesque
(10 December 2005 – 19 March 2006)
Creative Time, the High Line, New York. The Plain of Heaven,
curated by Peter Eleey (14 October – 20 November)
White Columns, New York. Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta Clark’s “Fake Estates”
(9 September – 18 October)
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. Set
(20 August – 10 September)
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tropical Abstraction
(10 June – 21 August)
2004 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Material as Metaphor
(10 December 2004 – 15 January 2005)
Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany. Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute
(9 October 2004 – 9 January 2005)
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
(29 August – 2 October)
Galerie Kamm, Berlin. Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics
(10 July – 11 September)
2003 Sculpture Center, New York. Paper Sculpture
(7 September – 7 December)
50th Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Delays and Revolutions
(15 June – 2 November)
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Land, Land!
Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander and Katja Strunz (18 January – 9 March). Catalogue.
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. There’s no land but the land
(17 January – 28 February)
The Pond, Chicago. Subject Index
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver. Going A Journey
2002 Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida. Art Projects,
curated by James Rondeau (5–8 December)
Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany. Zusammenhänge herstellen
(29 June – 25 August)
Palo Alto Arts Center, California. Artist as Navigator
(27 June – 8 September)
KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia. Public Radio
(February)
Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna. Waiting for the Ice Age
(19 January – 9 March)
Michael Hall Galerie, Vienna. 48°N, Backdrop
Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois. Here and now
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Sound Canopy
CCAC Institute, San Francisco. Sudden Glory
2001 Block Museum, Chicago. Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Periphery of the Museum
(23 September – 10 December)
Tirana Biennial 1, Albania.
(15 September – 15 October)
ApexArt, New York. Making the Making
(5 January – 3 February)
The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Sky-wreck
(6 May – 24 June)
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Untitled 654321
Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois. Contextual
Refusalon, San Francisco. To your left is the South, to your right is the North depending
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Age of Influence
(23 September – 10 December)
Donald Young, Chicago. Sound, Video, Film
(5 May – 10 June)
Grand Central Arts, Santa Ana, California. Static
1999 Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen. You Smile and I Am Rubbing My Eyes
Exit Art/The First World, New York. The Stroke
Exit Art/The First World, New York. Faucet
1998 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Trance
(6 October 1998 – 10 January 1999)
Bricks and Kicks, Vienna. Scott Hug, Helen Mirra, CAR
London Electronic Arts, UK. Pandemonium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Video & Film
57 Hope, Brooklyn. No Budget
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Time Arts Chicago
(August)
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany. Some Kind of Heaven
(20 February – 27 April). Exhibition travelled: South London Gallery, UK (4 June – 13 July)
Art Forum Berlin, Germany. Art Club Berlin
1996 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Up Close and Personal
(31 December 1996 – 2 March 1997)
The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Persona
(10 March – 21 April). Exhibition travelled: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Gasser & Grunert, Cologne. Found Footage
University of California, San Diego. Super Super 8
San Francisco, California. Swell, Four Walls
1995 Anthology Film Archive, New York. Mix
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago. Youth Culture Killed My Dog
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2021–2022 Artist in Residence, Capp Street Project, San Francisco.
2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York.
2017 Tending Space Fellowship, Hemera Foundation, Boulder.
2017 Forest Island Project Fellowship, Mammoth Lakes, California.
2016 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy.
2015 MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Tending Space Fellowship, Hemera Foundation, Boulder.
2013 MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
2011 IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Sweden), Stockholm.
2008–2009 Stiftung Laurenz Haus Residency, Basel.
2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York.
International Studio Program, Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo.
2005–2006 Artist in Residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, Berlin.
2004 Alpert Ucross Residency Award, Wyoming.
Artist in Residence, Center for Book Arts, Mills College, Oakland.
2003 Artist in Residence, Consortium of the Arts, University of California.
2001 Driehaus Individual Artist Award, Chicago.
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York.
1998 MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1996 Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois, Chicago.
1995–1996 University Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago.
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2011 Universalmuseum, Graz, Austria. Farbenweg, indirekter.
2010 GSA Art in Architecture U.S. Border Station Project, Warroad, New Mexico.
2006 University of Chicago, Illinois. Instance the Determination.
FILMS & VIDEOS
2002 Arrow, video projection/sound including sub woofer, 28min.
2001 81N, 16mm, color, silent, 11min.
1999 52°N, 16mm, color, silent, 11min.
1998 Songs 1-9, b&w video, single channel, silent, continuous loops.
Third, b&w video projection with live sound, 45min.
1996 Untitled film, color, silent, 1min.
Schlafbau, b&w video projection, sound, 13min.
1995 I, Bear, color video, sound, 6min.
1994 The Ballad of Myra Furrow, b&w video, sound, 5min.
BOOKS
2022 Good Nothing (Leipzig: Merve Verlgag).
2015 Edge Habitat Materials (Chicago: Whitewalls).
2013 Escritura-a-través (Leipzig: Merve Verlag).
Gehend (Berlin: argobooks).
2007 Cloud, the, 3 (Zürich: Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier).
2006 Helen Mirra im Grunewald (Berlin: DAAD).
2002 Sky-wreck (Chicago: The Renaissance Society).
1999 Names & Poems (Chicago: Whitewalls).
Alow (Chicago: Herkimer).
ALBUMS
2015 Kwangsi-Quail, with Fred Frith (Lisbon: Shhpuma).
Maps of parallels 41 and 49 N, at a scale of one second to one degree *, with Ernst Karel
(Lisbon: Shhpuma).
2000 Field Geometry (Chicago: Explain).
1999 Along, Below (Chicago: Herkimer).
1996 Stowaway (Chicago: Herkimer).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017 Rekade, Christiane. Helen Mirra: Gehen, weben (Merano: Kunst Meran, 2017).
Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Coblentz, Cassandra. Ellen Lesperance, Helen Mirra, Traversing (Pasadena: Armory Press, 2016).
Exhibition catalogue.
2006 Meschede, Friedrich. Helen Mirra: im Grunewald Berlin (Berlin: daadgalerie, 2006).
Exhibition catalogue.
2003 Vegh, Christina. Land, Land! Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander and Katja Strunz
(Basel: Schwabe & Co. AG, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.
2002 Bervin, Jen, Ben Marcus, and Hamza Walker. Helen Mirra: Sky-wreck
(Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2002). Exhibition catalogue.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, FranceSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York