Helen Mirra was born in 1970 in Rochester, New York. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

EDUCATION

M.F.A. in Studio Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1996

B.A. in Studio Art and Contemporary Art History, Bennington College, Vermont, May 1991

 

SOLO SHOWS

2022

Raffaella Cortese, Milan IT
du vent au vent, Musée d’art contemporain de la haute-vienne, Rochechouart FR

 

2021

Gletscherbachfloß (Glacial-river-raft), Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe DE

 

2020

Nueve años caminado en las laderas (Nine years of slope-walking)
Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco MX
ĉielarka aktivec’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
la malplena ĉambro estas bela, Large Glass, London
Acts for placing woolen and linen, Cample Line, Cample Hill, SCT*

 

2019

freundlich Nein / friendly No, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe DE

 

2018

Nueve años caminado en las laderas (Nine years of slope-walking), NHMX, Mexico City
Bones are spaces, Peter Freeman, New York
* , Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

 

2017

Voluntary Weathering, Andriesse Eyck, Amsterdam
Gehen, weben / Camminare, tessere, Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, IT*
Variable Weather, Andriesse Eyck, Amsterdam

 

2015

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

 

2014

Waulked, Peter Freeman, New York
Habitat de Transição, Culturgest, Lisbon
Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study, Cambridge MA

 

2013

Raffaella Cortese, Milan IT

 

2012

Hourly directional field notation, Bretagne, Taka Ishii, Tokyo
gehend (Field Recordings 1-3), Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich*

 

2011

Field Notation, Peter Freeman, New York
gehend (Field Recordings 1-3), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin;
Bonner Kunstverein, DE*
Field Index 3, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

 

2006-9
Instance the Determination, public project, University of Chicago, IL

 

2008
Helen Mirra & Alison Knowles, Unimedia Modern, and Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa

Helen Mirra, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont

Quarry, Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE

 

2007
Grotesk Gegend, Alte Fabrik (Gebert Stiftung für Kultur), Rapperswil, CH*

Waldau, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D

 

2006
Break camp, Peter Freeman, New York

Cloud, the, 3, DAAD Galerie, Berlin*

Käuzchensteig, Galerie Nelson, Paris, F

 

2005
PIAC (Piattaforma internazionale arte contemporanea) Ragusa, I

Laws of clash, 247, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

 

2004
Sudden and creeping violence, Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 45, TX*

Miscellaneous papers, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D

Hewn third, Peter Freeman, New York

 

2003
65 instants, Matrix: UC Berkeley Art Museum, CA*

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, GB

 

2002
Arrow, DYG Projects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

48°N, Backdrop, (with Gaylen Gerber) Michael Hall Galerie, Vienna, A

Nicola Sacco, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano, I

Declining IntervalLands, Whitney Museum of American Art: Contemporary Series,New York*

 

2001
Miller’s Views, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Art Statements, Art 32 Basel, CH

Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society, Chicago*

 

2000
beforsten, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D

Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties, Gasser & Grunert, New York

 

1999
Chicago Project Room, Chicago

 

1997
Rx (project space), Chicago

Chicago Project Room, Chicago

1996 Here But Not Here, (With Charles Goldman) Gallery 400, Chicago

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Backgrounds: Impressions Photographiques IV, Peter Freeman, New York
Paragraph, Andriess Eyck, Amsterdam
Arboreal, / , San Francisco

 

2020

Musterung / Examination of a case, Kunst Sammlungen Chemnitz DE
Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe. GAK Bremen DE
Sedimentations: Brushing History Against the Grain, Martin Janda, Vienna
Orthodox Abstraction, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Into the Labyrinth, Dalby Forest UK
On the ground, Luis Adelantado, Valencia ES
The Quiet Show, Elizabeth Leach, Portland OR

 

2019

Concerning Superfluities, Essex Street, New York
Marcelle Alix ouverte, Marcelle Alix, Paris
Nurikabe, Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko JP
25th Anniversary, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
New Movement, The Cost Annex, Boston
Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Helen Mirra, Hayley Tompkins
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
In the Labyrinth, Large Glass, London
A Day’s Work, SKK Soest, DE*

 

2018

A Coin in Nine Hands, Part 8, Large Glass, London*
Forest Island, Household, Los Angeles*
A Body Measured Against the Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale CN
Happy Little Trees and other recent acquisitions, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Der erweiterte Blick / The extended view, Kunstverein Langenhagen DE
Matriz do Tempo Real, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Universidade de São Paulo BR
A Simple Fraction, Doyers, New York

 

2017

2057, Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
We Are Here, MCA Chicago
Für die Ewigkeit, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg DE
Incident Report, September, Hudson NY
Listen Hear, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

 

2016

I Went to the Woods, Lewis Gluckman Gallery, University College Cork IR
Ballistic Poetry, La Verriere-Hermes Foundation, Brussels BE
l’Épais Réel, la Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes FR
Accueille-moi paysage, Marcelle Alix, Paris
Narrativas monumentales, MAC Gas Natural Fenosa Museum, Coruña ES
tout le monde, le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine FR

 

2015

Ordering Nature, Boesky East, New York
Under Construction, Paramo, Guadalajara
Mountains with a broken edge, Havana Bienal, Cuba
Walking Sculpture, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln Massachusetts*
Scientific Gardening, Eres Stiftung, Munich DE
Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

 

2014

SOME/THINGS, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Indeterminancy, The Large Glass, London
Falso movimento, Luciana Caravello, Rio BR
Cuenca Bienal, Ecuador

 

2013

Dust Breeding, Churner and Churner, New York
Tehachapi: Robert Barry, Helen Mirra, Matt Sheridan Smith
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
Sin motivo aparente, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid
L’image Papillon, Mudam Luxembourg
Oltremare, Vistamare, Pescara IT
Patricia Dauder, Guillaume Leblon, Helen Mirra, Christoph Weber
ProjecteSD, Barcelona ES

 

2012

In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA*
Postscript, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; The Power Plant, Toronto;
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University
Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, FR
30th Bienal de São Paulo, BR
Treffpunkt: Berlin, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, DK
There was a country where they were all thieves
Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Unfinished Journeys, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo
Formes Breves, Autres, 25, FRAC Lorraine, FR

 

2011

Post, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank AU
Belvedere: Warum ist Landschaft Schön?, Arp Museum, Remagen DE
Science & Fiction, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, CH
Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery, London
Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World), Kunsthaus Graz, AT
Arte Essenziale (Essential Art), Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia IT
Five Easy Pieces, Franco Noero, Torino IT

 

2010

Die Natur ruft!, Daadgalerie, Berlin
Habiter poétiquement le monde (The World as Poem),
LaM – Lille Métropole Musee, FR

 

2009

Pittoresk – Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild, MARTa Herford, DE
(Z)ART, curated by Jan Hoet. Abtart, Stuttgart DE
Chapter Four: Word Wraps, About Change Collection, Berlin
Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent (The Garden of Forking Path),
Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR
Livsformer/Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Reduced Visibility, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fragile, Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole, FR
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Le Travail de riviere, le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine FR
How To Work Better: Das Büro im Atelier, Jena DE

 

2008
Observing beast, time, evolution: Kunst und Naturwissenschaft, Kunstverein Hildesheim and the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, D

Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert, Paris

Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, D

Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, Museo ARCOS, Benevento Italy

 

2007
Drawing a Tiger, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

No Context (Gardar Eide Einarsson, Sean Landers, Darren Bader, Helen Mirra, Hiroshi

Teshigawara), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Art & Language, Stephanie Brooks, Helen Mirra, and Ian Wilson, Peter Blum, New York

Place of the Transcommon, Inova (Institute for Visual Art), Milwaukee

 

2006
Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, CH

Planting the tele, Mary Mary, Glasgow

Helen Mirra, Sharon Harper, Carpenter Center, Harvard Unversity, Cambridge MA

Sonambiente, festival für hören und sehen, Berlin

Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York

 

2005
The Plain of Heaven, curated by Peter Eleey, at the end of the High Line, New York

Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates”, White Columns, New York

Set (Helen Mirra, Lisa Lapinski, Yuki Kimura) Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario Canada

Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, ND

 

2004
Material as Metaphor (Beuys, Balka, Kiaer, Manders, Mirra) Tanya Bonakdar,New York

Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin. organized by Christoph Keller

Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

 

2003
Delays and Revolutions, 50th Venice Biennale (italian pavilion)

Paper Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York. travelling

Subject Index, The Pond, Chicago

Going A Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

There’s no land but the land, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D

Land, Land (with Rivane Neunschwander and Katya Strunz) Kunsthalle Basel, CH

 

2002
Art Projects, Art Basel: Miami. curated by James Rondeau

Here and now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Zusammenhänge herstellen, Kunstverein Hamburg

Sound Canopy, sound installation. supported by Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Public Radio (Cargnelli, Penker and Szely), KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia

Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, San Francisco

 

2001
Tirana Biennial 1, Albania*

Fresh, New Museum, New York

untitled 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense

Contextual, Chicago Cultural Center

Making the Making, Apex Art, New York

Seems, Block Museum, Chicago*

 

2000
Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Sound, Video, Film, Donald Young, Chicago

Static, Grand Central Arts, Santa Ana, California

 

1999
You Smile and I Am Rubbing My Eyes, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen

The Stroke, Exit Art/The First World, New York

 

1998
Trance, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pandemonium, London Electronic Arts, London

Video & Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

 

1997
Some Kind of Heaven, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, D, and South London Gallery, GB*

Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

1996
Found Footage, Gasser & Grunert, Cologne, D

Persona, The Renaissance Society, Chicago and Kunsthalle Basel, CH*

 

FILM AND VIDEO
Arrow, video projection/sound including subwoofer, 28min., 2002

81°N, 16mm film, color, silent, 11min., 2001

52°N, 16mm film, color, silent, 11min., 1999

Songs 1-9, b&w video, single channel, silent, continuous loops, 1998

Third, b&w video projection with live sound, 45min., 1998

untitled film, color, silent, 1min., 1996

Schlafbau, b&w video projection, sound, 13min, 1996

I, Bear, color video, sound, 6min., 1995

The Ballad of Myra Furrow, b&w video, sound, 5min., 1994

BOOKS
Cloud, the, 3, afterword by Lyn Hejinian. Christoph Keller Editions, 2007

Helen Mirra im Grunewald, essay by Friedrich Meschede. DAAD Berlin, 2006

Sky-wreck, texts by Hamza Walker, Ben Marcus, Jen Bervin. The Renaissance Society, 2002

Names & Poems. Whitewalls, 1999

Alow. Herkimer, 1999

RECORDINGS
with Fred Frith: Quangsi – Quail (forthcoming)

with Ernst Karel: Maps of Parallels 41° & 49°N (forthcoming)

Field Geometry. Explain:, 2000

Along, Below. Herkimer, 1999

Stowaway (Herkimer, 1996)

 

PRIZES
IASPIS, Stockholm, SE, 2010

Stiftung Laurenz Haus, Basel, CH, 2008-09

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue (Boston), 2007

International Studio Program, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, summer 2007

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Kunstlerprogramm, Berlin, 2005-06

Alpert Ucross Residency Award, 2004

Artist-in-residence, Center for Book Arts, Mills College, Oakland CA, March 2004

Artist-in-residence, Consortium of the Arts, University of California at Berkeley, 2003

Driehaus Individual Artist Award, 2001

Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 1999

Macdowell Residency, 1998

Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois, 1996

University Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1995-96