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'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[conceptual art]]ist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://frieze.com/article/reference-material|title=''Reference Material''|last1=Eleey|first1=Peter|date=January 2006|work=Frieze Magazine}}</ref> She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehighline.org/activities/helen-mirra-half-smiler|title=HIGH LINE ART COMMISSION: Helen Mirra, Half-smiler {{!}} Friends of the High Line|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.largeglass.co.uk/Stephen-Batchelor-Talk|title=Stephen Batchelor Talk|last=|first=|date=|website=www.largeglass.co.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, particularly zen,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.artcritical.com/2015/09/13/emmalea-russo-with-helen-mirra/|title=“Not-knowing is most intimate”: Helen Mirra in Conversation with Emmalea Russo|last=|first=|date=2015-09-13|work=artcritical|access-date=|language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Pragmatism|pragmatist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/209|title=BAMPFA - Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209 - 65 Instants|last=|first=|date=|website=archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collection.fraclorraine.org/parcour/showtext/12?wid=694&lang=en|title=Collection FRAC Lorraine {{!}} Helen Mirra:Human Ken, 24|last=|first=|date=|website=collection.fraclorraine.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> philosophy, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/helen-mirra/pressrelease/|title=Conscience de pierre press release|last=|first=|date=2010|website=Galerie Nelson Freeman|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/32730_helen_mirra|title="This is my interest anyway - to not-demand" - Interview with Helen Mirra - Features - Metropolis M|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=|language=en}}</ref> In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Lippit_2011.pdf|title="Ambulations", gehend (Berlin: argobooks, 2013)|last=Lippit|first=Yukio|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
'''Hendl Helen Mirra'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hendl Helen Mirra |url=https://www.hmirra.net/biography/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=www.hmirra.net}}</ref> is an American [[conceptual art]]ist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://frieze.com/article/reference-material|title=''Reference Material''|last1=Eleey|first1=Peter|date=January 2006|work=Frieze Magazine}}</ref> She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehighline.org/activities/helen-mirra-half-smiler|title=HIGH LINE ART COMMISSION: Helen Mirra, Half-smiler {{!}} Friends of the High Line|access-date=2018-05-09|archive-date=2018-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115304/http://www.thehighline.org/activities/helen-mirra-half-smiler|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.largeglass.co.uk/Stephen-Batchelor-Talk|title=Stephen Batchelor Talk|website=www.largeglass.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-09-13 |title="Not-knowing is most intimate": Helen Mirra in Conversation with Emmalea Russo |url=https://artcritical.com/2015/09/13/emmalea-russo-with-helen-mirra/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2015-09-25 |work=artcritical |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Pragmatism|pragmatist]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=BAMPFA - Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209 - 65 Instants |url=https://bampfa.org/program/helen-mirra-matrix-209 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2016-07-05 |website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collection.fraclorraine.org/parcour/showtext/12?wid=694&lang=en|title=Collection FRAC Lorraine {{!}} Helen Mirra:Human Ken, 24|website=collection.fraclorraine.org}}</ref> philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Conscience de pierre press release |url=https://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/helen-mirra/press-release |website=Galerie Nelson Freeman}}</ref> She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/32730_helen_mirra|title="This is my interest anyway - to not-demand" - Interview with Helen Mirra - Features - Metropolis M|language=en}}</ref> In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Lippit_2011.pdf|title="Ambulations", gehend (Berlin: argobooks, 2013)|last=Lippit|first=Yukio}}</ref> At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2018/helen-mirra|title=reference to book coinciding with exhibition: Nueve años caminando en las laderas|website=nordenhake.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mirra |first=Helen |date=2007 |title=Cloud, the, 3 |url=https://jrp-editions.com/art/books/monographs-artists-books/cloud-the-3/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |publisher=JRP Ringier}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Helen Mirra has worked in diverse media including writing - particularly indexes<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/events/750/helen-mirra-cloud-the-3/|title=Helen Mirra: Cloud, the, 3 {{!}} Events: Reading {{!}} The Renaissance Society|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/mirra.php|title=CABINET // Inventory / Index for Der Räuber|last=|first=|date=|website=www.cabinetmagazine.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.mirra.shtml|title=Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus|last=|first=|date=March 31, 2006|website=|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref>, experimental music<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/10oct_text.html|title=Paris Transatlantic recommendations|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sonambiente.com/en/04_artists/4M2mirr_werk.html|title=sonambiente berlin 2006 {{!}} festival für hören und sehen {{!}} klang kunst sound art {{!}} 1.6.-16.7|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, sculpture, 16mm film, and video<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/helen-mirra/|title=Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional - Art & Education|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. Travel and the landscape have been reoccurring themes, as well as childhood and labor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vdb.org/artists/helen-mirra|title=Helen Mirra {{!}} Video Data Bank|last=|first=|date=|website=www.vdb.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, while keeping within a restricted palette.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/158460|title=About This Artwork: Map of Parallel 52 North at a Scale of One Foot to One Degree|last=|first=|date=|website=Art Institute of Chicago|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=}}</ref> Her first solo gallery exhibition was in Chicago in 1999 and included a 16mm silent film, textile works, and the vinyl record ''Along, Below'', all relating to geography, and her first one-person institutional exhibition, ''Sky-wreck'', at the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]] in 2001, was a indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/|title=Helen Mirra: Skywreck|last=|first=|date=|website=Renaissance Society|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Walker_2002.pdf|title=Thread-skies|last=Walker|first=Hamza|date=2001|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. In addition to [[John Cage]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Camper_2005.pdf|title=Chicago Reader: Rethinking Thought: Helen Mirra|last=Camper|first=Fred|date=July 8, 2005|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> Stanley Brouwn, [[:fr:André_Cadere|André Cadere]], and [[Douglas Huebler]] are key influences.<ref name=":0" />
Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries.html|title=Helen Mirra|last=Smith|first=Roberta|work=The New York Times|date=3 January 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> writing - particularly indexes,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/events/750/helen-mirra-cloud-the-3/|title=Helen Mirra: Cloud, the, 3 {{!}} Events: Reading {{!}} The Renaissance Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/mirra.php|title=CABINET // Inventory / Index for Der Räuber|website=www.cabinetmagazine.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.mirra.shtml|title=Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus|date=March 31, 2006}}</ref> experimental music,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/10oct_text.html|title=Paris Transatlantic recommendations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sonambiente.com/en/04_artists/4M2mirr_werk.html|title=sonambiente berlin 2006 {{!}} festival für hören und sehen {{!}} klang kunst sound art {{!}} 1.6.-16.7}}</ref> sculpture, 16mm film, and video.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirra {{!}} Video Data Bank |url=http://www.vdb.org/artists/helen-mirra |website=www.vdb.org |language=en}}</ref> "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional - Art & Education |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107383/helen-mirrahourly-directional/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |language=en}}</ref> while keeping within a restricted palette.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/158460|title=About This Artwork: Map of Parallel 52 North at a Scale of One Foot to One Degree|website=Art Institute of Chicago|year=1999}}</ref> Her first one-person institutional exhibition, ''Sky-wreck'', at the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]] in 2001, was an indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/|title=Helen Mirra: Skywreck|website=Renaissance Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Walker_2002.pdf|title=Thread-skies|last=Walker|first=Hamza|date=2001}}</ref> In addition to [[John Cage]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Camper_2005.pdf|title=Chicago Reader: Rethinking Thought: Helen Mirra|last=Camper|first=Fred|date=July 8, 2005}}</ref> Stanley Brouwn, [[André Cadere]], and [[Douglas Huebler]] are key influences.<ref name=":0" />


She has an extensive exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/leaving-to-return/|title=Bienal de Cuenca|website=e-flux}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/6263/|title=Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery}}</ref> and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, [http://www.culturgest.pt/arquivo/2014/expos/helenmirra.html ''Edge Habitat''], was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication ''Edge Habitat Materials'' was published by WhiteWalls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo20700535.html|title=Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=University of Chicago Press|accessdate=}}</ref>
She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/leaving-to-return/|title=Bienal de Cuenca|website=e-flux}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/6263/|title=Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery}}</ref> and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, ''[https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/30943/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication ''Edge Habitat Materials'' was published by Whitewalls.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://listart.mit.edu/art-artists/publications/helen-mirra-edge-habitat-materials |title=Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009 |publisher=University of Chicago Press}}</ref>


She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Stewart_2003.pdf|title=Muse and medium|last=Stewart|first=|date=2003|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411112727/http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/mirra.html|title=Visual and Environmental Studies faculty: Helen Mirra|last=|first=|date=2013|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=}}</ref> She has been an artist-in-residence at [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|title=ARC Visiting Artists|accessdate=}}</ref> and a guest of the [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veroeffentlichungen.php|title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm|website=|accessdate=}}</ref> She lives in Northern California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.platformgreen.org/projects-index/305-mirra-2|title=125. PART 1 / HELEN MIRRA|last=Lerda|first=Andrea|date=|website=|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Stewart_2003.pdf|title=Muse and medium|last=Stewart|date=2003}}</ref> and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/mirra.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411112727/http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/mirra.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-11|title=Visual and Environmental Studies faculty: Helen Mirra|date=2013}}</ref> She has been an artist-in-residence at [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|title=ARC Visiting Artists}}</ref> and a guest of the [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm |url=https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/artist/helen-mirra/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=}}</ref> She lives in Northern California.<ref>{{Cite web|last=lottozero|title=HELEN MIRRA|url=https://www.lottozero.org/portrait-helen-mirra?locale=en|language=en}}</ref>


==Selected solo exhibitions==
==Selected solo exhibitions==
*[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/ ''Sky-wreck''], [[Renaissance Society]], 2001
*[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/ ''Sky-wreck''], [[Renaissance Society]], 2001
*''Declining Interval Lands<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Mirra_Whitney.pdf|title=From Land and Sound to Thought|last1=Richard|first1=Frances|date=2002|work=Whitney Museum brochure}}</ref>'', [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], 2002
*''Declining Interval Lands<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Mirra_Whitney.pdf|title=From Land and Sound to Thought|last1=Richard|first1=Frances|date=2002|work=Whitney Museum brochure}}</ref>'', [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], 2002
*''[http://archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/209 65 Instants]'', MATRIX 209, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003
*''[https://bampfa.org/program/helen-mirra-matrix-209 65 Instants],'' MATRIX 209, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra-gehend-field-recordings-1-3/ Gehend]'', Bonner Kunstverein, KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, 2011-2012
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra-gehend-field-recordings-1-3/ Gehend]'', Bonner Kunstverein, KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, 2011-2012
*''[https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/hourly-directional-helen-mirra-ernst-karel Hourly Directional]'' with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center, 2014
*''[https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/hourly-directional-helen-mirra-ernst-karel Hourly Directional]'' with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center, 2014
*''[http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/helen-mirra/ Hourly Directional]'', Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2014
*''[https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107383/helen-mirrahourly-directional/ Hourly Directional],'' Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2014
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', Culturgest, Lisbon Portugal, 2014
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', Culturgest, Lisbon Portugal, 2014
*''Waulked,'' <ref>{{cite news|last1=Farzin|first1=Media|title=Helen Mirra’s "Waulked"|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/helen-mirra%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwaulked%E2%80%9D/|work=Art Agenda|date=October 13, 2014}}</ref> Peter Freeman Inc., New York, 2014
*''Waulked,'' <ref>{{cite news|last1=Farzin|first1=Media|title=Helen Mirra's "Waulked"|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/helen-mirra%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwaulked%E2%80%9D/|work=Art Agenda|date=October 13, 2014}}</ref> Peter Freeman Inc., New York, 2014
*''Helen Mirra'', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2015<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andersson|first1=Axel|title=Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet|url=http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/tid-omvandlad-till-konkret-rumslighet|work=Kunstkritikk|date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
*''Helen Mirra'', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2015<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andersson|first1=Axel|title=Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet|url=http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/tid-omvandlad-till-konkret-rumslighet|work=Kunstkritikk|date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
* [http://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2018/n *] , Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2018
* [http://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2018/n *], Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2018
*''la malplena ĉambro estas bela'', Large Glass, London, 2020


==References==
==References==
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Hendl Helen Mirra
Born(1970-12-31)December 31, 1970
Rochester New York
EducationBennington College, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hendl Helen Mirra[1] is an American conceptual artist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.[2] She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist[3][4][5] and pragmatist[6][7] philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.[8] She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity."[9] In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery."[10] At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material.[11][12]

Career

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Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving,[13] writing - particularly indexes,[14][15][16] experimental music,[17][18] sculpture, 16mm film, and video.[19] "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme,[20] while keeping within a restricted palette.[21] Her first one-person institutional exhibition, Sky-wreck, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001, was an indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure.[22][23] In addition to John Cage,[24] Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, and Douglas Huebler are key influences.[9]

She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,[25][26] and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by Whitewalls.[27]

She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005)[28] and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013.[29] She has been an artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,[30] and a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.[31] She lives in Northern California.[32]

Selected solo exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ "Hendl Helen Mirra". www.hmirra.net. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  2. ^ Eleey, Peter (January 2006). "Reference Material". Frieze Magazine.
  3. ^ "HIGH LINE ART COMMISSION: Helen Mirra, Half-smiler | Friends of the High Line". Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Stephen Batchelor Talk". www.largeglass.co.uk.
  5. ^ ""Not-knowing is most intimate": Helen Mirra in Conversation with Emmalea Russo". artcritical. 2015-09-13. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  6. ^ "BAMPFA - Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209 - 65 Instants". Retrieved 2016-07-05.
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  8. ^ "Conscience de pierre press release". Galerie Nelson Freeman. 2010.
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  10. ^ Lippit, Yukio. ""Ambulations", gehend (Berlin: argobooks, 2013)" (PDF).
  11. ^ "reference to book coinciding with exhibition: Nueve años caminando en las laderas". nordenhake.com.
  12. ^ Mirra, Helen (2007). "Cloud, the, 3". JRP Ringier.
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  16. ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
  17. ^ "Paris Transatlantic recommendations".
  18. ^ "sonambiente berlin 2006 | festival für hören und sehen | klang kunst sound art | 1.6.-16.7".
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  21. ^ "About This Artwork: Map of Parallel 52 North at a Scale of One Foot to One Degree". Art Institute of Chicago. 1999.
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  25. ^ "Bienal de Cuenca". e-flux.
  26. ^ "Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery".
  27. ^ Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009. University of Chicago Press.
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  30. ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
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  35. ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.
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