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'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[Conceptual art|conceptual artist]].
'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[Conceptual art|conceptual artist]].


Mirra was born in [[Rochester, New York]] in 1970. She graduated from [[Bennington College]] in 1991, majoring in studio art and contemporary art history and she received her MFA in studio art from the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] in 1996. She taught for many years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago<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|accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and as Loeb Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University<ref>{{Cite web|title = Visual and Environmental Studies faculty|url = http://static.fas.harvard.edu/registrar/courses/VisualandEnvironmentalStudies.html|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>.
Mirra was born in [[Rochester, New York]] in 1970. She graduated from [[Bennington College]] in 1991, majoring in studio art and contemporary art history and she received her MFA in studio art from the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] in 1996. She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago<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|accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and as Loeb Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University<ref>{{Cite web|title = Visual and Environmental Studies faculty|url = http://static.fas.harvard.edu/registrar/courses/VisualandEnvironmentalStudies.html|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>.


Mirra participated in the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. She has had exhibitions at the [[Berkeley Art Museum]], [[Haus Konstruktiv]] in Zürich, the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]], and [[Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art]] in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/gehend_field_recordings_1_3_56|title = Helen Mirra, gehend|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>.
Mirra participated in the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. She has had exhibitions at the [[Berkeley Art Museum]], [[Haus Konstruktiv]] in Zürich, the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]], and [[Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art]] in Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/gehend_field_recordings_1_3_56|title = Helen Mirra, gehend|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>.

Revision as of 23:31, 25 September 2015

Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.

Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970. She graduated from Bennington College in 1991, majoring in studio art and contemporary art history and she received her MFA in studio art from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996. She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago[1] and as Loeb Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University[2].

Mirra participated in the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. She has had exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin[3].

Mirra's first solo gallery exhibition was in 1999 and included a 16mm silent film, textile works, and the vinyl record Along, Below, all relating to geography.[4] A fifteen-year 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.[5]

She was artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley[6], with the DAAD in Berlin[7], and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum[8].

Selected exhibitions

References

  1. ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
  2. ^ "Visual and Environmental Studies faculty".
  3. ^ "Helen Mirra, gehend".
  4. ^ Palmer, Laurie (May 1999). "Helen Mirra". Frieze (46).
  5. ^ "Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009". University of Chicago Press.
  6. ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
  7. ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
  8. ^ "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen".
  9. ^ Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
  10. ^ Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
  11. ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.