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Helen Mirra

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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.

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.

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.[1] A 15-year survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal.

Selected exhibitions

  • Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society, May 6–June 24, 2001
  • Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 21-December 8, 2002[2]
  • Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, September 2-October 17 2014
  • Waulked, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, September 11–October 25, 2014[3]
  • Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, August 20–September 26, 2015[4]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, Laurie (May 1999). "Helen Mirra". Frieze (46).
  2. ^ Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
  3. ^ Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
  4. ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.