Helen Mirra
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| Born | December 31, 1970 |
| Education | Bennington College, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.
Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking.[1][2][3] 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 was at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001. The open-ended and ecologically-minded brevity demonstrated then has since been a continuous aspect of her idiosyncratic practice.[4]
She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as 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.[5]
Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,[6] with the DAAD in Berlin,[7] and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[8] She taught for most of her early career, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago[9] and as Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.[10]
Selected exhibitions
- Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society
- Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art[11]
- 65 Instants, [1] Berkeley Art Museum
- Gehend, Bonner Kunstverein, KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich
- Hourly Directional with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center
- Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Edge Habitat, Culturgest, Lisbon Portugal
- Waulked,, Peter Freeman Inc., New York[12]
- Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm[13]
References
- ^ "Helen Mirra in conversation with Emmalea Russo, artcritical, September 13, 2015".
- ^ "Hourly Directional".
- ^ "Half-smiler".
- ^ "Peter Eleey, Reference Material, Frieze Magazine, January 2006:146-9".
- ^ "Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009". University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
- ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
- ^ "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen".
- ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
- ^ "Visual and Environmental Studies faculty".
- ^ Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
- ^ Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
- ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.