Helen Mirra
Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.
She was born in Rochester, New York in 1970, graduated from Bennington College in 1991, and received her MFA in studio art from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996. 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.[1]
Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking. She participated in the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. She has had solo 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.[2] 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.[3]
Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,[4] with the DAAD in Berlin,[5] and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[6] She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago[7] and as Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.[8]
Selected exhibitions
- Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society, May 6–June 24, 2001
- Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 21 - December 8, 2002[9]
- 65 Instants, Berkeley Art Museum, November 23, 2003 - January 25, 2004
- Hourly Directional with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center, February 7 - April 6, 2014
- Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 24 - June 6 & September 2-October 17, 2014
- Waulked,, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, September 11 - October 25, 2014[10]
- Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, August 20 - September 26, 2015[11]
References
- ↑ Palmer, Laurie (May 1999). "Helen Mirra". Frieze (46).
- ↑ "Helen Mirra, gehend".
- ↑ "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.
External links
- artist's website
- Peter Eleey, Reference Material, Frieze Magazine, January 2006:146-9
- conversation with Emmalea Russo, artcritical, September 13, 2015