Helen Mirra

Born	December 31, 1970 Rochester New York

Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.

She has made projects and exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,^[1][2] including participation 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.^[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. An open-ended and ecologically-minded brevity has been a continuous aspect of her idiosyncratic practice.^[4][5][6] Since 2007 walking has been her key activity.^[7][8]

Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,^[9] and a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.^[10] She taught for some years, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago^[11] and as Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.^[12]

Selected solo exhibitions

• Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society
• Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art^[13]
• 65 Instants, MATRIX 209, 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^[14]
• Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm^[15]

References

1. "Bienal de Cuenca". e-flux.
2. "Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery".
3. "Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009". University of Chicago Press.
4. Eleey, Peter (January 2006). "Reference Material". Frieze Magazine.
5. "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
6. "Helen Mirra in conversation with Emmalea Russo". artcritical. September 13, 2015.
7. "Hourly Directional".
8. "Half-smiler (Aspen)".
9. "ARC Visiting Artists".
10. "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
11. "University of Chicago Humanities Open House". 2002.
12. "Visual and Environmental Studies faculty".
13. Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
14. Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
15. Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.

External links

• artist's website