Helen Mirra
| Born | December 31, 1970 |
|---|---|
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
- ^ "Bienal de Cuenca". e-flux.
- ^ "Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery".
- ^ "Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009". University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Eleey, Peter (January 2006). "Reference Material". Frieze Magazine.
- ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
- ^ "Helen Mirra in conversation with Emmalea Russo". artcritical. September 13, 2015.
- ^ "Hourly Directional".
- ^ "Half-smiler (Aspen)".
- ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
- ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
- ^ "University of Chicago Humanities Open House". 2002.
- ^ "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.