Installation view "Helen Mirra. Nueve años caminando en las laderas/Nine Years of Slope Walking" MAZ, Museo de arte de Zapopan, Mexico, 2020/2021, photo: Itzel Hernández

Hendl Helen Mirra

Hendl Helen Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970 and lives in West Marin, California. Major solo exhibitions include Rochechouart Museum (2022); Museo de Arte Zapopan, Jalisco (2020); Berkeley Art Museum (2019); The Aspen Art Museum (2015); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2012); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Bonner Kunstverein (both 2011); Dallas Museum of Art (2004); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002); and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2001). A fifteen-year survey (1996-2010) of her work was presented at Culturgest in Lisbon in 2014. In 2023 the Swiss Institute, New York has commissioned the work Harmless mistake as part of the long-term exhibition Spora on view until May 2025.

She participated in the XIII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City and Antigua GT (2023), the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012) and the 50th Venice Biennial (2003). Mirra has been awarded various awards, including DAAD in Berlin (2005/2006), OCA in Oslo (2007/08), IASPIS in Stockholm (2011), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2020).

Detail, Sky-wreck 1/22, 2001, handwoven indigo dyed cotton, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

Installation view, Sky-wreck 1/22, 2001, handwoven indigo dyed cotton, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

Installation view, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

Installation view, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

Installation view, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

Installation view, Château de Rochechouart, France, 2022. Photo Aurélien Mole.

"Käutzchensteig", installation view exhibition "Cloud, the, 3", daadgalerie Berlin, 2006

Installation view "ĉielarka aktivec’", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2020

Index card, 2020, Ink on paper, 15.3 x 10.2 cm

Installation view "ĉielarka aktivec’", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2020

Novembro, 2019, undyed wool, 84.5 x 59.5 x 1 cm

Novembro, 2019, detail

Julio, 2019, Linen, 79 x 56 x 3 cm

Majo, 2020, Linen, wool, 87 x 53 x 1 cm

Majo, 2020, Detail

Installation view "ĉielarka aktivec’", Berlin 2020

Oktobro, fire basket, for Marjetica Potrč, 2019, Linen and mushroom-dyed wool, 39 x 50 x 2 cm |

Installation view "Nueve años caminando en las laderas", Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City , 2018

Installation View "*", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, 2018

Installation view "Helen Mirra – Allyson Strafella", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2016

Grayish green, rhubarb-dyed blue-green, yellow-green, lichen-dyed light brown, 2015, linen and wool on linen, 70 x 39.5 cm

Medium saxon blue, dark blue, 2015, linen and wool on linen, 91 x 43 cm

Installation view "Helen Mirra", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2015

Waulked Triangle, 2015, undyed wool from two black sheep, strand of wool dyed with hydnellum caeruleum, cork, cedar, 74 x 86 cm

Installation view "Helen Mirra", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2015

Walking comma, 02 October, Cortina, 2013, black and white photograph and text, framed, 28 x 43 cm

Installation View "Edge Habitat" Culturgest, Lisbon 2014

Installation View "Edge Habitat" Culturgest, Lisbon 2014

Grey/G, 2004, ink on cotton, 1.6 x 255 cm, Detail

Hourly field notes, 10 October, Dakesawa, 2012, detail

Hourly field notes, 10 October, Dakesawa, 2012, ink on cotton, 7 sections, each 16 mm x 1 mm

Hourly directional field recordings, Monte Orlando, 6 May, 2011, oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm

Hourly directional field recordings, Gravagna, 11 May 2011, oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm

Phyllodoce caerulea & Achillea millefolium (Blue heath & Yarrow), 2007, pressed vascular plants, 29,5 x 48,5 cm

Metamorphosed, 2007, cotton (shirts), serpentinite rock with hematite, casein-painted magnesite and chlorite, 10 x 23 x 30 cm

Sky-wreck, 2001, handwoven indigo dyed cotton, 1/11th of the sky, The Renaissance Societey Chicago, 2001

Sky-wreck, 2001, detail

Installation view "Helen Mirra – Edge Habitat", Culturgest, Lisbon 2014 (exhibition), Sidewalk cover, 1998