| HELEN MIRRA | |
| Born in 1970, Rochester, New York | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1996 | MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1991 | BA, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont |
| 1987 | Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | Sudden and creeping violence : Concentrations 45, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas |
| Galerie Nelson, Paris, France | |
| Miscellaneous papers , Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Hewn third , Peter Freeman, New York, New York | |
| 2003 | 65 instants , Matrix at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California |
| Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Great Britain | |
| 2002 | DYG Projects: Helen Mirra, Arrow, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Nicola Sacco, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan | |
| 2001 | Miller's Views, Statements, Meyer Riegger Galerie at Art Basel |
| Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society, Chicago | |
| 2000 |
beforsten, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe |
| Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties , Gasser & Grunert, New York | |
| 1999 | Chicago Project Room, Chicago |
| 1997 | Rx (project space), Chicago |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2005 | Odd Lots , White Columns & Queens Museum of Art, New York, New York |
| 2004 | Formalismus , Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics , Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany (organized by Christopher Keller) | |
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago |
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| 2003-05 | The Paper Sculpture Show, co-curated by Mary Ceruti, Matt Freedman and Sina Najafi; organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Traveling to: Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California |
| 2003 | Land, Land!: Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander, Katja Strunz , Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland |
| 50th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy | |
| 2002 | Zusammenhänge herstellen, Kunstverein Hamburg |
| Artist as Navigator, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto | |
| Sound Canopy, sound installation, supported by the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago | |
| Public Radio (Cargnelli, Penker and Szely), KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia | |
| Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, San Francisco | |
| Waiting for the Ice Age, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna | |
| 2001 | Tirana Biennial, Albania |
| untitled 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense | |
| Contextual, Chicago Cultural Center | |
| To your left is the South, Refusalon, San Francisco | |
| Making the Making, Apex Art, New York | |
| Seems, Block Museum, Chicago | |
| 2000 | Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| Sound, Video, Film, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago | |
| Static, Grand Central Arts, Santa Ana, California | |
| 1999 | You Smile and I Am Rubbing My Eyes, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen |
| The Stroke, Exit Art/The First World, New York | |
| Faucet, Exit Art/The First World, New York | |
| 1998 | Trance, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Scott Hug, Helen Mirra, CAR, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna | |
| Pandemonium, London Electronic Arts, London | |
| No Budget, 57 Hope, Brooklyn, New York | |
| Video & Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| 1997 | Some Kind of Heaven, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany |
| art club berlin, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin | |
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Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| BOOKS AND RECORDINGS | |
| 2002
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Miller, with Ernst Karel |
| 2000 | Field Geometry (explain:) |
| 1999 | Names & Poems (Whitewalls) |
| Alow
(Gasser and Grunert) Along, Below (Herkimer) |
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| 1996 | Stowaway (Herkimer) |
| GRANTS AND AWARDS | |
| 2005 | Deutscher Akademischer Autauschdienst (DAAD) Artist-in-Residence, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Alpert Ucross Residency Award |
| 2003 | Artist-in-Residence, Consortium of the Arts, UC Berkeley |
| 2002 | Bleckede Resident Scholarship (declined) |
| 2001 | Driehaus Individual Artist Award |
| 1999 | Louis Comfort Tiffany Award |
| 1997-98 | Macdowell Residency |
| 1996 | Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois |
| 1995-96 | University Fellowship, University of Illinois |
| Please contact the gallery for more information | |
 
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