HELEN MIRRA
Biography
1970 Born in Rochester, New York
1987 Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York
1991 B.A., Bennington College, Vermont
1996 M.F.A., Studio Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago
Awards
2005 Artist in Residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, Berlin
2003 Artist in Residence, University of California at Berkeley
2001 Driehaus Individual Artist Award
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1997-1998 Macdowell Residency
1996 Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois
1995-1996 University Fellowship, University of Illinois
Solo Exhibitions
2006 - 2009 University of Chicago, Illinois. Instance the Determination
2007 Meyer Riegger Galeriem, Karlsruhe, D Grammatik
2006 Peter Freeman Inc, New York. Break camp
DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Cloud, the, 3
Galerie Nelson, Paris. Käuzchensteig (25 February - 7 April 2006)
2005 PIAC (Piattaforma internazionale arte contemporanea) Ragusa, Italy
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Laws of clash, 247
2004 Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 45, Texas. Sudden and creeping violence
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Helen Mirra: Hewn third
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe. Miscellaneous papers
2003 UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley. Matrix 209: 65 Instants
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Helen Mirra
2002 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. Arrow
Michael Hall Galerie, Vienna. 48°N, Backdrop (with Gaylen Gerber)
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan. Nicola Sacco
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Declining Interval Lands
2001 Meyer Riegger Galerie. Miller's Views, Statements, Art 32 Basel
Renaissance Society, Chicago. Sky-Wreck
2000 Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe. Beforsten
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York. Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties
1999 Chicago. Chicago Project Room
1997 Chicago. Rx (project space)
Chicago. Chicago Project Room
1996 Monk Parakeet, Chicago. Stowaway
Gallery 400, Chicago. Here but not here
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Mary Mary, Glasgow Planting the tele
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe. Into a Journey (5 November - 9 December 2006)
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge. Helen Mirra, Sharon Harper
Berlin, Germany. Sonambiente, festival für hören und sehen
Galerie Lelong, New York. Spectrum (9 December - 28 January 2005)
2005 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. Set (20 August - 10 September 2005)
White Columns, New York. Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta Clark's
"Fake Estates" (9 September - 18 October 2005)
High Line, New York. The Plain of Heaven
PIAC, Ragusa, Sicily
2004 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. Sudden and Creeping Violence
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe. Miscellaneous Papers
2003 Sculpture Center, New York. Paper Sculpture
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel. Land, Land!
2002 Art Basel, Miami. Art Projects
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago. Here and Now
Kunstverein Hamburg. Zusammenhänge herstellen
Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto. Artist as Navigator
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Sound Canopy
Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna. Waiting for the Ice Age
2001 Tirana Biennial, Albania.
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense. Untitled 654321
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago. Contextual
Refusalon, San Francisco. To your left is the South
ApexArt, New York. Making the Making
Block Museum, Chicago. Seems
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Age of Influence
Donald Young, Chicago. Sound, Video, Film
Grand Central Arts, Santa Ana. Static
1999 Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen. You Smile and I Am Rubbing My Eyes
Exit Art, New York. The Stroke
Exit Art/The First World, New York. Faucet
1998 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Trance
Bricks and Kicks, Vienna. Scott Hug, Helen Mirra, CAR
London Electronic Arts, London. Pandemonium
57 Hope, Brooklyn, New York. No Budget
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Video and Film
1997 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin. Art Club Berlin
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany. Some Kind of Heaven
South London Gallery, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Time Arts Chicago
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Up Close and Personal
1996 Gasser and Grunert, Cologne. Found Footage
University of California, San Diego. Super Super 8
Renaissance Society, Chicago. Persona
Kunsthalle, Basel.
San Francisco. Swell, Rour Walls
1995 Anthology Film Archive, New York. Mix
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago. Youth Culture Killed My Dog
Films and Videos
Arrow, 2002, video projection/sound including sub woofer, 28min
81N, 2001,16mm, color, silent, 11min
52̊N, 1999,16mm, color, silent, 11min
Songs 1-9, 1998, b&w video, single channel, silent, continuous loops
Third, 1998, b&w video projection with live sound, 45min
Untitled film, 1996, color, silent, 1min
Schlafbau,1996 b&w video projection, sound, 13min
I, Bear, 1995, color video, sound, 6min
The Ballad of Myra Furrow, 1994, b&w video, sound, 5min
Books and Recordings
Walker, Hamza, Ben Marcus and Jen Bervin. Sky-wreck (Chicago:The Renaissance Society, 2002)
Texts by Field Geometry (2000)
Names & Poems (Whitewalls, 1999)
Alow (Herkimer, 1999)
Along, Below (Herkimer, 1999
Stowaway (Herkimer, 1999)
Publications
Stage/Levy (Paper sculpture, D.A.P., 2003)
School-year (Cabinet Magazine, Issue 9, Winter 2003)
Monster Baby, Fabricius, Jacob and Tommy Lund on untitled 654321 (CD, 2001)
Fabricius, Jacob. Chapters, Yours Truly, (2000)
Collaboration with Gaylen Gerber for Whitewalls #40: Loose Canon, "untitled", (1999)
Collaboration with Fred Lonberg-Holm on his recording Site specific, "track 9", (1999)
Whitewalls #38: Play, I Bear, (1998)
Selected Bibliography
Leinberger, Rena. "Interview: Helen Mirra", Bridge Magazine (Chicago: 2003)
Möntemann, Nina. Zusammenhänge herstellen, (Hamburg: Kunstverein, 2003)
Cream, (London: Phaidon, 2003)
Végh, Christina. Land Land, (Basel: Kunsthalle 2003)
Artner, Alan. "Chicagoans of the year-Helen Mirra: Concepts Fuel Work", Chicago Tribune,
(29 December 2002).
Stein, Lisa. "Helen Mirra adopts an assertive air", Chicago Tribune, (December 20, 2002)
Section 7, p 23
Orchard, William. Tableau, (Spring 2002). Vol 4 n 1, p 3.
"Goings on about town", The New Yorker, (28 October 2002)
Richard, Frances. Declining Interval Lands, (2002)
Elms, Anthony. Here and Now, (Chicago: Whitewalls, 2002)
Rugoff, Ralph. Sudden Glory, (San Francisco: CCAC, 2002)
Palmer, Laurie. Seems, (2001)
Snodgrass, Susan. "Helen Mirra", Art in America, (December 2001). Article p 124
Hixson, Kathryn. "Helen Mirra", New Art Examiner (November 2001). Article p 83
Bolle, Susuanna. "Tones and Drones in Chicago", XLR8R#54, (November 2001). Article p 26
Yood, James. "Helen Mirra", Art Forum, (September 2001). Article p 198
Princenthal, Nancy. "Artist's Book Beat", Art on Paper, (September 2001). Article p 98
Meyer, Bill. "Music Review: Transmissions", Chicago Tribune, (14 August 2001)
Erickson, Karl. "Chicago Five", artnet.com, (18 August 2000 )
Spector, Buzz. "Helen Mirra: Names and Poems", The Octopus, (July 2000)
Johnson, Ken. "Recommended/Last chance: Helen Mirra", New York Times, (June 2000)
"Helen Mirra: Field Geometry", Other Music, (June 2000)
Erickson, Karl. "On Books: Helen Mirra", New Art Examiner, (December/January 2000). Article p 60
Swartz,Marc. "Review: Helen Mirra", Circa88, (summer 1999)
Meyer, Bill. "Critic's choice", Chicago Reader, (May 7 1999)
Palmer, Laurie. "review: Helen Mirra", frieze, (May 1999, Issue #46). Article p. 97
Estep, Jan. "Helen Mirra", New Art Examiner, (April 1999). Article p 45
Camper, Fred. "Helen Mirra", Chicago Reader, (11 February 1999). Article p.32
Zdadonovics, Olga. "review: Color TV", New Art Examiner, (April 1997). Article p.42
Gladstone, Neil. "Shall we Trance?", Philadelphia Enquirer, (10 December 1998)
Purcell, Greg. "Helen Mirra: Third", Cakewalk, (Fall 1998)
Walker, Hamza. Persona, (Renaissance Society, Chicago/Kunsthalle Basel, 1996)
Scanlan, Joe. Youth Culture Killed my Dog, (Contemporary Arts Council,1995)