PAGINA INIZIALE --- GALLERIA --- MOSTRE --- COLLEGAMENTI --- ENGLISH Helen Mirra formazione 1996 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 1991 BA, Bennington College, VT 1985/1987 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY mostre personali 2006 Galerie Nelson, Paris, F PIAC, Ragusa 2005 laws of clash, 247, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago 2004 Sudden and creeping violence, Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 45, TX Miscellaneous papers, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D Hewn third, Peter Freeman, New York 2003 65 instants, UC Berkeley Art Museum: Matrix, CA Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, GB 2002 Arrow, DYG Projects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago 48°N, Backdrop (with Gaylen Gerber), Michael Hall Galerie, Vienna, Nicola Sacco, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano, I Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001 Miller's Views, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Art Statements, Art 32 Basel, CH Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society, Chicago 2000 beforsten, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties, Gasser & Grunert, New York 1999 Chicago Project Room, Chicago 1997 Rx (project space), Chicago Chicago Project Room, Chicago 1996 Here but not here, (with Charles Goldman) Gallery 400, Chicago mostre collettive 2005 Odd Lots, White Columns & Queens Museum of Art, New York Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario Canada Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, ND 2004 Material as Metaphor (Beuys, Balka, Kiaer, Manders, Mirra), Tanya Bonakdar, New York Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg, D Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin. organized by Christoph Keller Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 2003 50th Venice Biennale (Italian Pavilion) Paper Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York. travelling Subject Index, The Pond, Chicago Going A Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC There's no land but the land, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D Land, Land (with Rivane Neunschwander and Katya Strunz) Kunsthalle Basel, CH 2002 Art Projects, Art Basel: Miami. curated by James Rondeau Here and now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Zusammenhänge herstellen, Kunstverein Hamburg Sound Canopy, sound installation. supported by Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Public Radio (Cargnelli, Penker and Szely), KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, San Francisco 2001 Tirana Biennial, Albania Fresh, New Museum, New York untitled 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense Contextual, Chicago Cultural Center 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, 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 1998 Trance, Philadelphia Museum of Art Pandemonium, London Electronic Arts, London Video & Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1997 Some Kind of Heaven, Kunsthalle NŸrnberg, D, and South London Gallery, GB Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art 1996 Found Footage, Gasser & Grunert, Cologne, D Persona, The Renaissance Society, Chicago and Kunsthalle Basel, CH film e video Arrow, video projection/sound including subwoofer, 28min., 2002 81°N, 16mm film, color, silent, 11min., 2001 52°N, 16mm film, color, silent, 11min., 1999 Songs 1-9, b&w video, single channel, silent, continuous loops, 1998 Third, b&w video projection with live sound, 45min., 1998 untitled film, color, silent, 1min., 1996 Schlafbau, b&w video projection, sound, 13min, 1996 I, Bear, color video, sound, 6min., 1995 The Ballad of Myra Furrow, b&w video, sound, 5min., 1994 registrazioni with Fred Frith: Quangsi - Quail, 2004 (non ancora rilasciata) with Ernst Karel: Maps of Parallels 41° & 49°N, Qwerty:2005 Field Geometry, explain:2000 Along, Below, Herkimer:1999 Stowaway, Herkimer:1996 libri Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society: 2002. texts by Hamza Walker, Ben Marcus, Jen Bervin Names & Poems, Whitewalls: 1999 Alow, Herkimer: 1999 pubblicazioni excerpt from 'Miscellaneous Papers', Searching for Sebald, ICI Press: Fall 2005 'Postpone', with Ernst Karel, on Sound Writing, 10" vinyl, Woody Sullender: 2004 'Gr', Lucio Pozzi's COLORGAMES, Anderson Gallery, Drake University: 2003 'Stage/Levy', Paper Sculpture, D.A.P.: 2003 'School-year', in Cabinet magazine, issue 9 (winter 2003) 'Monster Baby', on untitled654321 (cd), Jacob Fabricius + Tommy Lund: 2001 'Chapters', Yours Truly, Jacob Fabricius: 2000 collaboration with Gaylen Gerber, Whitewalls #40: Loose Canon, 1999 track 9, with Fred Lonberg-Holm on his recording Site-specific (explain:001) 1999 'I, Bear', Whitewalls #38: Play, 1998 Stowaway, sound installation, Experimental Station, Chicago, 1997 design Parakeet, periodical (2004 - ongoing) No sign, EKG (Sedimental records 2004) My Paris, Gail Scott (Dalkey Archive 2003) Third Factory, Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive 2002) Shift or latch, EKG (Crank Satori 2001) premi e borse di studio 2005 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Artist-in-Residence, Berlin 2004 Alpert Ucross Residency Award 2004 Artist-in-residence, Center for Book Arts, Mills College, Oakland. March 2003 Artist-in-residence, Consortium of the Arts, University of California at Berkeley 2001 Driehaus Individual Artist Award 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award 1997 Macdowell Residency 1996 Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois 1995-6 University Fellowship, University of Illinois recensioni Brian Sholis, 'Helen Mirra', Critics' picks, artforum.com, June 2005 Alan Artner, Art Review, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2005 Ken Johnson, Art Listings, The New York Times, December 31, 2004 Brian Sholis, Untitled Magazine, August 2004 Lori Waxman, 'Helen Mirra', Critics' picks, artforum.com, March 2004 The New Yorker, March 29 2004 David Alm, RES, January/February 2004 Maxine Kopsa, Frieze, '50th Venice Biennale', issue 77 'Helen Mirra', Kunstforum, Bd. 166, Okt 2003 Fred Frith, Paris Transatlantic News, October 2003 Olivia Plender, 'Helen Mirra', Frieze, issue 76/Summer 2003, p 126 Walter Robinson, 'Shapely Venice', artnet, June 13, 2003 Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine, Spring 2003 Sharla Stewart, 'Muse and Medium: Helen Mirra', University of Chicago Magazine, April 2003, p22 Alan Artner, 'Chicagoans of the Year - Helen Mirra: Concepts Fuel Work' Chicago Tribune, Dec. 29, 2002 Lisa Stein, 'Helen Mirra adopts an assertive air' Chicago Tribune, December 20, 2002 section 7 p23 Susan Snodgrass, 'Helen Mirra' Art in America, December 2001, p 124 Kathryn Hixson, 'Helen Mirra' New Art Examiner, November 2001, p 83 Susanna Bolle, 'Tones and Drones in Chicago' XLR8R #54, November 2001, p 26 James Yood, 'Helen Mirra Art Forum, September 2001, p 198 Nancy Princenthal, 'Artist's Book Beat' Art on Paper, September 2001, p 98 Bill Meyer, 'Music Review: Transmissions' Chicago Tribune, August 14, 2001 Karl Erickson, 'Chicago Five' artnet.com, August 18, 2000 Buzz Spector, 'Helen Mirra: Names & Poems' The Octopus, July 2000 Ken Johnson, 'Recommended/Last Chance: Helen Mirra' New York Times, June 2000 'Helen Mirra: Field Geometry' Other Music, June 2000 Karl Erickson, 'On Books: Helen Mirra' New Art Examiner, December/January 1999/2000, p 60 Marc Swartz, 'review: Helen Mirra' Circa88, Summer 1999 Laurie Palmer, 'Helen Mirra' Frieze no.46, May 1999, p 97 Jan Estep, 'Helen Mirra' New Art Examiner, April 1999, p 45 Fred Camper, 'Helen Mirra' Chicago Reader, Feb. 11, 1999, p 32 Greg Purcell, 'Helen Mirra: Third' Cakewalk, Fall 1998 Olga Zdanovics 'review: Color TV' New Art Examiner, April 1997, p 42 Hamza Walker and Diana Thater, Persona catalog (Kunsthalle Basel: 1996) Joe Scanlan, Youth Culture Killed My Dog catalog (Chicago: Contemporary Arts Council) 1995 lavori scelti, interviste Julia Bryan-Wilson, 'Six words about Helen Mirra, or the Six Basic Factors of Camouflage', Formalismus catalog. (Kunstverein Hamburg: 2004) Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, 65 instants brochure, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003 Hamza Walker, Cream 3, Phaidon (London) 2003 Rena Leinberger, 'Interview with Helen Mirra', Bridge, v2 n2 2003, p132 Nina Möntemann, 'Seamannsgarn', Zusammenhänge herstellen catalog. (Kunstverein Hamburg: 2003) Christina Végh, Land, Land catalog, Kunsthalle Basel: 2003 Frances Richard, Declining Interval Lands brochure, Whitney Museum, 2002 Anthony Elms, Here and now catalog (Chicago: Whitewalls) 2002 Ralph Rugoff, Sudden Glory catalog (San Francisco: CCAC) 2002 Hamza Walker, Sky-wreck catalog (Chicago:The Renaissance Society) 2001 Laurie Palmer, Seems catalog, 2001 collezioni pubbliche Art Institute of Chicago Dallas Museum of Art Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne UK Whitney Museum of American Art, New York