Background
She was born in Rochester, New York in 1970, graduated from Bennington College in 1991, and received her Master of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996.
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Helen Mirra
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Education
Bennington College.
Career
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. Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking. She participated in the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
A fifteen-year 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. Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley, with the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin, and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society, May 6–June 24, 2001.
Achievements
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Sky-wreck, Renaissance Society, May 6–June 24, 2001 Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 21 - December 8, 2002 65 Instants, Berkeley Art Museum, November 23, 2003 - January 25, 2004 Hourly Directional with Ernst Karel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Center, February 7 - April 6, 2014 Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 24 - June 6 & September 2-October 17, 2014 Waulked,, Peter Freeman Incorporated., New York, September 11 - October 25, 2014 Helen Mirra, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, August 20 - September 26, 2015.
