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Helen Mirra was born in Rochester (New York) in 1970 and lives and works at Muir Beach in California. Since the mid-1990s, she has built up a body of poetic works that combine elements related to landscape, mathematics and language.
Running through them is a strong vein of Buddhist philosophy as well as the influence of writers such as Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein and American John Dewey, best known for advocating experience-led education.
Her work has been shown in many exhibitions around the world, for example at the Chicago Renaissance Society (2001), New York’s Whitney Museum (2002), KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – Bonner Kunstverein – Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2011), Culturgest in Lisbonne (2014) and recently at the Museo de Arte Zapopan in Mexico (2020).
Her work was also exhibited at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), 30th São Paulo Biennale (2012) and 12th Havanna Biennale (2015). In 2020 Helen Mirra was the recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship.