On leave 2008-09.

Mountain building event, 2007, 8 x 25 x 27 cm, cotton (trousers), amphibolite rock with Rhizocarpon geographicum agg. and Lecidea sp. Lichens

Mirra’s work occurs in varied scrap media. One-person exhibitions have taken place at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; DAAD Galerie, Berlin; the Dallas Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum (MATRIX); the Whitney Museum of American Art (Contemporary Series); the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Galerie Nelson, Paris; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago; Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe; Peter Freeman, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, among others. Mirra has participated in various group exhibitions, including at the National Museum, Oslo; MARTa Herford, Germany; White Columns, New York; Kunstverein Hamburg; the 50th Venice Biennale; Kunsthalle Basel; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Apex Art, New York; and Sonambiente, Berlin, etcetera. Her architecturally embedded project, Instance the Determination, which indexes works by John Dewey and Jane Addams, is installed through 2009 at the University of Chicago. Music recordings: Stowaway (Herkimer, 1996); Along, Below (Herkimer, 1998); Field Geometry (explain:, 2000); Maps of Parallels 41°N and 49°N (with Ernst Karel, forth-coming); Miscellaneous Papers (with Fred Frith, forth-coming). Books: Alow (Gasser Grunert, 1999); Names & Poems (Whitewalls, 1999); Skywreck (The Renaissance Society, 2002); Helen Mirra im Grunewald (DAAD, 2006); Cloud, the, 3 (Christoph Keller Editions, 2007). Mirra completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, and has received awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue. She has been a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, as well as the Office of Contemporary Art Norway, and will be in residence at Stiftung Laurenz-Haus in Basel, Switzerland, in 2008–09.

Helen Mirra website