HELEN MIRRA
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

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

By way of concrete poetry, shipping pallets, and playing the drums, walking has become the central tenet of Mirra's practice. Field Recordings 1-3 will be at Bonner Kunstverein, Kunstwerke Berlin, and Haus Konstruktiv Zürich in 2011-12, with a book published on this occasion by Distanz Verlag. Other 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; Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto; Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin; and Peter Freeman, New York, among others. Mirra's participation in various group exhibitions includes those at the National Museum, Oslo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunstverein Hamburg; the 50th Venice Biennale; Kunsthalle Basel; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunstmuseum Solothurn; and Sonambiente, Berlin. Her architecturally embedded project Farbenweg, indirekter, which indexes Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour, is installed in the various houses of the Universalmuseum in Graz Austria, and Instance the Determination, which indexes works by John Dewey and Jane Addams, at the University of Chicago. Mirra has received awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue, and has been a guest of Iaspis (Stockholm), the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus (Basel), Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley, and the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

Helen Mirra website