Hendl Helen Mirra

Born in 1970, Rochester, New YorkLives and works in Cambridge, US

EDUCATION
1996 MFA, Studio Art, University of Illinois at Chicago
1991 BA, Studio Art and Contemporary Art History, Bennington College, Vermont

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023
Echolalia, Peter Freeman, New York
small mirror, Large Glass, London

2022
Mmontessorri, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City
Musée d'art contemporain de la haute-vienne (Chateau de Rochechouart), Rochechouart

2020
la malplena ĉambro estas bela, Large Glass, London
ielarka aktivec’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Acts for placing woolen and linen, Cample Line, Thornhill
HELEN MIRRA / JOHN DILG, The National Exemplar, Iowa

2019
No Horizon: Helen Mirra – Sean Thackrey, Berkeley Museum of Art, California
ein freundlicher Nein / a friendly No., Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

2018Bones are spaces, Peter Freeman, Inc., New YorkA Coin in Nine Hands – Part 7: Standard Incomparable, Helen Mirra (Stripes), Large Glass, London*, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

2017
A Coin in Nine Hands – Part 3: Helen Mirra, Sol LeWitt (Maps), Large Glass, London
Voluntary Weathering, Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam
INCIDENT No.100: International Ranger Station, Incident Report, Hudson NY
Gehen, weben / Camminare, tessere, Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, Italy
Variable Weather, Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam

2016
fieno fieno fieno, with Allyson Strafella, Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Traversing, with Ellen Lesperance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
Suchness, with Alllyson Strafella, Large Glass, London
Helen Mirra, Allyson Strafella, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2015
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Helen Mirra, Anne Callahan – five colors, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe

2014
Waulked, Peter Freeman, New York
Habitat de Transição (Edge Habitat), Culturgest, Lisbon
Hourly Directional, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hourly Directional: Helen Mirra & Ernst Karel, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2013
Raffaella Cortese, Milan2012
Hourly directional field notation, Bretagne, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
gehend (Field Recordings 1-3), Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

2011
Field Notation, Peter Freeman, New Yorkgehend (Field Recordings 1-3), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Bonner Kunstverein, BonnField Index 3, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Swiss mountain transport systems, 8-channel version with percussion (with Ernst Karel) Diapason, New York2009
Conscience de pierre, Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris
33 Bergwanderwege, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin
Case study: Swiss bird houses, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto

2008
Helen Mirra & Alison Knowles, Unimedia Modern and Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa
Helen Mirra, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
Quarry, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

2007
Grotesk Gegend, Alte Fabrik (Gebert Stiftung für Kultur), Rapperswil
Waldau, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

2006
Break camp, Peter Freeman, New York
Cloud, the, 3, DAAD Galerie, Berlinwith Silvia Bächli, Galerie Nelson, Paris

2005
PIAC (Piattaforma internazionale arte contemporanea), Ragusa
Laws of clash, 247, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

2004
Sudden and creeping violence, Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 45, Dallas

Miscellaneous papers, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Hewn third, Peter Freeman, New York2003
65 instants, Matrix: UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

2002
Arrow, DYG Projects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
48˚N, Backdrop, with Gaylen Gerber, Michael Hall Galerie, Vienna
Nicola Sacco, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Helen Mirra: Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York2001
Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2000
beforsten, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Latitude Lines and Railroad Ties, Gasser & Grunert, New York1999
Chicago Project Room, Chicago
1997
Chicago Project Room, Chicago

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
RHE: Jan Dibbets, Helen Mirra, Fiona Tan, Richard Wentworth, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York

2019

Concerning superfluities, Essex Street, New York
Marcelle Alix ouverte, Marcelle Alix, Paris
Come Together, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
Survived!: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Helen Mirra, Hayley Tompkins, Modern Art Vyner Street, London
A Day’s Work, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest

2018
In the Labyrinth, Large Glass, London
DPAM Collects: Happy Line Trees and other Recent Acquisitions, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
a body measured against the earth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Der erweiterte Blick / The extended view, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen
Matriz do Tempo Real curated by Jacopo Visconti, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo
A Simple Fraction, Doyers, New York2017
2057, Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
We Are Here, MCA Chicago
Für die Ewigkeit, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle
Incident Report: Reports, September, Hudson NY
To chance, to wander, Fjord, Philadelphia
Listen Here: the Art of Sound, Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London

2016
I Went to the Woods: The artist as wanderer, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Ballistic Poetry, La Verrière-Hermès Foundation, Brussels
Accueille-moi paysage (Welcome me, landscape), Marcelle Alix, Paris
Narrativas monumentales, curated by Alvaro Negro, MAC Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art, CorunaESl’épais Rèel, la Criée centre d’art contemprain, Rennes
The Secret and Abiding Politics of Stones, Casa del Lago, Mexico City

2015
Narrativas monumentales:figuras, paisajes y rituales (Monumental Narratives: Figures, Landscapes and Rituals),
MAC Gas Natural Fenosa Museum, Coruña
L’Épais Réel (Into The Real), La Criée Centre d’art Contemporain, Rennes
Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915 – 2015, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
tout le monde, Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Ordering Nature, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Under Construction, Páramo, Guadalajara
Second Chances, Aspen art Museum, Colorado
Montañas con una Esquina Rota (Mountains with a Broken Corner), Havana Biennial, Havana
Walking Sculpture 1967-2015, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Scientific Gardening, ERES STIFTUNG, Munich
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Menil Collection, Houston
Gathered Fates, curated by Ignasi Aballi, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2014
Falso movimento (Wrong Move), Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
Indeterminacy, Large Glass, London
SOME/THINGS, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Half-smiler, in the context of Artadia's 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Longhouse Projects, New YorkThe 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca

2013
A drawing that illustrates my last show at Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Dust Breeding, Churner and Churner, New York
Tehachapi (curated by Laura Fried), Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
Throw a Rock and See What Happens, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
SIN MOTIVO APARENTE (FOR NO APPARENT REASON), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid
OLTREMARE, Vistamare, Pescara
L'IMAGE PAPILLON, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City
Patricia Dauder, Guillaume Leblon, Helen Mirra, Christoph Weber: Map, Record, Picture, Sculpture, PROJECTESD,
Barcelona

Paint it Black, frac île-de-france, le plateau, Paris

2012
In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Postscript, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (toured to The Power Plant, Toronto, 2012-2013 and Eli and Edythe
Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Michigan, 2014)
Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, Rennes
30th Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo
Treffpunkt: Berlin, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
There was a country where they were all thieves, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Unfinished Journeys, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Osloformes brèves, autres, 25, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine (FRAC Lorraine), Metz

2011
Post, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank
Belvedere: Warum ist Landschaft Schön?, Arp Museum, Remagen
Science & Fiction, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery, London
Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World), curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow and Peter Pakesch, Kunsthaus Graz,
Graz
Arte Essenziale (Essential Art), curated by Federico Ferrari, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
Five Easy Pieces, Franco Noero, Torino

2010
Die Natur ruft! (with Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Jimmie Durham, Douglas Gordon, Christine & Irene
Hohenbüchler, Bethan Huws, Mario Merz), Daadgalerie, Berlin
Habiter poétiquement le monde (The World as Poem), curated by François Piron, LaM - Lille Métropole Musee, Lille

2009
Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild (Beyond the Picturesque – New Perspectives), Marta Herford,
Herford(Z)ART, curated by Jan Hoet, Abtart, Stuttgart
Chapter Four: Word Wraps, About Change Collection, BerlinLe jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent (The Garden of Forking Path), Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse
Livsformer/Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Reduced Visibility, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Fragile, Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez
The Quick and the Dead, curated by Peter Eleey, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Le Travail de riviere, le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine
How To Work Better, curated by Christiane Rekade, Büro im Atelier, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena

2008
Political/Minimal, KW Instititure for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Observing beast, time, evolution, Kunst und Naturwissenschaft, Kunstverein Hildesheim and the Roemer- undPelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim
Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland (Vertrautes Terrain - Contemporary Art in/about Germany),
ZKM, Karlsruhe
Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, Museo ARCOS, Benevento

2007
Drawing a Tiger, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Marta schweigt (MARTa is silent), MARTa Herford, Herford
No Context (Gardar Eide Einarsson, Sean Landers, Darren Bader, Helen Mirra, Hiroshi Teshigawara), Taka Ishii
Gallery, Tokyo
Art & Language, Stephanie Brooks, Helen Mirra, and Ian Wilson, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Dump, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Place of the Transcommon, Inova (Institute for Visual Art), Milwaukee

2006
Planting the tele, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Into a Journey, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Sonambiente, festival für hören und sehen, Berlin
Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York2005

The Plain of Heaven, curated by Peter Eleey, Creative Time, the High Line, New York
Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates”, White Columns, New YorkSet (Helen Mirra, Lisa Lapinski, Yuki Kimura), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam

2004
Material as Metaphor (Beuys, Balka, Kiaer, Manders, Mirra), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

2003
Delays and Revolutions, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Paper Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York (toured to eleven venues in the USA through 2005)
Subject Index, The Pond, Chicago
Going A Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
There’s no land but the land, Meyer Riegger Galerie, KarlsruheLand, Land (with Rivane Neunschwander and Katya Strunz), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

2002
Art Projects, Art Basel Miami (curated by James Rondeau), Miami
Here and now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Zusammenhänge herstellen, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Sound Canopy, sound installation, supported by Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Public Radio (Cargnelli, Penker and Szely), KIBLA, Maribor
Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, San Francisco

2001
Tirana Biennial 1, Triana
Fresh, New Museum, New York
untitled 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense
Contextual, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Making the Making, Apex Art, New York
Seems, Block Museum, Chicago

2000
Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 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, Philadelphia
Pandemonium, London Electronic Arts, London
Video & Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1997
Some Kind of Heaven, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg; South London Gallery, London
Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

1996
Found Footage, Gasser & Grunert, Cologne
Persona, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

PUBLIC PROJECTS
2011 Farbenweg, indirekter, Universalmuseum, Graz2010 GSA Art in Architecture U.S. Border Station Project, Warroad
2006 Instance the Determination, public project, University of Chicago, Chicago

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2011 IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Sweden), Stockholm
2008-09 Stiftung Laurenz Haus residency, Basel2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
2007 International Studio Program, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2005-06 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Kunstlerprogramm, Berlin
2004 Alpert Ucross Residency Award
2004 Artist in Residence, Center for Book Arts, Mills College, Oakland
2003 Artist in Residence, Consortium of the Arts, University of California at Berkeley
2001 Driehaus Individual Artist Award
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1998 Macdowell residency
1996 Jessica Holt Award, University of Illinois
1995-96 University Fellowship, University of Illinois

BOOKS
Edge Habitat Materials, Chicago: Whitewalls, 2014
gehend (Field Recordings 1-3), with texts by Peter Eleey, Yukio Lippit, Christina Vegh, Berlin: argobooks, 2013
Cloud, the, 3, afterword by Lyn Hejinian. Zürich: Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier, 2007
Helen Mirra im Grunewald, essay by Friedrich Meschede. Berlin: DAAD, 2006
Sky-wreck, texts by Hamza Walker, Ben Marcus, Jen Bervin. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 2002
Names & Poems. Chicago: Whitewalls, 1999
Alow. Chicago: Herkimer, 1999

RECORDINGS
Durchschriften, Merve, Berlin, 2015
Kwangsi-Quail. Lisbon: Shhhpuma, 2015
Maps of Parallels 41°N and 49°N, at a scale of ten seconds to one degree. Lisbon: Shhhpuma, 2014
Hourly directional sound recordings, Mata Atlantica, Brazil, 2013
Hourly directional sound recordings, Arizonan Sonoran Desert, 2012
Field Geometry. Chicago: Explain, 2000
Along, Below. Chicago: Herkimer, 1999

Stowaway. Chicago: Herkimer, 1996

CONTRIBUTIONS‘Walking commas’, Walking Sculpture 1967-2015, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015
‘Bolete contains all pinecones bolete painted suillus’, Exact Change no.11, 2014
pages for The Legacy of Hilma af Klint: Nine Contemporary Responses, Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2013
‘Groups differentiating delicate hallucinogenic universal should’, Science & Fiction, Zurich: Edition Fink, 2011
‘Instance the determination’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35 No. 4 Summer 2009
‘Groups differentiating delicate hallucinogenic universal should’, Science & Fiction, Zurich: Edition Fink, 2008
‘Instance the determination’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35 No. 4 Summer 2009‘Are places privately wild nothing before’, Kurator 2007/2008, Zurich: Edition Fink, 2008
‘Index for der Räuber’, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 29, 2008
‘Per Kirsten Pieroth’, Maps and Legends, Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2007
‘Traveller’s Code Book’, Black Friday, Frankfurt: Revolver, 2006
‘Schoolyear’, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 9, 2006
‘Gr’, for COLORGAMES, a project by Lucio Pozzi, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, 2002
Collaboration with Gaylen Gerber, Whitewalls, Vol. 40, Spring 1998
‘I, Bear’, Whitewalls, Vol. 38, 1996

SELECTED ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
Marja Bloem, ‘Helen Mirra’, Andriesse Eyck Galerie, September 2017
Barbara Casavecchia, ‘Gianni Pettena & Helen Mirra’, Frieze, 2017
Sharon Mizota, ‘Review: For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art’, Los Angeles
Times, June 27, 2016
Cherry Smyth, ‘Helen Mirra nad Allyson Strafella: Suchness’, Art Monthly, June 2016
Media Farzin, Helen Mirra: Waulked, art agenda, October, 2014
Yukio Lippit, Ambulations, gehend, argobooks, 2013
Peter Elley and Helen Mirra, dialogue, april – june 2011, gehend, argobooks, 2013
Susanna Davies-Crook, ‘Interview with Helen Mirra’, Exberliner, 24 January 2012
Katrin Wittneven, ‘Die Spuren der Stadt’, Der Tagesspiegel, 21 December 2011, p.20

Irmgard Berner, ‘Gehen als eine Form des Denkens’, Berliner Zeitung, 20 December 2011
‘Helen Mirra’, The New Yorker, 7 November 2011, p.14
Roberta Smith, ‘Art Listings: Helen Mirra’, New York Times, 3 November 2011
Kornelia Bittmann and Claudia Cosmo, ‘Helen Mirra in Bonner Kunstverein’, WDR 3 Mosaik, 20 September 2011
Raimar Stange, ‘Helen Mirra / Meyer Riegger’, Vonhundert, 089/100, June 2009, p.40
Ronald Jones, ‘Helen Mirra: Galerie Nordenhake’, Art Forum, Summer 2008, p.458
Dan Visel, ‘Thinking about Indexing’, if: book (blog of The Institute for the Future of the Book), 16 August 2007
‘Goings on about town: Art & Language, Stephanie Brooks, Helen Mirra, Ian Wilson’, The New Yorker, 25 June 2007
Michael Hübl, ‘Helen Mirra: Feinfühligkeit der Präzision’, Badische Neuste Nachrichten, 9 March 2007
Luca Cerizza, ‘Looking back: Solo shows’, Frieze, issue 104, January-February 2007
Deborah Wilk, ‘Helen Mirra’, Time Out New York, issue 589, 11-17 January 2007
Brian Sholis, ‘Helen Mirra’, Artforum, January 2007, p.252-3‘Goings on about town: Helen Mirra’, The New Yorker, 15 January 2007, p.13
Roberta Smith, ‘Art in Review; Helen Mirra’, New York Times, 22 December 2006
Peter Eleey, ‘Helen Mirra: Reference Material’, Frieze, November 2006, p.146-9
Tom Morton, ‘Tropical Abstraction’, Frieze, January 2006, p.147
Peter Eleey, ‘Odd Lots’, Frieze, January 2006
James Yood, ‘Helen Mirra’, Tema Celeste, December 2005, p.78
Amalia Spataro, ‘La sfida del Piac…ere’, La Cittá Magazine, 22 October 2005, p.22
Madeline Nusser, Time Out Chicago, 23-30 June 2005, p.54
Fred Camper, ‘Rethinking thought: Helen Mirra’, The Chicago Reader, 8 July 2005, section 2, p.19
Brian Sholis, ‘Helen Mirra’, Critics’ picks, artforum.com, June 2005
Alan Artner, ‘Art Review: Helen Mirra’, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2005
Ken Johnson, ‘Art Listings: Material is Metaphor, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’, New York Times, 31 December 2004
Brian Sholis, Untitled Magazine, August 2004
Lori Waxman, ‘Helen Mirra’, Critics’ picks, artforum.com, March 2004
‘Goings on about town: Helen Mirra’, The New Yorker, 29 March 2004
David Alm, RES, January/February 2004
Julia Bryan-Wilson, ‘Six words about Helen Mirra, or the Six Basic Factors of Camouflage’, Formalismus catalog.
Kunstverein Hamburg, 2004
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobsen, 65 instants brochure. Berkeley Art Museum, 2003
Hamza Walker, ‘Helen Mirra’, Cream 3. Phaidon, 2003
Rena Leinberger, ‘Interview with Helen Mirra’, Bridge, 2003

Nina Möntemann, ‘Seamannsgarn’, Zusammenhänge herstellen catalog. Kunstverein Hamburg, 2003
Sharla Stewart, ‘Muse and Medium: Helen Mirra’, University of Chicago Magazine, April 2003, p.22
Christina Végh, Land, Land catalog. Kunsthalle Basel, 2003
Maxine Kopsa, Frieze, ‘50th Venice Biennale’, issue 77‘Helen Mirra’, Kunstforum, Bd. 166, October 2003
Fred Frith, Paris Transatlantic News, October 2003
Olivia Plender, ‘Helen Mirra’, Frieze, issue 76/Summer 2003, p.126
Michael Kimmelman, ‘Critic’s Notebook; Cramming it all in at the Venice Biennale’, New York Times, 26 June 2003
Walter Robinson, ‘Shapely Venice’, artnet, 13 June 2003
Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine, Spring 2003
Alan Artner, ‘Chicagoans of the Year - Helen Mirra: Concepts Fuel Work’ Chicago Tribune, 29 December 2002
Lisa Stein, ‘Helen Mirra adopts an assertive air’ Chicago Tribune, 20 December 2002 section 7, p.23
Michael Kimmelman, ‘Art in Review; Helen Mirra’, New York Times, 27 September 2002
Frances Richard, ‘Declining Interval Lands’ brochure, Whitney Museum, 2002
Anthony Elms, Here and now catalog. Whitewalls, 2002
Ralph Rugoff, Sudden Glory catalog. CCAC, 2002
Hamza Walker, Sky-wreck catalog. The Renaissance Society, 2001
Laurie Palmer, Seems booklet, 2001
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’ ArtForum, September 2001, p.198
Nancy Princenthal, ‘Artist’s Book Beat’ Art on Paper, September 2001, p.98
Bill Meyer, ‘Music Review: Transmissions’ Chicago Tribune, 14 August 2001
Karl Erickson, ‘Chicago Five’ artnet.com, 18 August 2000
Buzz Spector, ‘Helen Mirra: Names & Poems’ The Octopus, July 2000
‘Artist Book Reviews’ Umbrella v.23 no.1, April 2000, p.19
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, 11 February 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. Contemporary Arts Council, 1995