Hendl Helen Mirra (born in 1970, Rochester) lives and works in Muir Beach near San Francisco.
She has exhibited extensively throughout the last decades including solo shows at Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne (Rochechouart, 2022); BAMPFA (Berkeley, 2019); NHMX (Mexico City, 2018); Kunst Meran (Italy, 2017); Aspen Art Museum (Colorado, 2015); Culturgest (Lisbon, 2014); Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, 2012/2009); Gebert Stiftung für Kultur (Rapperswil, 2007); Dallas Museum of Art (2004) and Whitney Museum of American Art (2002).

Moreover, the artist has participated in group shows at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art (Sao Paulo, 2018), La Criée centre d’art contemporain (Rennes, 2016); Centre de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid, 2013); Nasjonalmuseet Oslo (2012); Kunsthaus Graz (2011); Bonniers Kunsthal (Stockholm, 2009); Inova (Milwaukee, 2007); Kunstverein Hamburg (2002) and Philadelphia Museum of Art (1998), among many more. Her works were also part of Biennales at Yinchuan (2018); Havana (2015); Cuenca (Ecuador, 2014); Rennes (2012), São Paolo (2012) and Venice (2003).

Hendl Helen Mirra has been invited to residencies and studio programs at IASPIS (Stockholm), Stiftung Laurenz Haus (Basel), Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo), DAAD (Berlin), Center for Book Arts (Mills College, Oakland), Consortium of the Arts (University of California, Berkeley), MacDowell (Peterborough, UK) and at the University of Illinois. She has also been awarded the Artadia grant (New York), the Driehaus Individual Artist Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Jessica Holt Award. Her work is represented in private and public collections, for example at Museum Haus Konstruktiv (Zurich), Bonner Kunstverein and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin).