Helen Hawley is an American artist who works in painting, poetry, installation, and video. Her projects explore color and language, time and water.
She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA), where she was a University Fellow. Recent exhibitions include The Field Projects Gallery in NY (2024) and CICA Museum in South Korea (2024). Her experimental hand-drawn animation was an official selection of the Beijing International Short Film Festival (2019) and South London Shorts (2020).
She has had solo shows at The Arts + Lit Lab and The James Watrous Gallery in Madison, WI. Group exhibitions include the Wisconsin Triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; ; and the Flux Factory, NY. Her work has been supported by a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, NY, and artist residencies in the U.S., Germany, and Senegal. She lives in Flagstaff, AZ, and works as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northern Arizona University.
