Helen Hawley is a contemporary American artist interested in water ecology and interactions between space and language. Using poetic texts and material experimentation, she reflects on life’s cycles, the passage of time, and our relationship to the big and small spaces we inhabit. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA), where she was a University Fellow. 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; the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN; 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 is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northern Arizona University and lives in Flagstaff, AZ.
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