Helen Hawley is a visual artist whose projects begin with a question and find form through material poetry and language play. Her interdisciplinary practice is shaped by a tension between order and accident and moves across painting, text, installation, and time-based media.
She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was a University Fellow.
Recent exhibitions include Field Projects Gallery (New York, 2024) and the CICA Museum (South Korea, 2024), with solo shows at Arts + Literature Laboratory and James Watrous Gallery (Madison, WI) and group exhibitions at the Wisconsin Triennial (Madison, WI) and Flux Factory (New York). Her experimental hand-drawn animation has been screened internationally, including at the Beijing International Short Film Festival (2019).
Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (New York), and residencies in the U.S., Germany, and Senegal. Her poems have appeared in Stanchion Zine, Oakland Review, and La Piccioletta Barca.
She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches in the School of Art + Design at Northern Arizona University.
