SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Snapshots", Praise Shadows, Brookline, MA
2010 “Vanitas”, Russell Projects, Richmond, VA
EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2024 "Painting, Smoking, Eating," BEERS London
2023 "Collector's Edition" Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2023. "Intersect Palm Springs," Praise Shadows, Palm Springs, CA
2022 “Coming Home”, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 “Raw Emotion” Gallery Tempo, Jamaica Plain, MA
2021 “Vignettes”, Drive-By, Watertown, MA
2021 “Inside” Cadeau, Brookline, MA
2020 “When the Body” The Beehive, Boston, MA
2020 “Area Code Art Fair” Juried by Octavio Zaya, www.areacodeartfair.com
2020 “The Yellow Wallpaper”, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
2018 “Peace Love and Understanding”, The Beehive, Boston, MA
2018 “So Wild and Blue”, Isenberg Projects, Brookline, MA
2018 “Let’s Talk About the Weather”, Wellesley, MA
2016 “Mass Art Auction”, Boston, MA
2016 “Butts and Beaches”, Jonathan Adler Boutique, Los Angeles, CA
2014 “Figure Studies”, UW-Parkside Foundation Gallery, Kenosha, WI
2014 “When We’re Together”, Miller Yezerski , Boston, MA
2013 “MFA Silent Auction Party”, Boston, MA
2013 “One is Always Forgotten”, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 “Portraits”, Drive-By, Watertown, MA
2012 “Chain Letter”, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2012 RISD Faculty Biennial, Providence, RI
2011 “Big Bangs/Small Bucks III”, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, represented by Russell Projects
2010 “Sky Was Yellow, Sun Was Blue”, Russell Projects, Richmond, VA
NOTABLE COMMISSIONS
2023 Clayton Rose, Presidential Portrait, Bowdoin College
2012 - 2015 Independent Contractor, Kate Spade Saturday
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Bennett Prize Finalist
2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Recipient in Painting
2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Recipient in Painting
2010 The Vermont Studio Center with partial fellowship
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2022 - 2023, Artist, Praise Shadows Gallery
2019 - PRESENT Artist, BK Projects
2011 - PRESENT Artist, 20x200
2014 - 2018 Artist, Jonathan Adler
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2024 "A Portrait that Captures Clayton Rose and His Legacy"
2024 "Bowdoin’s Presidential Portraiture and the Visualization of Legacy"
2024 Conversation with Maggie Smith - On Becoming Visible
2023 "Extra-Ordinary", Boston Home Magazine, Winter 2024
2023 "Intimate moments of Self-Reflection in Seemingly Ordinary Spaces in Helena Wurzel’s Solo Exhibition", Maddie Browning, Boston Globe, 1 March 2023
2022 "Walk and Talk" featured in Create Magazine, Curated by Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK
2020 "Leah" Cover of New American Paintings Featured Artists
2018 I Like your Work Podcast Interview
2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Finalist
2014 "Endless Summer", Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur, CA
2013 "When We're Together", Miller Yezerski Projects, Boston, MA
2013 Walk Up Blog Post
2013 Featured on Kate Spade Saturday Blog: Girls Who Go For It
2012 Video Studio Interview
2012 Ms. Behaved Interview
2012 "Portraits", Drive-By, Watertown, MA
2012 "One is Always Forgotten" Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Cate McQuaid Review, "One is Always Forgotten", Boston Globe
2011 RISD Faculty Biennial
2010 "Vanitas", Russell Projects Richmond, VA
2010 "Vanitas" Review, Richmond Magazine
2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Finalist
2010 New American Paintings, No.92, Northeast Edition
2008 "Women's Lives", MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
EDUCATION
2007 Master of Fine Art in Painting, Boston University
2005 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Brandeis University
2003 Bachelor of Arts, Brown University
TEACHING
2014-2022 Faculty, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
2012-2014 Faculty, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2009-2012 Critic, Painting and Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010-2013 Instructor, Visual Arts Summer Institute, Boston University, Boston, MA
2010-2014 Artist Representative, Gamblin Artist Colors
2010-2014 Artist Representative, Strathmore Paper
2009-2010 Instructor for Summer Studios, Mass Art, Boston, MA
2007-2008 Faculty, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH