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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

2018   Boston Voyager 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

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