Helena Hsieh is an American artist, born and raised in Long Beach. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.
Hsieh’s paintings examine the quiet of the everyday, identity, and light, using it to depict the specificities of site, architectural forms, and emotion. Her work captures scenes that take the viewer to a mysterious elsewhere- to other places, other times, other moments. The paintings are ambiguous, elusive even, with their veiled subjects captured in the mundane moments that so often pass us by. These moments are not spectacular, but the care Hsieh takes in capturing their transience moves them from the quotidian to the extraordinary, a shift that reminds us that these are the quiet and intimate moments that accumulate to make up a life.
Her solo exhibitions include Helena Hsieh at Atrium 26 Gallery, Los Angeles, and Helena Hsieh: Pacific Northwest at WNDW Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Hsieh has received a number of awards and recognition including an Artist in Residence at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver (2015-2016), Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2015), a Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship from SMFA (2012), a Montague International Travel Grant (2011) and being selected for Boston Young Contemporaries (2010). Her work has been featured in publications such as Fresh Paint Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Art Business News and New American Paintings.