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Mary Helena Clark is an artist working with moving image, sound, sculpture, and photography. With a background in experimental cinema, her work frequently combines montage and essay forms to challenge distinctions made between human and animal, artifice and nature, and sense and nonsense. Recent exhibitions include Conveyor at Bridget Donahue, New York (2023); Neighboring Animals at Cushion Works, San Francisco (2023); A Green Shade at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2019); Unboxing: Doublespeak, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2019); A Casual Pincer, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles (2019) and Audible Bacillus, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (2019). Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and the 2025 Okayama Art Summit curated by Philippe Parreno.
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Mary Helena Clark is an artist working with moving image, sound, sculpture, and photography. With a background in experimental cinema, her work frequently combines montage and essay forms to challenge distinctions made between human and animal, artifice and nature, and sense and nonsense. Recent exhibitions include Conveyor at Bridget Donahue, New York (2023); Neighboring Animals at Cushion Works, San Francisco (2023); A Green Shade at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2019); Unboxing: Doublespeak, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2019); A Casual Pincer, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles (2019) and Audible Bacillus, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (2019). Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and the 2025 Okayama Art Summit curated by Philippe Parreno.
