HELENA HERNMARCK: Shadow and light

Helena Hernmarck is a Swedish-born tapestry artist and weaver best known for her monumental tapestries designed for architectural settings. Her designs derive from sources ranging from photographs, to watercolors, to handwritten letters, and even from the texture of wool itself. She has supported Swedish textile arts throughout her career, collaborating with Swedish spinners, dyers, and weavers on each commission. Hernmarck's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan  Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and other institutions.

Photo credit: Ross Mantle

Click here to watch a video of Helena at work.
Click here to read a May 3, 2020 article in The Shelter Island Reporter about Helena and the exhibit.
Click here to visit Helena Hernmarck's website: www.hernmarck.com

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Awards
2019 Outstanding Achievement Award, American Swedish Historical Museum
2002 Sophie Adlersparres Medal
2000 Swedish American of the Year
1999 Sweden’s Prins Eugen Medal
1998 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Governor’s Arts Award
1996 American Craft Council, College of Fellows
1973 American Institute of Architects Craftsmanship Medal

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2012 American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN
2001 Zornsamlingarna, Mora, Sweden
1999 Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY
1997 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1997 LongHouse Foundation, East Hampton, NY
1990 American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Galleri Österdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
1986 The Public Library, Birmingham, AL
1977 Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark
1974 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY