HELENA HERNMARCK: Shadow and light
Photo credit: Ross Mantle
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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.
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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 1998 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 |