Amy Van Helden

I am an American artist and visual arts teacher. I dedicated 17 years to teaching visual art at two international schools in Argentina and China, and one private school in the US. I obtained a BFA degree with a concentration in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan. I had my first individual art show in 1991 at the Luigi Marrozzini Gallery in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, where I lived for 11 years before moving to Argentina in 1997. I have had numerous individual art shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and have participated in many collective exhibitions and art fairs. My artwork is found in private collections in the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. I define my work as chromatic geometry, a trajectory I have followed relentlessly since 1991.

I was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation grant for the year 2013. I received the 2012 Arte Espacio prize in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Artistic statement:


My visual language is within the realm of geometric abstraction, expressly chromatic geometry. I find this to be the perfect milieu in which I can work with simple forms, without distractions, and in which I can experiment with the pictorial elements that inspire m...

B.F.A. summa cum laude, University of Michigan
Stained Glass workshop of Sabina Becu, Argentina

Solo Exhibitions:
2018 Puertas Abiertas del Bajo de San Isidro, Argentina
2017 Puertas Abiertas del Bajo de San Isidro, Argentina
2013 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2013, San Isidro, Argentina
2012 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2012, San Isidro, Argentina
2011 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2011, San Isidro, Argentina
2003 Recent Paintings: Arguibel Art Space, Las Cañitas, city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Color: Secuencias y Elocuencias, van Riel Gallery, city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991 Works on Paper, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group exhibitions:
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Yacht Club, Puerto Madero, city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Rosario Chamber of Commerce, Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Galas del Rio Art Festival, La Paz, Entre Rios province, Argentina
2014 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2014, San Isidro, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Mulazzi Museum, Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina
2013 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Four Artists of Dutch Descent, Milo Lockett Gallery, city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Group Exhibition, Boutique del Libro, San Isidro, Argentina
2010 Small Format ...