Christie Helm

Christie Helm was born in Dallas in 1967, and grew up loving art, design, and gardens, encouraged by her mother and grandmother, both of whom were artists. Helm went on to study art at the University of Colorado, receiving her BFA in 1990. After college, she moved to New York, where she made accessories working for Victor Costa, and paintings in loft in Soho. After a year Helm moved back to Dallas, established a studio in Oak Cliff, where she both painted and made hats which were sold nationally. She started showing paintings with imagery of faces, doors, and windows. These works were dark in both mood and tonality, and highly textural.
During the 1990s, Helm married, had three children, and moved a number of times including to Lubbock, TX, Memphis, and back to Dallas. In that period, she started an interior design business. In 2006, Helm moved with her family to Chicago and there worked on a number of series of paintings. She created a group of works based on The Book of Revelations, featuring both figures and symbols. Helm’s paintings included landscape inspired paintings with thick pigment. These paintings were precursors to the series Trees. These paintings feature vertical lines of color with bulging nodes containing centers...

University of Colorado, Boulder, BFA
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Bolt Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago
Bridge Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

2022
4 Rivers Biennial, Aspen Chapel, Aspen, CO

2021
Sedona Open Studios, Sedona, AZ
Good Angel, Bad Angel, Jerome, AZ

2020
Dab Art, Art in the Time of Corona
Continuous Span, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Art in Place, CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL and Jerome, AZ
Postcards for Positivity, Artrinity, Dallas, TX


2019
Brilliance, Group Show, NYA Gallery, New York, NY

2018
Pop-Up Gallery at Sweet William
Hinsdale, IL
Solo Show
a portion of proceeds benefitting the Hinsdale Auxiliary of Children's Home and Aid

2018
"The Other Art Fair"
Saatchi Art
Mana Contemporary
Chicago, IL

2017
"The Minimalist Landscape"
Solo Show
Focus Gallery One
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Fort Worth, TX

2016
"Un Seul Grain de Riz"
Group Show
Galerie Metanoia
Paris, France

2015
"You Lookin' At Me?"
Group Show
ARC Gallery, Chicago

MARCH 2015
ArtSlant Showcase 1 winner

2014
HeARTbeat: The Pulse of Art & Life, ArtPrize, Cathedral Square, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2013
Finalist New Mexico Public Art Purchase

2012
Straight Lines, Escola Graduada, Sao Paulo, Brazil
F*ck Em, Group Show at FM Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011
Time Signatures, Group Show curated by Steven L. Brid...