Helena Palazzi

Helena Palazzi is a visual multidisciplinary artist based in Kingston, NY. Born in Sweden in 1968, she discovered visual storytelling as a teenager through photography, carrying a secondhand analog camera everywhere she went, and spending countless hours in a garage-turned-darkroom.

In 1993, Helena's path led her to Italy, her father's homeland, where she enrolled at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vanucci , in the region of Umbria and co-founded a photography and art studio alongside a group of talented young creatives. Soon after, she began exhibiting photography, paintings, and mixed-media works, marking the start of her path as an exhibiting artist.

In 1998, Helena relocated to New York City, where she pursued fashion and commercial photography —collaborating with clients and creatives worldwide for over two decades. During the pandemic she shifted her focus back to fine art and established her studio, Art by Helena Palazzi, in Kingston, NY. Today, she continues to exhibit her work in solo and group shows throughout the Hudson Valley, New York State and beyond.

Helena Palazzi’s paintings often balance fluidity with structure, combining translucent washes of color with fine linear marks and subtle textures. Her ...

L’Accademia delle Belle Arti Pietro Vanucci, Perugia, Italy — 1993-1997
(Academy Of Fine Arts Pietro Vanucci, Perugia, Italy)
Painting
Photography

L’Universita` Per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy — 1991-1992
(University for foreigners, Perugia, Italy)
- Italian Language, literature, art-history and history.


Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden — 1989-1993
(University of Lund, Sweden)
- Comparative Literature, Italian Language and Literature, History of Art.

• DRIFTING, solo exhibition, Kingston Social, NY, January 11-March 11 2025
BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK, solo exhibition, Stable and Barn, Woodstock, October 19-November 19 202
THE PHANTOM CITY, Group exhibition, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, August-October, 2024
• THE LIBRARIAN, group exhibition, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, July 2024 NY
• Co director Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY — January 2023 - April 2024
• LAGOM | UNRAVELING, duo multi disciplinary exhibition, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY, November 4 -26, 2023
• Shape of Play, group exhibition mixed media, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston NY—May - July 2023
• Home base, group exhibition mixed media, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston NY—March - May 2023
• Evolution, group exhibition mixed media, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston NY— February-March 2023
• Beforetime, solo mixed media exhibition, Co, Rhinebeck NY — January—May 2023
• A Sense of an Ending, group exhibition, Pinkwater gallery, Kingston, NY, December 2021-
January-2022
• Shield Maiden, solo mixed media exhibition, YWCA, Kingston NY— October- December-2022 New Item
• Men Argue Nature Acts, group exhibition, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY, October- November-2022
• Sisterhood, group exhibition, Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY, July-Au...