# Aly Helyer

URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/aly-helyer/
Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles



## Exhibitions

- [Aly Helyer: Everything is Borrowed](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/aly-helyer-everything-is-borrowed.md): April 6 — May 18, 2024 · Gallery III · Artists: Aly Helyer

## Biography

MA Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2025 "Weight of Love," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium 2024 "Everything is Borrowed," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022 "The Look of Love," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA  "How to Fight Loneliness," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK 2020 "Silent Charmers," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA 2019 "The Forerunners," Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, New Art Projects, London, UK 2017 "Nobody’s Business," Angus-Hughes, London, UK 2014 "Soft Subversions," Herrick Gallery, London, UK

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2023 "Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism," Almine Rech, London, UK  "Group Show: Alec Egan, Aly Helyer, Sylvia Ong," Almine Rech, Paris, France  "The Artist as Beast," Project Space on the Inside, a curated selection of paintings from the collection of Edwin Oostmeijer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  "The Cabin Presents: A Curated Flashback," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX  "Feeling of Light," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium 2022 "A Play of Features," Union Gallery, co curated by Aly Helyer and William Gustaffson, London, UK  "The Power to Dream," Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France 2021 "10," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK  “Holding Hands,” Union Gallery, London, UK 2020 "Melancholympics," The Wunderwall, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Antwerp, Belgium 2019 "What Spirit is This?," Sim Smith Gallery, London, UK 2017 "DUMB," Mercer Chance Gallery, curated by Kris Day London, UK 2016 "The Good,The Bad and The Ugly," Charlie Smith Gallery London, UK  "Endgame," Turps Gallery, London, UK 2015 "Ludic," (Two person show with Joel Tomlin), at Herrick Gallery, London, UK  "Lucy In The Sky," Transition Gallery, London, UK 2013 "SPEAK, CLOWN!," Fold Gallery, curated by Hotel Swirly-Whirly, London, UK  "HARTMANN. HELYER. LYDDON. BONILLA. & BAJT," We sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK  "Unknown Sitter," Lion & Lamb Gallery, curated by Covadonga Valdes, London, UK  "This Me of Mine," APT London, curated by Jane Boyer, London, UK (Traveling exhibition) 2009 "Configuration," curated by Day and Gluckman, London, UK 2002 "The Jerwood Drawing Prize," (Traveling exhibition)

**Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes**

  2022 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles, CA

**Bibliography**

  2024 Nys Dambrot, Shana. "GALLERY ROUNDS: Aly Helyer Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, May 9 ([Link](https://artillerymag.com/gallery-rounds-aly-heyler/)) 2021 Artelove Staff. "Aly Helyer: The Stunning Expressionism Of A Great Brush," Artelove, December 13 2020 Bogojev, Sasha. "Silent Charmers: Aly Helyer @ The Cabin, LA," Juxtapoz Magazine, November 13 2019 Irvin, Rebecca. "Painter Aly Helyer reinterprets traditional portraiture with expressionistic colour," Its Nice That, July 4  Irwin, Rebecca. "Its Nice That," The Forerunners, July 4 ([Link](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/aly-helyer-the-forerunners-art-040719)) 2018 "Interrogating representations of the self," ArtMazeMag, Issue 8, Summer Edition, September 1 ([Link](https://issuu.com/artmazemag/docs/issue_8_)) 2013 Boyer, Jane. "This Me of Mine: Self, Time & Context in the Digital Age," Xlbris, October 25 2012 Boyer, Jane. "ANCHORS OF OBSERVATION," This Me Of Mine, March 7

**Awards, Residencies, and Grants**

  2012 Exeter Contemporary Audience Choice Award