Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock was born in 1970 in Staffordshire. Film, photography, print, text, song and performance examine mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability, throughout her practice. Her works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices as she investigates the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages.

She has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent solo shows including Helen Cammock, Kate MacGarry, London (upcoming, 2025); Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles and Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, New Orleans (2023); Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023); They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023); behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022); Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2021); Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019); The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019) and VOID Derry, Northern Ireland (2018).

Recent group shows includeTime for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2025); Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); WINK WINK, Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum, Rossendale, UK (2023); Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London (2022) and Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, London (2021). In 2023 Cammock received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. In 2019 she was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize and in 2017 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cammock’s public art commission On WindTides (2024) launched on The Line, London in May 2024.