Helen Cammock lives and works in North Wales and London. Her interdisciplinary practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance, and engages with historical and contemporary narratives around Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability. Moving fluidly across time and geography, her works often layer multiple voices and perspectives to explore the cyclical nature of history through poetic, visual and aural assemblage. She was awarded the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2017 and was a joint recipient of the Turner Prize in 2019.
Recent solo shows include: Pelicans Dive at Half Light, Kate MacGarry, London, UK (2025), Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023), Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, and UNO Gallery, New Orleans 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 Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021), They Call It Idlewild, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK (2020), Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019), Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018).
Recent group shows include Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, London (2025), Post-Print Triennial, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China (2025), The Sleepers, The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge (2025), Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 - 2025, The ICA, London, UK (2025), Time for Women! 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2025), Inequalities, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy (2025), Soft Impressions, Dundee Contemporary Art (2024), Conversations, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024), Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022) and Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2022). She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.