Helen Anna Flanagan (b. Birmingham, UK) is an artist working across video, installation, performance and writing. She looks to investigate social structures and the political subtext of the everyday, focusing on affects and emotions, labor and the body.
A selection of solo exhibitions includes FACT Liverpool, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Ballon Rouge Gallery, GMK Gallery, V2_ Lab for Unstable Media and bb15. Group exhibitions include Museum M, Focal Point Gallery, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Aspex Gallery, Kunsthal Gent, IMAI, Netwerk Aalst, M_HKA, MOMA Odessa, among others. Her films have been presented at festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), Sharjah Film Platform (AE), Lo Schermo Dell’arte Film Festival (IT), Go Short International Film Festival (NL), Proyector Plataforma de Videoarte (SP), B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (DE), November Film Festival (UK), Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), among others.
Flanagan is a laureate from HISK (2019-2021) and a former art resident at ISCP New York, FACT Liverpool, Hospitalfield, IBB Curacao, Izolyatsia, Forum Stadtpark and Metal. Her work has been awarded the IKOB Feminist Art Prize (2019), the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2020) a fellowship with Needcompany (2021), and the second prize of Art Contest Brussels (2021).
Flanagans practice is currently supported by the Stipendium for Established Artists from the Mondriaan Fund. Her projects have been supported by Nederland's Filmfonds, Stimuleringsfonds, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds and CBK Rotterdam.