Born in Vienna, Austria, Mercedes Helnwein started writing and drawing
at an early age, developing a deep fascination for both fields. In
2000 she began to divide her time between Los Angeles and Ireland,
exhibiting her art regularly and writing short stories and essays for
literary journals. With influences ranging from Southern Gothic
traditions to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, to nineteenth Century
Russian literature, American motel culture and the Delta blues, her
work began to take on a style of it’s own, both in her fine-art as
well as her writing. She has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions
in New York, Berlin and Dublin, and with her latest show “East of
Eden” at the Merry Karnowsky gallery in Los Angeles. In 2008 Simon
and Schuster published her first novel “The Potential Hazards of
Hester Day”.
mercedeshelnwein.com
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