Mercedes Helnwein (born 1979) is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She was born in Vienna, Austria.

Biography

Mercedes Helnwein was born in

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. Her father is Austro-Irish artist

Gottfried Helnwein Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media. His work is ...

.Jessica Gelt (April 08, 2004
"Rooms with a view of America's heartland"
''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved 2013-06-05. She and her brothers, Cyril, Ali, and Wolfgang Amadeus, often modeled for their father's work as children, whose works often included nightmarish depictions of war and exploitation. As children, Mercedes and her siblings were given the freedom to express themselves, and she developed a style distinctively hers. She says , "Secrets of suburbia, the surface fakeness, have always been interesting to me" Haramis, Nick (Dec/Jan 2008). “The New Literary Enfant Terrible.” ''Blackbook''. Retrieved 2010-01-04 at http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-new-literary-enfant-terrible/1546#When:17:01:00Z Helnwein creates large-scale drawings, most of which are done with black pencil, colored pencils, or pastels. Helnwein's art debuted in 2003, with her first group exhibition hosted in Downtown Los Angeles by actor

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. Mercedes Helnwein contributed art to the 2006

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album, '' The Information''. In 2010,

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acquired the entire work of Helnwein's "Whistling Past the Graveyard" show in London. In 2004, her travelogue, "Devil Got Religion," covered the 15-day road trip with Alex Prager and

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for their "America Motel" installation. Her debut novel, ''The Potential Hazards of Hester Day'', was released in February 2008 by

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Selected reviews

* ''The Helnwein Siblings' Artful Life in LA'', by Jessica Gelt, ''Los Angeles Times'', Oct 16, 2011 * ''Making Cindy Sherman Proud'', by Rachel Wolff, ''New York Magazine'', July 3, 2007

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* 1979 births Living people Austrian women writers Austrian Scientologists Writers from Vienna Feminist artists Austrian video artists 21st-century Austrian painters 21st-century Austrian women artists {{Austria-writer-stub