Helen O’ Leary’s artistic practice emerges from constant reassignment, dismantlement, and frugal readjustment. Rooted in the outward simplicity and inner grenade of memory, her work reckons with damage and multigenerational loss through nurturing, caring, and—ultimately—healing. She has received the American Academy Rome Prize; Hennessy Purchase Award, IMMA, Dublin; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; two Pollock-Krasner awards; and the Joan Mitchell Award for painting and sculpture, among others.