sallyhelmi@gmail.com


EDUCATION

2015   Bachelor of Science in Nursing, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ


SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2019   Intimately Held: Safe-keeping Through Touch, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2021   Coping: Transcending Through Creation, Open Call, IAC, Newark, NJ

2020   Heal Thy Self, IAC, Newark, NJ

2019   Brick City Litty, IAC, Newark, NJ


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021   Coming Home, Lackawanna Cafe, Jersey City, NJ

2021   Grow, Fern & Fossil Store, Newark, NJ

2021   Welcome Back to the World, IAC, Newark, NJ

2019   Fern and Fossil x The Nork Project Pop Up, Newark, NJ

2019   Art Factory Studios, Paterson, NJ

2019   Index, NYFA, Newark, NJ

2019   In Praise of Flesh, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ

2018   Newark Open Doors, IAC, Newark, NJ

2018   Something In the Universe, IAC, Newark, NJ

2018   Come As You Are, 10th Annual Art Auction, Gallery Aferro, Newark ,NJ

2016   Venus Fest, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ


RESIDENCIES/ PROGRAMS/ GRANTS

2021 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant, Project For Empty Space

2021 Creative Catalyst Fund Grant, Newark Arts

2021   Dark Study

2021   First Tech Fund (photography mentor), NYC

2019   Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program (mentor) , NYFA, Newark, NJ

2018   Index Art Center, Newark, NJ (current resident 2021)


PRESS/ PANELS/ ARTIST TALKS

2021   Artist Feature and Interview with Nene Aïssatou Diallo, LAND Collective

2020   ‘Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis’, NY Times

2020   'Cabin Fever Artist Talks', Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

2020   ‘Sally Helmi: On the Global Crisis’, Scarlet Magazine

2020   ‘5 Essential Workers on Beauty Routine as Self-Care', Allure