I am a Mexican artist based in the UK. I work across different media, exploring the religious aspect of femicide families and the nature of clandestine burial sites connected to the soil and the landscape where they search for their daughters. I work as an associate lecturer in the Fine Art Department at Sheffield Hallam University, where I am also doing a practice-based PhD.
My recent art exhibitions include the Ceremonial Ritual Installation, result of my art residency at Sheffield Cathedral (2025); In Search of Ghosts, Fringe Arts Bath at 44AD Artspace, curated by Isabel Young, Senior Researcher at Royal College of Art (2025); My short film Areas of Search in installation at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Sheffield Cathedral, as part of the art strand of the No Bounds Festival (2024). This film was screened at the Asolo Art Film Festival where it won the Best Video Art Film Award (2025). The film won awards from film festivals in Europe and the United States such as the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Cine Paris Film Festival among others. The solo show For Whom the Mountains Pray (2023) at the Head Post Office Hall Gallery, Art and Design Department, Sheffield Hallam University, A Visual Theory of the Soul (2020) at VOMA Art Space, ‘Discoveries’ area, curated by Lee Cavaliere, former curator at TATE, The Soil Where Women Disappear (2021) at the Old Gallery, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, and the participation in the show When Space Becomes the Screen (2021) at S1 Artspace, with the short film The Luminous Mysteries. This film won several Laurels from film festivals in Europe and the United States. The film As Sure as the Rain, which I co-wrote and co-edited, won a Silver Laurel at the International Film Awards in Los Angeles, California. And Presque Lune Editions published my experimental graphic novel Lulu la Sensationelle in France, achieving good reviews in France and the UK.
Book chapters, papers and references about own work
Chapter “The absent body – Helen Blejerman’s Lulu la Sensationelle” (2022) by Professor Véronique Sina, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, in the book Jewish Women in Comics: Borders and Bodies. Eds. Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum and Sarah Lightman. Syracuse University Press.
Article “Unflattening Scholarship with (Auto) Graphic Research” (2022) by Maureen Burdock, University of California, Davis, Journal Alternative Francophone.
Conference paper “Helen Blejerman’s Lulu la Sensationnelle: Representations of Illness and Dis/Ability in Sequential Art” (2019) Keynote speaker Professor Véronique Sina, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, at the Popular Graphic Illness Narratives.
The book Creating Cultural Capital: Cultural Entrepreneurship, in Theory, Pedagogy and Practice (2015). Ed. Eburon Academic Publishers, Netherlands. Series Pioneering Minds Worldwide. http://www.eburon.nl/creating_cultural_capital.
The Inking Woman, Myriad Editions ‘A groundbreaking picture-led celebration of the work of over 100 named British artists’ (2018).
The Context for the Artist (2014) UNESCO Cooperations, in the journal Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, by Professor Dr Elona Lubytė from the Vilnius Art Academy, in Lithuania. Dr Lubyté is the UNESCO Chair for Culture Management and Culture Policy. Issue 72.
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK
Blejerman, H. (2024). The divine in mass graves: Transient Lithospheres above Mexican femicide. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18(2–3), 80–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2023.2348352
Blejerman, H. (2021) Jewish women artists under the nazi regime, Journal Literature and Belief, special edition by Professor Victoria Aarons, English Department, Trinity University, San Antonio Texas.
Blejerman, H. (2020) The island, Route 57 #16, the creative writing journal of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield University.
Blejerman, H. (2020) Tito and the love letters (extract) Route 57 #16, the creative writing journal of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield University.
Blejerman, H. (2019) Does a dog know art can disappear: Surrealism and Subsidence in Mexico City, The Guardian.
Blejerman, H. (2019) Synesthesia, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, anthology ‘Sheffield’, edited by Emma Bolland.
Blejerman, H. (2014) Lulu la sensationnelle, Presque Lune Editions.
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS AND CONFERENCES
Sept 2025 – European Network of Gender and Violence Annual Conference, United Nations Vienna, and Vienna University.
June 2024 – Death and Communities Conference, Centre for Death and Society, Bath University.
June 2024 – Teaching and Learning Conference, Art and Design Department, Sheffield Hallam University.
June 2023 – Teaching and Learning Conference, Art and Design Department, Sheffield Hallam University.
September 2022 – Method Conference, Culture and Creativity Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University.
February 2022 – Transmission series of artists’ talks, Sheffield Hallam University, Department of Fine Art.
October 2021 – Religion and Art Forum, Goldsmiths Fine Art Department.
September 2021 – Beastly Landscapes Conference, Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.
March 2021 – Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield University.
September 2020 – Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
July 2020 – Post-Traumatic Landscapes Conference, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sheffield.
June 2019 – School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Manchester University.
October 2016 – Winchester School of Art.
March 2015 – Paris Book Fair (Salon du Livre de Paris).
January 2015 – Foyles, London.
April 2013 – Tynet 50+, Bastad, Sweden.
April 2013 – University College Cork, Ireland, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
April 2013 – Instituto Cervantes, Dublin.
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