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Helen leads the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and is an inter/transdisciplinary artist-researcher. Her practice ranges from bold experiments in What Art Knows, to creating, designing, and curating installations, interactions, interventions, exhibitions, and performances.

What Art Has To Offer Immigration has successfully helped new immigrants and refugees become employed full-time in their fields of interest in Canada. What Art Has To Offer Astronomical Thinking is an ongoing collaboration with theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Gurtina Besla and New York-based artist Samita Sinha. What Art Has To Offer ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) is her latest project, which began with a collaboration with medical director Dr. Chaula Mehta.

For over twenty years, Helen has contributed to civic actions and cultural policy thinking at the municipal, provincial, national, and international levels. She is a published researcher, and consults on projects for public and private funders, community organizations, and others. Much of this is institution-adjacent work, which is good or bad depending on how you feel about neighbours.

Previously, Helen was a member of the Culture of Cities Centre, a Salzburg Global Fellow, and a board member for Social Innovation Canada and the Centre for Social Innovation.

Helen is working on a book, represented by Westwood.

More about her art available at helenyung.com.