About the Artist

Catherine Hellsten’s work explores the perspectives of memory and connection through photographic imagery. Hellsten is currently expanding on her most recent body of work, Mnemonic Waters, and her collaborative work, Here & There, with glass artist Jon Rees. She has exhibited work nationally at places such as the A/NT Gallery in Seattle, Washington and Gallery r in Rochester, New York as well as internationally at Koc University in Istanbul and Pingyao China. Her work has been published in FotoVideo Digital Photography China, GASnews and is in the collection of the Ege University Paper and Book Art Museum in Izmir, Turkey. 

When not making art, Hellsten works in the marketing field, builds her glass art business, Glass Lantern Studios, with partner Jon Rees, and is an adjunct professor of photography for Ball State University. She resides in Portland, Oregon.

Select Exhibitions / Publications

Here and There. Collaborative Solo Exhibition with Jon Rees, Muncie Makers Space Gallery, Muncie, Indiana

Photowork 2018. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York

Workhouse Glass National 2017. Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, Virginia

Here and There. Collaborative Solo Exhibition with Jon Rees, West Texas A&M University Experimental Gallery, Amarillo Texas 

American Made Show. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Niche Awards Finalist

Abstractions in Glass. Two-Person Exhibition, The Art League of Ocean City, Ocean City, Maryland

American Craft Today: Glass. The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highland, North Carolina

2014 Pingyao International Photography Festival. Pingyao, China

Light and Memory. A/NT Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Unexpected Imagery. Gallery r, Rochester, New York

“Mnemonic Waters (translated),” by Siwen Yan. FotoVideo Digital Photography China, September 6, 2016

“Collecting Images: Wet Plate Collodion Photography,” GASnews, Winter 2015, Volume 26, Issue 4, p. 8-9. 

Gathering Clouds Magazine, Issue 5, August 2013, p.28-31