• Installation view of Johanna Helmuth's One Thing After Another
  • Installation view of Johanna Helmuth's One Thing After Another
  • Installation view of Johanna Helmuth, The Tough, 2020, oil on canvas, 198 x 244 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, The Optimist, 2020, oil on canvas, 198 x 305 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, The Tough, 2020, oil on canvas, 198 x 244 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, The Empathetic, 2020, oil on canvas, 183 x 183 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, The Anteambulo, 2020, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, How We Met, 2019, oil on canvas, 183 x 152 cm/ 6 x 5 ft
  • Johanna Helmuth, Thorough Cleaning, 2019, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm / 5 x 4 ft
  • Johanna Helmuth, Piñata, 2019, oil on canvas, 183 x 152 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, With the flower boys , 2022, Oil on canvas, 182.88 x 243.84 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, When he is abundantly happy, 2022, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm
  • Johanna Helmuth, A portrait of my mother with her best friend in Santa Rosa, 2022, oil on canvas, 182.88 x 121.92 cm

Johanna Helmuth

Johanna Helmuth (b. 1992, Philippines) is known for her highly-textured figurative paintings, based on personal experiences and narratives, which confront human behaviour, relationships and societal pressures. Vigorously worked using a palette knife, the paint’s scratched, scraped and damaged appearance becomes a shorthand for the corrosiveness and violence of the human condition in Helmuth’s darkly humorous and gestural works.

Helmuth received the 2018 Fernando Zobel Prize for the Visual Arts, Ateneo Art Awards, one of the top awards in the Philippines for young artists. She is also a three-time semi-finalist of the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Award (MADE). She has exhibited extensively in group shows in Manila, Philippines; Taipei, Taiwan; Milan, Italy; and New York, United States, and has presented seven solo exhibitions to date.

Exhibitions