Alex Helmintoller is a California-based collage artist, editorial illustrator, and writer whose emerging body of work explores themes of nationalism, memorial, and renewal across generations through critique of Post-War American Mythology. Their work also explores the early 20th century displacement of Jewish families as a result of pogroms in Eastern Europe, using a photo archive and chronicle of the Lithuanian shtetl, Eishyshok, from which they trace their lineage. Elements of bureaucracy and statehood are represented in various forms; junk mail, advertisements, and architecture blur with the personal, and are juxtaposed with suggestions of violence and complicity.
Helmintoller has had work exhibited by the Vayo Collage Gallery in Rochester, New York, and by Kolaj Institute in New Orleans as part of Kolajfest. They were highly commended in Contemporary Collage Magazine’s CC 2022 Awards Issue, and in 2023 they received The Other Art Fair's "New Futures" Award, sponsored by Saatchi Art. They were most recently part of Beyond Baroque's group show on collage "Cut Out."
