EDUCATION
1967 B.A., Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1969 M.F.A., Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
AWARDS
Flintridge Foundation Award, 2004
Governor's Award, State of Washington, 1992
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.)
Berlin, Germany, 1978
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1996 “Robert Helm 1981-1993”, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1995 “Robert Helm 1981-1993”, Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington
“Robert Helm 1981-1993”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,WA
1994 “Robert Helm 1981-1993”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
1991 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1984 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1982 Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany
1978 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, ID
1976 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1970 Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Aviary”
1998 Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, group show.
Cologne Art Fair, Germany.
Gallery Reddman, Berlin, group show.
L. A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles,"Gallery Artist Group Show".
1997 Cologne Art Fair, Germany
Gallery Reddman, Berlin, "Five American Artists"L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, "Gallery Group Exhibition".Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, Invitational.
Emily Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY, "Wood Work"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group"
1996 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group"
1995 Champion International Headquarters, “Woodwork”
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Summer Gallery Group”
1994 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Winter Group Exhibition”
1993 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”
1992 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1991 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer Group Exhibition"
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT, "With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting"
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Storyline"
1989 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, "Master of the Inland Northwest"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Summer"
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, "The ContemporaryAmerican Landscape: A Certain Slant of Light"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Epiphanies"
1988 irshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., "Different Drummers"
1987 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"1987 Biennial Exhibition"
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Inland Empire"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 University Art Gallery, California State University, Carson, CA
"Miracles and Mysteries"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, "Awards in the Visual Arts 5",
Travelled to: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH,
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ "New Narrative Painting:
Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA "American/European, Part II:
Painting and Sculpture"
1985 L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA "American/European: Painting
and Sculpture"
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "Contemporary Wood
Sculpture"
1984 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Inaugural Exhibition"
1982 "Art Fair", Basel, Switzerland
"Art Fair", Cologne, Germany
"Art Fair 82" Dusseldorf, Germany
1980 Middendorf-Lane Gallery, Washington D.C. Invitational Show
"Tableaux, an American Selection" `
1977 "Biennale 10", Paris, France
1975 Museum of Art , Washington State University, Pullman, WA
"Northwest Sculpture" Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MO "Concepts and
Executions of 8 Sculptors" Galerie Giancarla Bocchi, Milan, Italy
1974 Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Canada
1973 Washington State Governor's Invitational Show, Olympia, WA
1972 Ashland College, Ashland, OH "Contemporary Painting and
Sculpture Invitational "
1971 Brena Gallery, Denver, CO
1969 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA "Northwest
Annual"
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collection of Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Board,Washington, D.C.