JJ Hellerman

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Instagram Reels Viewing Devices

Instagram Reels Viewing Devices

2026Bronze & pewter, resin, networked OLED screensSeries of 5
Reliquary 004 (V&A)

Reliquary 004 (V&A)

20263D-printed reliquary, networked display system8 × 20 × 30 cm
BUGS

BUGS

2025Corrupted NFC cards; phone; the World Wide Web20 × 20 × 7.5 cm each
Apparatus I

Apparatus I

2025Steel, magnets, acrylic, digital prints on glassine and tracing paper70 × 70 × 120 cm
Apparatus II (Here For Carla Hayden)

Apparatus II (Here For Carla Hayden)

2025Steel; neodymium magnets; acrylic panels; LEDs on aluminium heatsinks; servo motors; Arduino microcontroller; wires; WAGO connectors; bench PSUs; synthetic fabric; vectorized digital images; the Library of Congress website; BitcoinVariable; here approx. 220 (H) × 350 (W) × 60 (D) cm
Fall of Icarus

Fall of Icarus

2025Laser prints on water-soluble paper; ice; bolts; fishing wire; nuts; heatVariable; here approx. 250 (H) × 60 (W) × 30 (D) cm
Reliquary 001

Reliquary 001

2025Laser-etched acrylic, modular steel tableBox 25 × 30 × 20 cm; table 50 × 70 × 90 cm
Reliquary 003 (Unidentified Iconographies)

Reliquary 003 (Unidentified Iconographies)

2025Wooden drawers, cast pewter, OLED screens30 × 8 × 8 cm
and you were there, too…

and you were there, too…

2024Opaque white screenprints on correx board; flashlightsVariable
A river is a transient thing

A river is a transient thing

2024Transfer prints using intaglio ink and plate oil on dissolvable embroidery fabric; iceVariable

Live projects

Interactive research and tools that run online.

J. J. Hellerman — 3D scan portrait

J. J. Hellerman is an artist-researcher exploring how novel technologies alter structures of communication and archive.

Working across expanded print mediums—including layered transparent prints, 3D-printed and sculptural forms, and found and original imagery—she examines the material structures of archives and distribution systems, from the traditional codex and printing press to contemporary CNC fabrication, social media algorithms, AI, and blockchain.

By materializing the volatile architectures of the archive and the system through which it is communicated, Hellerman shifts focus from content to form, exposing a latent agency in the mechanisms by which political myths become formed, stored, and communicated.

Her practice bridges studio work and historiographic research, producing installations, prints, text, and curatorial projects. She is currently based in London with ongoing projects in New York.

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Education

2025

M.A. in Print, Royal College of Art, London

2024

Graduate Diploma, Royal College of Art, London

2023

B.A. in Government & Classical Languages, Georgetown University

Exhibitions

2026

Beyond is All Abyss, 140–142 Second Avenue, Suite 306, New York

2026

A System at Scale, Three Rooms Gallery, London

2025

Verifying Identity… Please Log In, A Space Gallery, New York

2025

RCA Graduate Show, Design Bar, RCA Battersea, London

2025

Fall of Icarus, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA Kensington, London

2025

Rites of Ruins, Safehouse 1, London

2025

In Betweens, Southwark Park Galleries, London

2024

River East, Way Out East Gallery, London

Publications

2025

Print Out: Material Intelligence

2024

Bold Visionaries

Writing

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