Helga Thomson was born in Buenos Aires Argentina, and studied there with German artist W. Dohme and printmakers Pompeyo and Eduardo Audivert. In Europe, she continued printmaking for brief periods in The Hague (Royal School of Art) and Paris (Atelier E. Caporaso and Jean Lodge). In the United States, Helga attended Ann Zahn's Printmaking Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, as well as Montgomery College, Maryland (with Z. Sikora), and the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (with Gene Frederick and W. Christenberry, and digital art with Marise Riddell and Marte Newcomb).
She has exhibited in international juried, group and solo shows. Her works are included in private and public collections (such as the Library of Congress) in the United States, Argentina, Europe and Central Asia. Helga has received national and regional awards in the United States.
In Buenos Aires, 1989, Helga Thomson was a teaching member of the "Taller de Artes Visuales" (Visual Arts Workshop) with Hermenegildo Sabat.
In 1994 she received a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia, doing work on the series "Torsos as Containers".
Since 1993, Helga has been a founding member-mentor and Head Mentor since 1999, of the Corcoran Arts Mentorship Program (CAMP), a youth mentoring program of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC. In 1999, CAMP was a national recipient of "Coming Up Taller" award presented by the National Endowment of the Arts and the President's Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
In July 1995, Helga was invited to give a four-day seminar on "New Safe Printmaking Techniques" at the studio of Matilde Marin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She is represented by the Washington Printmakers Gallery
of Washington, DC. At this Gallery Helga was Chairperson of the Exhibitions
Committee, organizing,
from
1992 to 2000, several special group exhibitions (one in Argentina).
In 1998, Helga was selected to participate in the "ArtSites 98" exhibition,
WPA/CORCORAN, Washington, DC, "Promesas y Milagros" mixed media installation.
She is a member of Maryland Printmakers, American Print Alliance, Washington Print Club, Rockville Arts Place (Maryland), The Print Club of Philadelphia, and Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran
In 2001 August Helga Thomson was invited to participate with the Academy of the Arts of Uzbekistan and the Central Asian Cultural Exchange, USA, in the USA/Uzbekistan Exchange Exhibition and Conference in Tashkent.
Helga Thomson was selected to show in the First Biennial of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, October 2001 and a retrospective, “In the Universe of the Prints”, was organized for her at the WINCKELMANN-MUSEUM, Stendal, Germany, Sept.2002.
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