Helen Verhoeven was born in the Netherlands in 1974 and moved to the US in 1986 where she received her Bachelors of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. She did her Masters at the New York Academy of Art and attended the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten from 2005 to 2006. She has been represented by Wallspace Gallery in New York since 2003 and is represented by Galerie Stigter van Doesburg in the Netherlands. Verhoeven received the Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (Royal Painting Prize) in 2008 and the Wolvecampprijs in 2010. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions in the Bonnefanten Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Kestnergesellschaft, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, GEM, the Essl Museum, and the Dordrecht Museum. Her work on a commission for the Hoge Raad (Supreme Court) of the Netherlands is currently shown at the Nederlandsche Bank as a two-person exhibition with Peggy Franck. She lives and works in Berlin.