Helen O'Leary (born 1961) is an Irish-born artist based in the United States and Ireland, who is best known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture and object and image. Her mature work uses bricolage and handicraft approaches to refashion older works, studio castoffs and diverse materials into abstract pieces that explore materials, language, physical remnants of the past, and the visual, cultural and emotional influences of origin. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland, the United States, and internationally, including shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) (Belfast), American Academy of Arts and Letters, SFMOMA, the Sanskriti Foundation (New Delhi), Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne), and Centre Culturel