Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in San Francisco. Her practice emerges from the crossroads of mythology, ecology, and technology, and engages wildlife observation, folk spiritualities, experimental self-publishing, computational poetics, game design, and trickster studies.
In 2025, Helen was a Leonardo@Djerassi Art+Science Resident at Djerassi Resident Artists Program; previously, they have been a 2023-24 San Francisco Arts Commission grantee, a 2023-24 Rhizome microgrant awardee, a 2023 Artist in Residence at Winslow House Project, a 2022 Thick Solidarity Resident at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Designer in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a 2018-2019 YBCA Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
In 2024, Helen joined the editorial collective for Taper, a browser-based literary journal of computational poetry. Since 2019, Helen has been a practicing wildlife naturalist, with a focus on urban coyotes. Occasionally, Helen makes tiny games and maintains a self-hosted server.