Nancy Hellebrand has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries since 1973. Her photographs are in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Portrait Gallery in London, Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Hellebrand’s solo gallery exhibitions include Pace/MacGill and Heidi Cho Gallery in New York; Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Locks Gallery, and Paul Cava Gallery in Philadelphia. Her museum exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York; the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; and the Tate Britain. Also in London, at the National Portrait Gallery, she had a solo exhibition where she was the first American artist and the first living woman to exhibit.

Awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She taught photography at Yale University, Parsons The New School for Design, University of the Arts, and Bucks County Community College.

Born in Philadelphia, Hellebrand studied photography and film at the University of Southern California and Boston University, and received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She also studied with Alexey Brodovitch in New York and Bill Brandt in London.

Nancy Hellebrand is represented by June Bateman Fine Art in New York and Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art in Sarasota.