Born in Mexico City. She lives and works in Mexico and Berlin. The artist was director of the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in the same city. In 1991 Escobedo was awarded the Guggenheim grant. Helen has had 35 one-person exhibits and has participated in more than 100 group shows. She has created 30 permanent sculptures in Mexico, Canada, United States, Cuba, England, New Zealand and Israel. Among the most important places she has exhibit her work are: Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, in Mexico City, Helsingin Tadeimuseo, Helsinki, Finland; Ordrupgard Museum, Copiague, Denmark; Musée d’art du Quebec, Canada; in MOMA, Oxford, England; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. She has written essays and published in journals devoted to aesthetic issues. She is one of the first artists of her generation to embrace site specificity both in her permanent as well as her ephemeral works. In 1999 she gave a lecture at the J. Paul Getty Conservation Institute on the ephemeral aspect of modern artworks.