Helen Ek Heller 1918–1974 (born as Helen Olive Ek to Swedish immigrants in Pearl River, NY) was a professional photographer, a sculptor, and a modern dancer based in Westchester County, New York.

She was trained by the modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm (1893–1992), who established The Hanya Holm School of Dance in Manhattan.

Heller also studied sculpture with the avant–garde Austrian sculptor/ceramicist Kurt Ohnsorg
(1927–1970) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Early in her career, Heller trained as a professional photographer in New York City.

Her art included portrait busts of emigre colleagues and friends, sculptures of modern dancers, mothers and their children, and victims of the Vietnam War. Heller made photographs of artists and dancers and photographic illustrations for two children’s books. She taught modern dance to Maryknoll nuns, women in the community and to poor and underserved children at the Ossining Children’s Center in Ossining, New York. Heller’s art and life reflected her commitment to multiculturalism, anti–war activism, religious tolerance, feminism, gender and racial inclusivity.

She died of cancer in 1974.

She had two solo exhibitions in New York City:

1966: Selected Artists Galleries, 903 Madison Avenue, New York 21, NY

1974: The Benevy Gallery, 542 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012