Arjan van Helmond is interested in painting as a medium that helps us think about objects, places and representations of spaces of our daily lives. His art practice focusses on appropriating through painting the unspectacular and even banal aspects of daily life: a view of the sea, a garden, the house we live in, the carpet under our feet, souvenirs and trinkets in the closet. Images that tell us a story and yet, his paintings are not explicitly narrative. Instead they use ordinary and evocative details to build up a form of realism, to trace a path between history, culture, cliché and everyday human behaviour;

Arjan van Helmond lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2004. In 2024, he created The Garden of Life Flowers, a series of tapestries accompanied by circular ceramic paintings, as a public work for The Dutch Cancer Institute. In October 2019, he presented Golfbrekers, a public artwork consisting of over 350 large ceramic painted tiles, at the NS train station in Leeuwarden. In 2017, he received the Jeanne Oosting Prize.

His solo exhibitions include Museum More in Gorssel, Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen, De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Lucebert Huis in Bergen, LUMC in Leiden, and many others. His work can be found in international collections such as the William Louis-Dreyfus Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Saatchi Collection, Schunck, De Nederlandsche Bank, Chadha Art Collection, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Heden, The Schorr Family Collection, Rabo Art Collection, and many more.

Arjan van Helmond is represented by Gallery Gerhard Hofland in Amsterdam.