1994 "Faces" one-man show in the Centre International Contemporain d'Art in Montreal..

Helnwein meets Martin Kippenberger in Cologne.
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One man show - Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Koblenz.

Helnwein meets Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles.
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Helnwein travels with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley to Budapest.
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Helnwein works on the "Fire"- series.
a series of dark monochrome paintings with the faces of Arthur Rimbaud, Jim Morrison, Malcolm X, Mishima, Mayakovski, Rosa Luxemburg, Ulrike Meinhof and others.

One-man show in the Städtisches Museum, Schleswig.

"Das Jahrzehnt der Malerei" (The Decade of Painting).
Austrian Artists of the Schömer Collection, Vienna
in the Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany.

Helnwein works intensively on the development of new artistic techniques.
He creates new mixed-media techniques by developing, changing, altering and combining various images on the computer and painting them finally with different media on canvas, (usally: oil, acrylic and ink-jet)

1993 One-man show "Faces" at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.
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Helnwein meets James Brown in Germany, who sits for a portrait photo-session .
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One man-show at the Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie.

"Faces", one-man show in the Munich Stadtmuseum.

"Aktion-Reaktion" (Action-Reaction) exhibition of the Austrian painters Rainer, Nitsch, Brus, and Helnwein, works from the Schömer collection, at the Foundation Fiecht, Austria.

In the Ludwig Forum in Aachen the "48 Portraits" are shown in the "Künstlerportraits" exhibition.

1992 First one-man show at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.
Martin Muller, founder of Modernism San Francisco, detected Helnwein's work at Basel Art fair some years before. Since 1992 Modernism San Francisco represents Helnwein in the US ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art shows Helnwein's self-portait "Black Mirror".
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One-man show at the Pfalzgalerie Museum in Kaiserslautern and at the Kunstmuseum in Thun.

Helnwein meets Lou Reed in London.

Helnwein's poster for the theatre play "Jeanmaire" by Swiss poet and playwright Urs Widmer causes tumult in Switzerland.
The police bans the poster from being displayed, the Swiss parliament discusses the scandal and the sunday-preacher of national Television dedicates his weekly sermon to condem Helnwein's painting ...