Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores social experience as a sensual phenomenon that is riddled with hierarchical complexity. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. Recent works examine the collapse of human created belief systems, and the spaces between our confinements within civilization and evolutionary wildness.
Wheat is the founder of Project Grow, an art studio and urban farming program based in Portland, Oregon, that collaborated with developmentally disabled adults and investigated the intersection of food, value systems, society, and physical contact with the earth as a form of de-institutionalization. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as The Detroit Art Museum, the Wattis, The Museum of Folk and Craft Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, Roberts Projects and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her studio is in Ojai, CA, on a Mountain.