Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores experience as sensual phenomenon. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, existing as traces of experience. These works often engage the play between wildness and destruction; heterotopias; violence; shapes of control; and the collapse of belief systems.
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, agriculture, labor, 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, where she currently operates The Ojai School.