Natasha Wheat
Lives and Works: Los Angeles and Ojai CA
Education
California College of the Arts, M.F.A. Sculpture, 2011
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A., 2008
Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions
You Cannot Control What Is Wild, Taft Botanical Gardens and Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA
Decor en Carbon: The Fifth Column, New York, NY
Head Chef, Museum of Folk and Craft Art, San Francisco, CA
Corrected Slogans (in collaboration with Claire Fontaine), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Self Contained, Here Not There, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Bean In, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
American Seed, Clarke Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Dreams Can Come True, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
Fragile-FIber, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai CA
If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes,The Detroit Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan
Blank Out, The Apartment, Vancouver BC
When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes,The Wattis, San Francisco, CA
In Protest, The Commons, Vancouver, BC
Only Birds Sing the Music of Heaven in This World, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
In Protest, Curated by Joseph del Pesco, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
In the Making, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Pieces of You-topia, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Dreams that Money Can Buy, The Wattis, San Francisco, CA
The Happiness Project, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
Domesticity Unhinged, Playspace, San Francisco, CA
Our Fire and Our Tenderness, Add-Art
Secret Society, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Skillät Hans, (collaboration with Kai Althoff)) Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
Skillät Hans, (collaboration with Kai Althoff) PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Transmission, Studio for Urban Projects, San Francisco, CA
American Seed, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
BFA Thesis Exhibition, G2, Chicago, IL
Lessons in Learning, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
I Love Real Life, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Waste Stream Diversions, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Available Space, Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Reactions: A Conversation on War, The Creativity Center, Santa Monica, CA
Independent Curatorial Projects
Project Grow, IGLOO, Portland, Oregon
Interactivist, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
Interactivist, Skulpturenpark, Berlin, Germany
Interactivist, West Germany, Berlin, Germany
Interactivist, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Honors
Visiting Artist, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Artist in Residence, Taft Botanical Gardens and Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA
Visiting Artist, Santa Monica College Mentor Artist Program, Santa Monica, CA
Visiting Artist, Portland State University Art and Social Practice Program, Portland, Oregon
Guest Lecturer and Panelist, People and Places, San Francisco Art institute, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Sculpture Department, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Painting Department, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Project Grow, Portland, Oregon
Guest Speaker, ArtWork, Sight School, Oakland, CA
CSF Fellowship Recipient, to work with Future Farmers
Full Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Rogaland Kunstskolen, Stavanger, Norway
Touscene, Artist in Residence, Stavanger, Norway
Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Wysing Arts Centre, as a part of the
Mess Hall series of events, Cambridge, UK
Guest Lecturer, G2, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Boys and Girls Club, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Visiting Artist, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Grant
Selected Publications
In Bloom, Modafamilia, December 2017
If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? Exhibition Catalog, Hunter College Press, 2016
RH Gets Contemporary, WMagazine, November 2013
RH Opens...Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, November 2013
Three Young Artists Weigh In…, Chioma Nnadi, Vogue.com, November 2013
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Exhibition Catalog, Edited by Jens Hoffman, Text by Christian Rattemeyer, Constance Lewallen, Julian Myers, published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 2013
Natasha Wheat’s Engaging Resistance, Rachel Walther, California College of the Arts, October 2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Terri Cohn, Art Practical, September 2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Mark Van Proyen, Art Practical, September 2012
Scribbled Notes on the State of Collaboration, Kara Q. Smith, ArtSlant, October 2011,
Maybe it Will Fall Apart, Patricia Maloney, Art Practical, October 2011
Serving, Cooking, Giving it Away: Food, Art and the Places In Between, Twilight Greenaway, Art Practical, October 2010
Three Visiting Artist Projects About Food, Community and Economy Descend on Chicagoland: Summer Harvest, Daniel Tucker, H Art International, September 3, 2010
Natasha Wheat, Self Contained at the MCA, Project Grow, and agriculture as bio political, Dan Godston, Examiner, July 17, 2010
Episode 252 : Natasha Wheat, Bad at Sports, June 27, 2010
Hippy-Dippy-Dreamy-Druggy, Interview with Natasha Wheat by Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney, Art Practical, June 23, 2010
Food as Art, Andrew Simmons, SF Weekly, April 20, 2010
Project Grow Lecture Series, Words Pick, Willamette Week, January 8, 2010
MCA Challenges Visitors With Hidden Installations, Karis Hustad, The Phoenix, 2010
Creativity Beyond Disability, Holly Goodman, The Oregonian, November 5, 2009
Perpetual Motion Machine, (Single) Cover Art, Modest Mouse, Sony Records, 2009
A Forest of Personality, Ned Lannamann, Portland Mercury, December 18, 2008
Available Space, Exhibition Catalog, Santa Monica College Press, 2005
Public Collections
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
101 Collection, Artnow International Foundation