Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores experience as sensual phenomenon. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. These traces sometimes appear to be paintings. The collapse of belief systems; human tactics for controlling living things; destruction and development, are recurring themes within the work.
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.