Heather Sheehan (born December 9, 1961) is an American artist who lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

In her work, she combines elements of sculpture, installation, performance, video art and black and white photography.

[1] From 1981 to 1983, she studied textile science and women's tailoring at the Fashion Institute of Technology at the State University of New York.

She wears a white kerchief and puts down under a willow, the coarse linen sack and black stone which she carried in her arms like a child or her own soul.

For the exhibition Soulfood (2003) at the Fuhrwerkswaage in Cologne, she installed the ingredients for 2000 kg of rice pudding in triangular formation: two open cubes together with one hanging sack; ingredients not only for a comfort food for children and adults, but essential to basic nutrition of large portions of the world's population: "[...] she combines the purism of the empty, utilitarian space with the modern concept of minimalism to create the aura of a still life of motherly care."

(in German: [...] sie verbindet den Purismus des ausgeräumten Nutzraumes mit dem Minimalismus moderner Positionen zur Aura eines Stillebens mütterlicher Fürsorge.

In starker Vergrößerung wirken diese Tafeln auf ihre Weise suggestiv: Die menschliche Gestalt scheint aus der Plüschpuppe hervorzubrechen.

Additionally, she created a video entitled Single Opening, in which she appeared as Professor Dr. Nurse and explained that the creatures are the result of the recreation of a monotreme, which she calls Maboutae.

"She sarcastically caricatures them as an absurd research focus and our amateurish ideas about the possibility of genetic engineering and its economic advantages."

Based on them, she develops her installations and performances: "There is a place of fertile tension between desire and consciousness, between looking out at the world and looking back in to the self.

Ich verschmelze mit dem Material, bis das physische Erleben meine Praxis anregt.