Her work often focuses on social practice art, or the relationship between space, geography and urban renewal.

[3] In 2003 she was chosen by the curator Rein Wolfs to exhibit at the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice biennale, along with Meschac Gaba, Carlos Amorales, Alicia Framis, and Erik van Lieshout.

[7] For this project, van Heeswijk worked with local Liverpool residents to repurpose derelict housing.

[9] In 2014 van Heeswijk was awarded the inaugural Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College.

[10] Jeanne van Heeswijk is part of the research fellowship program 2018/2019 at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht.