Heide Hatry

Who is Heide Hatry?

Heide Hatry is a New York-based German neo-conceptual artist, curator and editor. Her work, often either body-related or employing animal flesh and organs, has aroused controversy and has been considered horrific, repulsive or sensationalist by some critics, while others have hailed her as an "imaginative provocateur", "a force of nature..., an artist and a humanist who is making a selfless contribution to life," and an artist whose works provoke a "reaction akin to having witnessed a murder." Her work bears conceptual similarities to that of Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, Dieter Roth, Jana Sterbak, and Louise Bourgeois.