Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on the interconnectedness among all Living Beings.

Art has also been her intuitive way of healing herself as well as grappling with human activities that cause destruction and sorrow and on the marvelactically other spectrum - inspire wonder and healing.

For the last 18 years Quante has been creating artworks globally ranging from one on one interactive experiences to large scale public participatory artworks. Her artworks focus on the interconnectedness of social and environmental issues.

Quante also has a non-public art practice in which she uses a wide array of medium including writing letters, creating sculptures, photographs and films for individuals privately.

This website is but a snapshot of some projects.

Quante received a Bachelor of Science as well as a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of California at Berkeley but her real learning has come from all the Beautiful Beings she has had the good fortune of collaborating with. She is incredibly thankful for everyone for their support including Nion McEvoy, the Awesome Foundation, California Humanities, Compton Foundation, French Ministry of Culture, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Kresge Foundation, Miami Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, RSF Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Whitman Institute, and the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation, all who have helped bring these creative projects to life.

Artworks have been exhibited at ArtCenterLA, BAMPFA, Blackwood Gallery, Kala Art Institute, La Gaîté Lyrique, Miami Art Basel, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Southern Exposure, YBCA and throughout Paris during the 21st UN Climate Change Conference as well as in wild and wonderous outdoor spaces. Awards include Finalist Rauschenberg Artist as Activist (2015), Finalist C.O.A.L. Art & Environment Prize (France 2016), Finalist Social Practice YBCA (2016) & the Maker Muse Award of the Kindle Project (2017).

Quante regularly guest lectures at universities and diverse institutions on the power of art to shift culture(s) with a focus on shifting cultures around climate change. Institutions have included American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), California College of the Arts (CCA), U.C. Berkeley, Cornell University, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, NYU, Goethe-Institute and more.

For those curious = her current focus is WeAreWater, an interdisciplinary artwork that weaves together behavioral science and the power of the sights and sounds of Water to reconnect urban homo sapiens to our primordial relationship to this life giving source.