Heide Hatry is a NYC-based German artist and former rare bookseller best known for her conceptually-oriented work employing discarded, disdained, debased, or “taboo” materials. She has also curated many exhibitions and shown her work at museums and galleries all over the world.

In addition to her various self-contained bodies of work, Hatry has worked with the book as an art medium throughout her career, producing to date more than 250 unique artist’s books, and has included book publication as integral and collaborative components of her larger projects (Skin, Heads and Tales, Not a Rose, and Icons in Ash).  Along the way, she’s edited dozens of exhibition catalogues, designed book covers, and contributed artwork or text to numerous printed books.

She is the founder of ICONS IN ASH, a social art project devoted to helping people content with grief and, ideally, to beginning the process of establishing a new and healthier relationship with death in general, as well as of POLAR BEAR FEST, a Lumbung art initiative created to foster community while fighting the climate crisis.