photo by Emily Ferretti
Heidi Ross is a private chef and multidisciplinary artist who creates culinary performances, installations, and dinners for private events, galleries, public and outdoor spaces.
Heidi uses food as visceral communication through communion—exploring sentience and interspecies connection through sound, touch, taste, and new media.
Projects
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Potato Croquettes - Asi Asi
Site specific installation dinner in response to renowned architect Paul Revere Williams at Second Home, Los Angeles
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Flesh Detection
Sound and taste performance with Melissa Achten at experimental sound studio, Oracle Egg, Los Angeles
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Water Memory
Listening practice, Pacific Ocean 2024
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Listening to Mushrooms
Sound and taste performance with foraged fennel salt sculpture in David Horvitz' garden
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Discocat
Plant medicine and plant dye bespoke pastry project - cake as sculpture.
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Beet and Mushroom Toast
Form, color, taste study for Volta's SALT production
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Fiky Fiky Dinner at Glass Island
Culinary performance and dinner celebrating Fiky Fiky wines
Events
Food Design
Logo branded individual tiramisu cups
Honest brand launch party
Beverly Hills, CA
July 2025
Weddings
Late Summer Wedding
Creative installation / Grazing Table
Farmer’s market sourced edible installations, interactive grazing table, experiential design
Los Angeles, CA
September 2024
Performance
Embodying the Equinox: A feast for the Senses
Soho Warehouse, Los Angeles
A collaborative dining experience & performance, food installation, sensory food event with Chef Camila Casañas, Empara Dance Collective, Curator Halston Bruce
September 2024
Production
Simulacra
Set design, food-based sculpture, and sound design assistance for Simulacra, a modern dance performance performed at LA Dance Project led by Choreographer Meg Paradowski of Empara, sound design by Composer Ian Wellman.
September 2025
Immersive Dining
Residencies
2023
IKEA.residency, Fall 2023
2024
Oracle Egg, Spring 2024
NAHR, Fall 2024
Collaborators / Clients
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About
Heidi Ross is a private chef and artist playing at the intersection of taste, sound, and movement using food as medium. Her conceptual, somatic, and artistic approach to cooking come through in immersive performances that connect people around a shared experience. Her work centers curiosity and embodiment, everyday rituals, and the profound possibilities of sound.
Services
Food design/styling
Creative food installations for brand activations
Private dinners
Experiential event design
Wedding catering & installations
Conceptual & branded catering
Customized meal deliveries
Private Chef travel
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Available for travel