Heidi Ross Art | Multisensory design with food

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

Potato Croquettes - Asi Asi

Site specific installation dinner in response to renowned architect Paul Revere Williams at Second Home, Los Angeles
Flesh Detection

Sound and taste performance with Melissa Achten at experimental sound studio, Oracle Egg, Los Angeles
Water Memory

Listening practice, Pacific Ocean 2024
Listening to Mushrooms

Sound and taste performance with foraged fennel salt sculpture in David Horvitz' garden
Discocat

Plant medicine and plant dye bespoke pastry project - cake as sculpture.
Beet and Mushroom Toast

Form, color, taste study for Volta's SALT production
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

Multiple glasses of tiramisu with butterfly-shaped cocoa powder decorations on top, arranged on a wooden serving board.

Weddings

Late Summer Wedding

Creative installation / Grazing Table

Farmer’s market sourced edible installations, interactive grazing table, experiential design

Los Angeles, CA

September 2024

Person in a suit slicing a braided bread at a table with various dishes, including a fruit platter, a bowl of mashed potatoes with figs, and other food items.

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

A woman participating in a fire-eating performance at nighttime, with flames on a dish in front of her and others observing.

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

A stage performance showing a woman in a beige dress crawling on the floor, reaching up toward a large hanging red sculpture, which appears to be a suspended bucket or container, in a dimly lit environment with blue lighting.

A tall food sculpture made of skewered green and black olives stacked in a spiral pattern, with the green olives on top, placed on a table covered with a white tablecloth at an outdoor gathering.

Immersive Dining

A white plate filled with pink radish slices topped with small, oval-shaped decorative watermelon figures with green and white striped patterns. Food sculpture, edible art

Multiple white, rounded cake sculptures arranged in a curved line on a surface, illuminated by blue lighting in a dark room. Food installation, edible art.

Three aluminum trays filled with fresh green snap peas set outdoors, with kitchen or grilling items in the background.

Close-up of cheese and fruit paté on a white plate with vegetable crudités behind it. Food sculpture, edible art

Close-up of egg shell cups containing chawanmushi in metal egg cups arranged on a reflective surface at a multi sensory performance.

A hand holding a small cup of tomato jam over a smooth plating of hummus in a black tray on a white surface. Wedding food installation, edible art.

A table set for outdoor dining with a white tablecloth, decorated with plates, glasses, silverware, fresh fruits, and floral arrangements, under a wooden pergola among trees.

A woman in a white sleeveless top and beige skirt is serving dessert at a table with several plates of white panna cotta topped with figs and syrup.

A dining table set for a meal with wine glasses, plates, and utensils, adorned with a tall centerpiece of green leafy branches in a white vase, in front of a white wall decorated with framed black-and-white photographs.

A serving tray with multi-colored endive arranged in a decorative pattern on a white surface. Food sculpture, edible art.

Close-up of a baked dish with caramelized onion, anchovies, olives, and cheese.

Top view of a round tart with a border on a speckled white surface, filled with sliced mandarins in syrup.

Dinner table scene with glasses of drinks, candles, plates of food, and a person holding a fork in a warm, candlelit setting.

Close-up of a matcha crepe cake with whipped cream, olive oil, and vanilla, resting on a speckled granite surface.

Residencies

2023

IKEA.residency, Fall 2023

2024

Oracle Egg, Spring 2024
NAHR, Fall 2024

Collaborators / Clients

Sambal Evie

Melissa Achten Klausner

Matthew Bejtlich

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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.

Woman with curly hair wearing a black top and apron, holding a plate with a dessert, standing against a textured beige wall, illuminated by sunlight.

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

Heidi Ross is a private chef and multidisciplinary artist who creates culinary performances, installations, and dinners for private events, galleries, public and outdoor spaces.

Projects

Potato Croquettes - Asi Asi

Flesh Detection

Water Memory

Listening to Mushrooms

Discocat

Beet and Mushroom Toast

Fiky Fiky Dinner at Glass Island