Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions, in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed-up gum) collected in public places.

Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues, including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and SFMoMA, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.

Heather has a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a founding board member of Digital DNA, a European Research Council-funded project investigating the changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA, and evidence.