Britta Wheeler (b. 1963, Kansas City, MO) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has included painting and sculpture, documentary photography and video, and performance. 

Trained as a sociologist, Wheeler combines sociology and art. Her doctoral research investigates the history, meaning, and process of institutionalization of performance art.  

Britta has developed a process that goes between the objective eye of a social scientist to the subconscious realm of her other-worldly visions.

She creates painting and sculpture of her own vibrant, symbolic, mythological scenes and forms.  Britta’s internal landscape is vivid, deep, and expressive. Her use of color is significant and integral to these pieces.

Wheeler earned a BS degrees in Textiles, Clothing and Design from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont.

The artist has exhibited her work at Women’s Center, UC Santa Barbara, the Baltic Center, UK; Pratt Manhattan Gallery; Bobst Library; White Box Gallery, curated by Mark Bloch; Grace Performance Space, curated by Daniel Larkin; and Gallery 594, Brooklyn.  She has published in Brooklyn Rail and in scholarly journals.  Britta received a New York State Council on the Arts Grant in 2022 for her sculptural series and installation: The Red Birds Came First. She currently lives and works in New York City and Sullivan County, New York.