Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Wenda Habenicht grew up in Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin before moving to New York City to earn her MFA at Columbia University. She then moved to Brooklyn and while there, Wenda created numerous large-scale, outdoor, architecturally and/or anthropomorphically derived sculpture, often participatory and many of which were sited in public spaces. Wenda built her first large outdoor sculpture in 1982 at The Midwest Coast, Art and Agriculture in Caledonia, Illinois and continued to build and exhibit sculpture in the United States and Canada. After a twenty-two year hiatus from making art, Wenda started taking photographs in 2012 and began developing her series of digital photographic diptychs. Several years later, she returned to building sculpture and creating works on paper.
Wenda Habenicht currently lives and works in South Worcester, NY.