Vanity Project is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary art studio founded by artists Heather Besemer-Schulz and Jeff Schulz. Working at the intersection of architecture, image-making, and cultural critique, the studio values hybridity over fixed categories and evolves through experimentation, agility, and intent.

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The name serves as both provocation and manifesto. It reclaims “vanity” from its dismissive connotations and affirms creative labor as essential rather than indulgent. Their work moves between the polished and the raw, merging commercial vernaculars with experimental forms to explore identity, desire, care, and mediated experience.

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Vanity Project defies categorization and asserts the urgency of both aesthetic and intellectual risk. They move with punk defiance, feminist conviction, and the radical optimism of repair.