Stef Heidhues was born in 1975 in Washington D.C. She studied Fine Arts with Franz Erhard Walther at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg until 2005. 2012/13 she was granted the stipend EHF 2010 by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In fall 2017 she will go to Beijing, China with a travel grant by the Geka e.V..