Sasha Huber

Sasha Huber (born 1975) is a contemporary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her work deals with colonial and post-colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial-era pseudo science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization and transnational capitalism.

Biography and education Huber was born in 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland, to a Haitian mother and a Swiss father. Her maternal grandfather emigrated to New York in 1965 to escape the regime of the Haitian dictator François Duvalier. Seeking refuge from the regime, Huber's maternal grandfather migrated to New York City in 1965. She lives in Helsinki with her husband and son, and travels internationally for artists' residencies and exhibitions. Huber continued her research into Agassiz with Brazilian historian Maria Helena Machado, publishing (T)races of Louis Agassiz: Photography, Body and Science, Yesterday and Today (2010) as part of an exhibition for the 29th Sao Paulo Art Biennial in 2010. In addition, Huber's work has been acquired by the permanent collection of Kiasma, the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art.