Sasha Huber was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975, and currently lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Her background is in graphic design, which she studied in Zurich. In 2000 she received a scholarship to Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre in Treviso, Italy. In 2006 she graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki with an MA in Visual Cultures.

In her work she examines her roots and their influence on the process of building a personal and artistic identity. Being of Haitian and European heritage she allies herself with the Caribbean Diaspora. She has been unable to visit her mother’s homeland, Haiti, because of continuing security risks. Her work combines political criticism with an aesthetic rendering of the subject matter. Firing an uncountable number of staples into wooden surfaces is just one of the ways she realizes her ideas. In one such project this literally involved shooting portraits of Christopher Columbus and former Haitian Dictators.

She also works with video, photographs, drawings, documentary material, and more recently with interactive dialogue in the form of interventions. One of these interventions involved flying to the Agassizhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps named after the Swiss naturalist and racist Louis Agassiz, and renaming the mountain Rentyhorn in honour of a slave – called Renty – used by Agassiz in his research. Huber has been showing her work collaboratively and in solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad since 2003.