Sasha Huber

Huber was born in 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland, to a Haitian mother and 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. ==Exhibitions and collaborations==

Huber began working with the Demounting Louis Agassiz, a collective that has demanded the renaming of the Agassiz peak in the Swiss Alps since 2007. Louis Agassiz was an American and Swiss scientist and professor who supported scientific racism and argued for Eurocentric racial categorizations of humans in the 19th century. The Demounting Louis Agassiz petition has collected over 2,500 signatures internationally to change the name of this peak to honor Renty, an enslaved man of Congolese descent who was photographed on a plantation in South Carolina as part of Agassiz's project. 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. ==References==