Sacha Vega is an artist who collages across movement, poetics, and humor to invite focus into the ideologies that train our bodies to move. Through performance, time-based media, and writing, her practice encourages critical play in reframing genres of embodied instruction. Often placing a sense of mastery in complication with a novice to unsettle hierarchies around ability, discipline, class, race, and gender. Her own body is imprinted by: American dance theater, Filipino karaoke parties, a Bolshoi ballerina, immigrant parents, suburban aspirations, Post-Modern chance forms, and physical comedy. Working in concert with performers and audiences alike, she’s invested in using her practice as an experimental space to test beliefs of authority, horizontal organization, and temporary utopias.

She has exhibited and performed at Westbeth Gallery, Mason Gross Galleries, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Baxter St x CCNY, Java Project, Pelham Art Center, and 99cent Plus Gallery. She’s been in residence at LEIMAY’s Incubator Program, Wassaic Project, Van Noord Van Noord, Casa Tagumerche, Stoneleaf Retreat, and ARTHA Project. She’s hosted workshops at Abrons Art Center, Performance Space NY, Zimmerli Museum of Art, and coLAB arts. She has a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has taught as an adjunct professor/visiting artist at Rutgers University, Stern College for Women, and Pratt Institute. 

She is 1/3 of the artist-led initiative Memory Foam. They collaborate on curating exhibitions, publishing, programming, and producing artist interview series.