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Tasha Dougé

Mixed-media Artist and Cultural Vigilante

Tasha Dougé is a Bronx-based, conceptual, mixed media artist, teaching artist, and cultural vigilante. Her work incites conversations around women, health advocacy, sexual education, societal "norms”, identity, and Black pride. As a proud Black woman of Haitian descent, it's very important and fundamental to Dougé’s practice to depict a more holistic description of Black identity and social contribution. The artist shares, “I use my art to exercise expression, enact empowerment and to serve as a bridge to connect and highlight those that are excluded and overlooked. My voice is the first tool within my art arsenal.”

Tasha Dougé’s practice is driven by conceptual ideas and with the use of mixed media. Tasha gives birth to art that challenges the audience to grapple with the ideals of tradition and conventional ways of thinking by using interactive components to integrate her audience into her works to bring the piece(s) to life. With women’s empowerment initially being the focal point, her work has quickly evolved to address the additional issues of social injustice,activism, racism and those that overall speak to the Black experience.

Tasha Dougé’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence Magazine and Sugarcane Magazine. She has shown nationally at the RISD Museum (Providence), The Apollo Theater (New York) and Rush Arts Gallery (Philadelphia) and internationally at the Hygiene Museum in Germany. Dougé is an alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, Urban Bush Women's Summer Leadership Institute, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship.

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