Ash Rucker (b. 1988, Buffalo, NY) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist whose practice blends sound, movement, meditation, and ritual to explore how emotions become stored in the body and how they may be released. She is the founder of TherapART, a nonprofit dedicated to transformative art therapy, created in response to her sibling’s struggle with addiction and incarceration. Through TherapART, she has developed a unique methodology rooted in somatic practice, meditation, and creative play, working with both youth and adults impacted by trauma and the criminal justice system.

Rucker’s performances and installations create sacred, immersive spaces for reflection and collective transformation. Recent projects include Turiya Rising: Silver Cord at the Hammer Museum (2025); Utopian Realities – The Sum of All Parts and Messages Received at the New Museum (2024); a collaboration with Shantell Martin for The Path at Times Square Arts (2023); and the exhibition Sum of All Parts in Los Angeles (2023). In 2025, she also led a collective memory project with the Brooklyn Museum’s Museum on Wheels in Bed-Stuy.

Rucker is a graduate of the Institute of Transformative Mentoring (ITM) at The New School. She has been a Beyond the Bars Fellow at Columbia University (2023–24) and a Create Change Fellow with The Laundromat Project (2021). In addition to her performance work, Rucker also works as a movement director, cultivating energy and confidence in her collaborators to bring out the most liberated version of themselves.