Aki Sasamoto

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, and video. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life. She has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, mathematicians, and engineers. Aki likes food. Donuts, grapefruits, potatoes, coffee, and well drinks appear in some of her works.

Her works appear in gallery spaces, theater spaces, as well as in odd sites. Her installation/performance works were shown at SculptureCenter, the Kitchen, Chocolate Factory Theater, Whitney Biennial 2010, Greater New York 2010 at MOMA-PS1, New York; National Museum of Art-Osaka, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan; Gwangju Biennial 2012, South Korea; Shanghai Biennale 2016, China; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India; and numerous other international and domestic venues.

Aki has received grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The New York Community Trust, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese Government, and more.
She is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Art, Sculpture Department.

Video links:
Art21 New York Close Up: Aki Sasamoto is Feeling Stretched(2017)

Delicate Cycle (2016) 1 min Excerpt

Profile photograph by Takehiro Iikawa