Aki Sasamoto
Artist in Residence
Aki Sasamoto was born in Kanagawa, Japan, and currently lives and works in New Haven/Brooklyn, United States. Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, video and more. In her installation/performance works, Sasamoto moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life. Her works appear in gallery spaces, theater spaces and odd sites. Her works were shown at Queens Museum; Sculpture Center; the Kitchen; Chocolate Factory Theater;' Whitney Biennial 2010; MOMA-PS1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Aichi Triennale 2022; National Museum of Art-Osaka; Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art; Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan; Busan Biennale 2022; Gwangju Biennial 2012, South Korea; Shanghai Biennale 2016, China; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; Studio Voltaire, United Kingdom.; Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, the 59th Venice Biennale, Italy.
