Works

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Aki Sasamoto

Born 1980, Kanagawa
Lives and works in New York

2022 Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2018 Professor in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2007 MFA, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York
2004 BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: “Aki Sasamoto’s Life Laboratory,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [upcoming]

2024: “Sounding Lines,” Para Site, Hong Kong

2023: “Point Reflection,” Queens Museum, New York
“Squirrel Ways,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2022: “Float Sink Float,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017: “Menu,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Aki Sasamoto: Yield Point,” The Kitchen, New York

2016: “Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle,” Sculpture Center, New York

2014: “Wrong Happy Hour,” JTT, New York

2012: “E_O, “Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2010: “Strange Attractors,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: “an archive and/or a repertoire,” Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA

2024: “Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
“Still in Motion,” San Jose Museum of Art, San José, CA

2023: “15,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2022: Okayama Art Summit 2022, “Do we dream under the same sky”
Busan Biennale 2022, “We, on the Rising Wave”
Aichi Triennale 2022, “Still Alive”
59th Venice Biennale, “The Milk of Dreams”

2021: “Apple Cycle / Cosmic Seed,” Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori
“Galleries Curate: RHE,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo [online]

2019: “Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time,” Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou
“Walking Through Walls,” Gropius Bau, Berlin

2018: “Objects Like Us,” Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
“10,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Rehearsal,” Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
“Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2017: Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017, “Multiple Future”

2016: 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale, “forming in the pupil of an eye”
11th Shanghai Biennale, “Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories”

2013: “5th Anniversary,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Roppongi Crossing 2013, “Out of Doubt,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“A Spoken Word Exhibition,” Jeu de Paume, Paris

2012: Gwangju Biennale 2012, “Roundtable”
“Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap,” Calder Foundation, New York

2010: Greater New York, “5 Year Review,” MoMA PS1, New York
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2008: Yokohama Triennale 2008, “Time Crevasse”

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