Biography

Aki Sasamoto
Born in 1980, Kanagawa, Japan
Lives and works in New York, U.S.A.
2022

Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, Yale University

2007

MFA, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

2004

BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
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

2020

Schematics, Bortolami Gallery, New York2019

Past in a future tense, Bortolami Gallery, New York2018

Clothes Line, White Rainbow, London

2017

Menu, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Wrong Happy Hour, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
Aki Sasamoto: Yield Point, The Kitchen, New York2016

Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle, SculptureCenter, New York2015

No Choice, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2014

Wrong Happy Hour, JTT, New York2012

Talking in Circles in Talking, Soloway, New York
E_O, Take Ninagawa, TokyoA Likeness Has Blisters, CCS, Bard College, New York (with Agnes Martin)
Secrets of My Mother’s Child, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan

2010

Strange Attractors, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo2009

Love is the End of Art, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York (with Momus)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

15, Take Ninagawa, TokyoWORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
On Point, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2022

Okayama Art Summit 2022: Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama
Busan Biennale 2022: We, On The Rising Wave, Busan, South Korea

Aichi Triennale 2022: STILL ALIVE, Aichi Arts Center
59th International Art Exhibition Of La Biennale Di Venezia: The Milk of Dreams,Arsenale, Venice
2021Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
A Higher Calling, White Space, BeijingSwirl, Drawing Room, Makati City, Philippines
Urban Theater: A Comedy in Four Acts, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
Apple Cycle/Cosmic Seed, Hirosaki Museum of Comtemporary Art, Aomori
Galleries Curate: RHE, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2020

Thank You Memory, Hirosaki Museum of Comtemporary Art, Aomori

2019

ELLE Japon 30th Special Exhibition: 30 Years of Japanese Women Artists,
Kashiyama Daikanyama, Tokyo
Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time, Guangdong Times Museum,Guangzhou
Walking Through Walls, Gropius Bau, Berlin5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art: Immortality, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Old Granary Viljamakasiini Magasinet, Fiskars, Finland

2018

Collection Asian Landscapes, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Objects Like Us, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
New Japan, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown - NMAO's 40th Anniversary Exhibition,
The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2017

Sequences VIII - real time art festival: Elastic Hours, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Common Exchange, Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017: Multiple Future,
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo2016

3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale: forming in the pupil of an eye, Aspinwall House andTKM Warehouse, Kochi, India
11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories,
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
O/U, Room East, New York

2015

Visitors, Governor's Island, New York
Dojima Biennale 2015: Take Me to the River, Dojima River Forum, Osaka
Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, New York
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Horikawa Housing
Complex, Kyoto

2014

Pier 54, High Line Art, New York2013

5th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, TokyoRoppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The Alumni Show II, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Kool-Aid Wino, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, Connecticut
Neo Povera, L & M Arts, Los Angeles, California
Struktur & Organismus III, Marillenhof Destillerie Kausl, Mühldorf, Austria
A Spoken Word Exhibition, Jeu de Paume, Paris2012

Gwangju Biennale 2012: Roundtable, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Calder Foundation, New York
Omnilogue: Journey to the West, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi

2011

Shoes Selection 6, Shoes Or No Shoes?, Kruishoutem, Belgium

2010

Paul Thek Says Make a Monkey Out of Clay, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija,Miami Design District, Florida
Greater New York: 5 Year Review, MoMA PS1, New York
Brick + Mortar: International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, Massachusetts
WUFF: A project by COCO & spike art magazine, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine
Whenever Wherever Festival, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York2009

One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York
Body Trauma, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York
Living Room 2009, Auckland

2008

Yokohama Triennale 2008: Time Crevasse, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Defining a Moment: 25 New York Artists, House of Campari, New York
Performed Identity, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York2007

MFA Thesis Show, Christie’s Education, New York
Renagades, Exit Art, New York2006

Tokyo - San Francisco Arts Festival: The Listening, The Lab, San Francisco, California
First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York2005

Praying Project, Exit Art, New York

Selected Performances, Theater Productions, Screenings & Commission
2020

Phase Transition Danspace Project, New York (theater production)

2019

Writers and Artists Respond: Aki Sasamoto, Jewish Museum, New York
Flaherty NYC: Puzzling, Anthology Film Archives, New York2018

Practices of Attention, SESC Vila Mariana, and Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo[symposium commissioned by Bienal de São Paulo and Sesc-SP] (screening)
Do Nut Diagram, Triple Canopy [online project] (commission)

2017

It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks, Central Park, New York2016

Their Shoes, Elastic City, New York

2015

untitled, petit cadeau by Claudia La Rocco, Chocolate Factory Theater,Long Island City, New York
Food Rental, High Line Art, New York
Skewed Lies/Parallel Stare, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York2014

Skewed Lies, TBA Festival, PICA, Portland, Oregon

Sunny in the Furnace, The Kitchen, New York (theater production)
2013

We Live with Animals, Performa 13, Van Alen Institute, New YorkThis is not a pink pony 1+2, by Yvonne Meier; as a dancer, Abrons Arts Center, New York2012

Centripetal Run, Chocolate Factory Theater, New York (theater production)book presentation, Bullet Space, New York
Movement Research Spring Festival, Center at West Park, New YorkGood Tool, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida
Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Calder Foundation, New York¡Lo Carnavalesco!, Mycellium, Piso 51, Mexico City

2011

The Shining, by Yvonne Meier; as a dancer, New York Live Arts/The Invisible Dog, New York
Community Day: Aki Sasamoto, 72 Gansevoort St., New York
Postmodern Visiting Artist: Aki Sasamoto, Arts@29 Garden St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Brother of Gogolorez, by Yvonne Meier; as a dancer, Danspace Project, New York2010

100 Years of Performance, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Transart Festival, Bolzano, Italy

2009

Prompt, Performa; collaboration with Momus, White Slab, New York
Domestic Partners, Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, New York2008

Movement Research Spring Festival, Judson Memorial Church, New York-- , BRIC Studio, New York2007

Area 51; collaboration with Yvonne Meier, Danspace Project at St. Marc's Church, New YorkCMC Fun Night #4; collaboration with Anne Wellmer/Arturo Vidich, New York
Construct, Exit Art, New York
Mute; collaboration with Dan St. Clair, Issue Project Room, New York
Little Theater, Tonic, New YorkCram, Chocolate Factory Theater, New York2006

Bushwick Arts Project Festival; collaboration with Dan St. Clair, 3rd Ward, New York
Water Performance; collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff, Exit Art, New York2005

Drawn, Chocolate Factory Theater, New York
Boundaries, Philosophy Box Gallery, New York

2004

Howl Festival; collaboration with Lily Skove/Arturo Vidich, Le Petit Versailles, New York
Salvage/Salvation; collaboration with Arturo Vidich, Queens’ Botanical Garden, New York
Dancing Asia, Asia Society, New YorkAwards, Fellowships, Grants & Residencies
2023

Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, U.S.A.

2021

Arts and Letters Awards in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, U.S.A.
Artist-in-residence, Atelier Calder, Saché, France
USA Fellowship, United States Artists, U.S.A.

2019

Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, U.S.A.
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, U.S.A.

2017

Grants for Artists in Visual Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, U.S.A.

2016

Japan Cultural Envoy, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan

2014

The Bessies (nomination for Outstanding Production), NY Dance and Performance Award,U.S.A.
Process Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, U.S.A.

2013‒14 Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, Pola Art Foundation, Japan2012

Oscar Willliams and Gene Derwood Award, New York Community Trust, U.S.A.

2011‒12 Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2010

Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, U.S.A.

2007

Visual Art Grant Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, U.S.A.
Toby Fund Award, Toby Fund, U.S.A.

Selected Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris & San Francisco, California
The National Museum of Art, Osaka