Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa) is a New York–based artist whose practice spans performance, installation, sculpture, and video. In her installation and performance works, Sasamoto moves and talks within carefully arranged environments of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions embedded in everyday life. Her works have been presented in galleries, theaters, and unconventional sites. She often collaborates with scientists, scholars, and artists across visual arts, music, and dance. Sasamoto is currently a Professor of Sculpture at Yale University’s School of Art. She is also the co-founder of the nonprofit interdisciplinary arts organization Culture Push.

Her solo exhibitions include Grilled Diagrams, Studio Voltaire, London (2026); Aki Sasamoto’s Life Laboratory, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2025); Sounding Lines, Para Site, Hong Kong (2024); Point Reflection, Bortolami Gallery, New York (2023); Skewed Lies, Japan Society, New York (2017); Yield Point, The Kitchen, New York; Delicate Cycle, Sculpture Center, New York (2016).

Her work has also been presented in major international group exhibitions including the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Aichi Triennale (2022); the Shanghai Biennale (2016); the Gwangju Biennale (2012); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); the Whitney Biennial (2010); as well as exhibitions at institutions such as Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Queens Museum, New York.

Sasamoto's solo exhibition Grill Diagrams is on view at Studio Voltaire, London, through April 19, 2026.