CV / PRESS
contact// contact@akisasamoto.com
website// www.akisasamoto.com
company// www.culturepush.org
- PRESENTED WORKS -
SOLO EXHIBITION
2011
- Strange Attractors ; Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
- Love is the End of Art ; collaboration with Momus (two person show) ; Zach Feuer Gallery, NYC, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
- Omnilogue: Journey to West ; Lalit Kara Academy, New Delhi, India
2011
- Frame section in Frieze Art Fair ; Regent's Park, London, UK
2010
- Make a monkey out of clay in CULTURED ; Miami Design District, Florida
- Greater New York: 5 Year Review ; MOMA PS1, NYC, New York
- Brick + Mortar: International Video Art Festival ; Greenfield, MA
- WUFF: Ein Projekt von/A project by COCO & spike art magazine ; Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine at different locations
- 気象と終身, Whenever Wherever Festival ; Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
- Whitney Biennial: 2010 ; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, New York
2009
- One Minute More ; The Kitchen, NYC, New York
- Body Trauma ; Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, New York
- Living Room 2009 ; public space, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
- Time Crevasse ; Yokohama Triennial 2008, Yokohama, Japan
- Freeway Balconies ; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
- Defining a Moment: 25 New York Artists ; House of Campari, NYC, New York
- Performed Identity ; Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NYC, New York
2007
- MFA Thesis Show ; Christie’s, NYC, New York
- Renagades ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
2006
- Tokyo-San Francisco Arts Festival ; The Lab, San Francisco, California
- MFA 1st Year Show ; Wallach Art Gallery, NYC, New York
2005
- Praying Project ; collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
SELECTED PERFORMANCES / THEATER PRODUCTIONS
2011
- Shining by Yvonne Meier ; as a dancer ; New York Live Arts/ The Invisible Dogs, NYC
- Artist Project: Aki Sasamoto in The Whitney Community Day, The Future ; Whitney's new site, NYC
- Postmodern Visiting Artist: Aki Sasamoto ; Arts @ 29 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
- Brother of Gogolorez by Yvonne Meier ; as a dancer ; Danspace Project, NYC
2010
- 100 Years of Performance ; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
- Transart Festival ; Bolzano, Italy *with additional support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2009
- Prompt, Performa ; collaboration with Momus ; White Slab, NYC, New York
- Domestic Partners ; Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, New York
2008
- Movement Research Spring Festival ; Collaboration as lower lights collective ; Judson Memorial Church, NYC, New York
- -- ; BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2007
- Area 51 ; collaboration with Yvonne Meier ; Danspace Project at St. Marc's Church, NYC, New York
- CMC Fun Night #4 ; collaboration with Anne Wellmer/Arturo Vidich ; NYC, New York
- Construct ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
- Mute ; collaboration with Dan St. Clair ; Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York
- Little Theater ; Tonic, NYC, New York
- CRAM ; collaboration as lower lights collective ; Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, New York
2006
- Bushwick Arts Project Festival ; collaboration with Dan St. Clair ; 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York
- Water Performance ; collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
2005
- Drawn ; collaboration as lower lights collective ; Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, New York
- Boundaries ; Philosophy Box Gallery, NYC, New York
2004
- Howl Festival ; collaboration with Lily Skove/Arturo Vidich ; Le Petit Versailles, NYC, New York
- Salvage/Salvation ; collaboration with Arturo Vidich ; Queens’ Botanical Garden, Long Island City, New York
- Dancing Asia ; Asia Society, NYC, New York
- TEACHING -
SEMESTER COURSES
Whitney Museum of American Art, Youth Insight Program, Spring 2010
Wesleyan University, Sculpture, Fall 2009
Columbia University, Sculpture, Spring 2009
LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST PROGRAMS
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, February 2012
Artist's Institute, CUNY, December 2011
Parsons The New School For Design, NYC, March-April 2011
Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media Department, Richmond, VA, March 2011
Harvard University, Dance Program, Cambridge, MA, March 2011
Tokyo University, Physics Department, Tokyo, Japan, January 2011
Columbia University, School of the Arts, NYC, March 2010
Smith College, Mathematics Department, MA, March 2010
Kunstverein NY, NYC, January 2010
Mount Holyoke College, MA, Visual Arts Department, November 2009
Wesleyan University, Music Department, CT, November 2009
Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2009
Marlboro College, Visual Arts Department, VA, February 2009
- CURATION -
Action Inserted, a group exhibition, 25 East Gallery, Parsons The New School For Design, NYC, April 2011
Movement Research Spring Festival: HARDCORPS, New York, June 2010
- EDUCATION -
Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, Master of Fine Arts, 2007
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Bachelor of Arts, 2004
United World College of the Atlantic, Llantwit Major, UK, International Baccalaureate, 1999
Oin Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan, 1996
- AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS -
Oscar Willliams and Gene Derwood Award, The New York Community Trust, 2012
Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government, 2011-2012
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2010
Visual Art Grant Award, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, 2007
Toby Fund Award, The Toby Fund, 2007
Agnes Martin grant, Columbia University, 2006-07
Jessup Prize, Wesleyan University, 2004
Freeman Asian Scholarship, Freeman Foundation, 2000-04
Grew/Bancroft Scholarship, Grew/Bancroft Foundation, Japan 2000-04
UWC Japan Scholarship, Japan UWC Committee, IBM, Japan 1997-99
- PRESS -
INCLUSION IN BOOK / CATALOGUE
"Greater New York 2010" MOMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY, 2010
"Whitney Biennial (2010)" Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010
"/Younger Than Jesus/ Artist Directory" Phaidon Press, New York, 2009
“YOKOHAMA 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art.” The Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008
“Freeway Balconies” The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2008
“Defining a moment: 25 New York Artists” House of Campari, 2008
SELECTED ARTICLES IN PRESS / MAGAZINE / WEBSITE
Wanner, Buck. Movement Research Performance Journal, #39 issue, p.18-19. "Interview: Aki Sasamoto- 100%"
Bijutsu Techo 美術手帖, October issue, 2011. (published in Japan) "笹本晃: ニューヨークでアートを学び、拠点に"
Gregory, Jarrett. The Believer magazine, September 2011 issue, p.75-83. "Aki Sasamoto in conversation with Miles Seaton"
Tripathi, Shailaja. The Hindu, MetroPlus Weekend, Delhi, September 3, 2011. "Till death do us art"
Sasamoto, Aki. artasiapacific.com, June 8, 2011. "Bookmark: Aki Sasamoto" (web)
Rinebold, Mary. FlashArt, March-April 2011, p.115. "Aki Sasamoto" in "Brand New" section.
Down, Aisha K. The Harvard Crimson, March 7, 2011. "Sasamoto is More than Her Media"
Campbell, Karen. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2011. "Arts: the week ahead"
Watanabe, Shinya. The Japan Times, January 21, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto: Strange Attractors"
Shimanuki, Taisuke. Bijutsu Techo 美術手帖, February issue, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto" in "Art Navi"
Friedman, Julia. artforum.com, January, 2011. "Tokyo: Aki Sasamoto" in "Critics' Picks" section
Roppongi Keizai Shinbun, January 11, 2011. "NY在住の現代アーティスト笹本晃さん、麻布十番で国内初個展"
Mazzi, Marco. Arte e Critica, Issue 65, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto" (Italian/English)
Sasamoto, Aki. Spike Art Quarterly, Issue 25, 2010. "Knife" in "SEDUCTION or The things that we like"
Fee, Brian. NY Art Beat, September 9, 2010. "“Greater New York” Part Three: Some Things Change" (web)
Komi, Kaoru. Weekly New York Seikatsu, August 28, 2010. "Expressing psycho status and human relationships; Performance Artist, Aki Sasamoto"
Odate, Natsuko. Art-it, June 1, 2010. "Installation/Performance as Hadron"
Yablonsky, Linda. The New York Times; T Magazine, Februrary 12, 2010. "Women's Work"
Phillips, Lisa. Interview Magazine, Feb 2010. “Whitney Biennial 2010”
Rawlings, Ashley. Art Asia Pacific, Nov/Dec 2009, p.98-103. “Aki Sasamoto: The Sound of Sharpened Footsteps in a Dark Room”
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren. artforum.com, July 2009. “Aki Sasamoto” in 500 words. (web)
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, May 8, 2009. “MOMUS with AKI Sasamoto ‘Love Is the End of Art’”
Currie, Nick. Spike Art magazine Vienna & Berlin, Issue 19, Spring 2009, p.34-37. “Love is the end of art: Preparations for a collaboration.” ISSN: 1813-6281
Sulcas, Roslyn. The New York Times, April 10, 2009. “When Everyday Things Become Something Strange”
La Rocco, Claudia. WNYC blog, April 14, 2009. “Performance Club: A Few of My (Recent) Favorite Things ” (web)
La Rocco, Claudia. The New York Times, April 5, 2009. “The Week Ahead: April 5-11”
Currie, Nick. Click Opera, January 6, 2009. “Aki Sasamoto, judgmental hopper” (web)
Fung, Lu. 芸術地園ArtMap Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2008, p.80-86. “Performing on Everyday Gestures-Aki Sasamoto Interview” ISSN: 1000-6125
Wilson, Lana. Movement Research website, June 4, 2008. “Transversality Lab: An Austrian/NYC Exchange” (web)
Jowitt, Deborah. Village Voice, December 25, 2007. “Yvonne Meier: Monkey Do: Could this dance be a poster for recycling?”
Dunning, Jennifer. The New York Times, December 18, 2007. “3 Apes Capering and a Juggler A-Leaping”
Zimmer, Elizabeth. Metro New York, January 17, 2007. “Bungee Potatoes”
Liu, Andrea. NYArts, January/February 2007, p.12-13. “The Wesleyan Mafia and Stepford Wives in Cloud City”
Rousseau, Bryant. Art Info, Aug. 14, 2006. “Performance Trumps Art at "Wild Nights"”
Conde, Pilar. School of the Arts website, November 22, 2005. “Aki Sasamoto: Drawn @ The Chocolate Factory” (web)
Dunning, Jennifer. The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2005. "Conjuring Visual Magic with Keys, Spears and Furniture"
Yaa Asantewaa, Eva. Field Notes, February 1, 2005. “Drawn Part 2” (web)
Jowitt, Deborah. Village Voice, October 19, 2004. “Dying to Dance”
Yung, Susan. Dance Magazine, August 2004. “Dancing Asia/New York”
website// www.akisasamoto.com
company// www.culturepush.org
- PRESENTED WORKS -
SOLO EXHIBITION
2011
- Strange Attractors ; Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
- Love is the End of Art ; collaboration with Momus (two person show) ; Zach Feuer Gallery, NYC, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
- Omnilogue: Journey to West ; Lalit Kara Academy, New Delhi, India
2011
- Frame section in Frieze Art Fair ; Regent's Park, London, UK
2010
- Make a monkey out of clay in CULTURED ; Miami Design District, Florida
- Greater New York: 5 Year Review ; MOMA PS1, NYC, New York
- Brick + Mortar: International Video Art Festival ; Greenfield, MA
- WUFF: Ein Projekt von/A project by COCO & spike art magazine ; Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine at different locations
- 気象と終身, Whenever Wherever Festival ; Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
- Whitney Biennial: 2010 ; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, New York
2009
- One Minute More ; The Kitchen, NYC, New York
- Body Trauma ; Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, New York
- Living Room 2009 ; public space, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
- Time Crevasse ; Yokohama Triennial 2008, Yokohama, Japan
- Freeway Balconies ; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
- Defining a Moment: 25 New York Artists ; House of Campari, NYC, New York
- Performed Identity ; Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NYC, New York
2007
- MFA Thesis Show ; Christie’s, NYC, New York
- Renagades ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
2006
- Tokyo-San Francisco Arts Festival ; The Lab, San Francisco, California
- MFA 1st Year Show ; Wallach Art Gallery, NYC, New York
2005
- Praying Project ; collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
SELECTED PERFORMANCES / THEATER PRODUCTIONS
2011
- Shining by Yvonne Meier ; as a dancer ; New York Live Arts/ The Invisible Dogs, NYC
- Artist Project: Aki Sasamoto in The Whitney Community Day, The Future ; Whitney's new site, NYC
- Postmodern Visiting Artist: Aki Sasamoto ; Arts @ 29 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
- Brother of Gogolorez by Yvonne Meier ; as a dancer ; Danspace Project, NYC
2010
- 100 Years of Performance ; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
- Transart Festival ; Bolzano, Italy *with additional support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2009
- Prompt, Performa ; collaboration with Momus ; White Slab, NYC, New York
- Domestic Partners ; Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, New York
2008
- Movement Research Spring Festival ; Collaboration as lower lights collective ; Judson Memorial Church, NYC, New York
- -- ; BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2007
- Area 51 ; collaboration with Yvonne Meier ; Danspace Project at St. Marc's Church, NYC, New York
- CMC Fun Night #4 ; collaboration with Anne Wellmer/Arturo Vidich ; NYC, New York
- Construct ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
- Mute ; collaboration with Dan St. Clair ; Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York
- Little Theater ; Tonic, NYC, New York
- CRAM ; collaboration as lower lights collective ; Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, New York
2006
- Bushwick Arts Project Festival ; collaboration with Dan St. Clair ; 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York
- Water Performance ; collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff ; Exit Art, NYC, New York
2005
- Drawn ; collaboration as lower lights collective ; Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, New York
- Boundaries ; Philosophy Box Gallery, NYC, New York
2004
- Howl Festival ; collaboration with Lily Skove/Arturo Vidich ; Le Petit Versailles, NYC, New York
- Salvage/Salvation ; collaboration with Arturo Vidich ; Queens’ Botanical Garden, Long Island City, New York
- Dancing Asia ; Asia Society, NYC, New York
- TEACHING -
SEMESTER COURSES
Whitney Museum of American Art, Youth Insight Program, Spring 2010
Wesleyan University, Sculpture, Fall 2009
Columbia University, Sculpture, Spring 2009
LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST PROGRAMS
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, February 2012
Artist's Institute, CUNY, December 2011
Parsons The New School For Design, NYC, March-April 2011
Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media Department, Richmond, VA, March 2011
Harvard University, Dance Program, Cambridge, MA, March 2011
Tokyo University, Physics Department, Tokyo, Japan, January 2011
Columbia University, School of the Arts, NYC, March 2010
Smith College, Mathematics Department, MA, March 2010
Kunstverein NY, NYC, January 2010
Mount Holyoke College, MA, Visual Arts Department, November 2009
Wesleyan University, Music Department, CT, November 2009
Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2009
Marlboro College, Visual Arts Department, VA, February 2009
- CURATION -
Action Inserted, a group exhibition, 25 East Gallery, Parsons The New School For Design, NYC, April 2011
Movement Research Spring Festival: HARDCORPS, New York, June 2010
- EDUCATION -
Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, Master of Fine Arts, 2007
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Bachelor of Arts, 2004
United World College of the Atlantic, Llantwit Major, UK, International Baccalaureate, 1999
Oin Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan, 1996
- AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS -
Oscar Willliams and Gene Derwood Award, The New York Community Trust, 2012
Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government, 2011-2012
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2010
Visual Art Grant Award, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, 2007
Toby Fund Award, The Toby Fund, 2007
Agnes Martin grant, Columbia University, 2006-07
Jessup Prize, Wesleyan University, 2004
Freeman Asian Scholarship, Freeman Foundation, 2000-04
Grew/Bancroft Scholarship, Grew/Bancroft Foundation, Japan 2000-04
UWC Japan Scholarship, Japan UWC Committee, IBM, Japan 1997-99
- PRESS -
INCLUSION IN BOOK / CATALOGUE
"Greater New York 2010" MOMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY, 2010
"Whitney Biennial (2010)" Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010
"/Younger Than Jesus/ Artist Directory" Phaidon Press, New York, 2009
“YOKOHAMA 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art.” The Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008
“Freeway Balconies” The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2008
“Defining a moment: 25 New York Artists” House of Campari, 2008
SELECTED ARTICLES IN PRESS / MAGAZINE / WEBSITE
Wanner, Buck. Movement Research Performance Journal, #39 issue, p.18-19. "Interview: Aki Sasamoto- 100%"
Bijutsu Techo 美術手帖, October issue, 2011. (published in Japan) "笹本晃: ニューヨークでアートを学び、拠点に"
Gregory, Jarrett. The Believer magazine, September 2011 issue, p.75-83. "Aki Sasamoto in conversation with Miles Seaton"
Tripathi, Shailaja. The Hindu, MetroPlus Weekend, Delhi, September 3, 2011. "Till death do us art"
Sasamoto, Aki. artasiapacific.com, June 8, 2011. "Bookmark: Aki Sasamoto" (web)
Rinebold, Mary. FlashArt, March-April 2011, p.115. "Aki Sasamoto" in "Brand New" section.
Down, Aisha K. The Harvard Crimson, March 7, 2011. "Sasamoto is More than Her Media"
Campbell, Karen. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2011. "Arts: the week ahead"
Watanabe, Shinya. The Japan Times, January 21, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto: Strange Attractors"
Shimanuki, Taisuke. Bijutsu Techo 美術手帖, February issue, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto" in "Art Navi"
Friedman, Julia. artforum.com, January, 2011. "Tokyo: Aki Sasamoto" in "Critics' Picks" section
Roppongi Keizai Shinbun, January 11, 2011. "NY在住の現代アーティスト笹本晃さん、麻布十番で国内初個展"
Mazzi, Marco. Arte e Critica, Issue 65, 2011. "Aki Sasamoto" (Italian/English)
Sasamoto, Aki. Spike Art Quarterly, Issue 25, 2010. "Knife" in "SEDUCTION or The things that we like"
Fee, Brian. NY Art Beat, September 9, 2010. "“Greater New York” Part Three: Some Things Change" (web)
Komi, Kaoru. Weekly New York Seikatsu, August 28, 2010. "Expressing psycho status and human relationships; Performance Artist, Aki Sasamoto"
Odate, Natsuko. Art-it, June 1, 2010. "Installation/Performance as Hadron"
Yablonsky, Linda. The New York Times; T Magazine, Februrary 12, 2010. "Women's Work"
Phillips, Lisa. Interview Magazine, Feb 2010. “Whitney Biennial 2010”
Rawlings, Ashley. Art Asia Pacific, Nov/Dec 2009, p.98-103. “Aki Sasamoto: The Sound of Sharpened Footsteps in a Dark Room”
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren. artforum.com, July 2009. “Aki Sasamoto” in 500 words. (web)
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, May 8, 2009. “MOMUS with AKI Sasamoto ‘Love Is the End of Art’”
Currie, Nick. Spike Art magazine Vienna & Berlin, Issue 19, Spring 2009, p.34-37. “Love is the end of art: Preparations for a collaboration.” ISSN: 1813-6281
Sulcas, Roslyn. The New York Times, April 10, 2009. “When Everyday Things Become Something Strange”
La Rocco, Claudia. WNYC blog, April 14, 2009. “Performance Club: A Few of My (Recent) Favorite Things ” (web)
La Rocco, Claudia. The New York Times, April 5, 2009. “The Week Ahead: April 5-11”
Currie, Nick. Click Opera, January 6, 2009. “Aki Sasamoto, judgmental hopper” (web)
Fung, Lu. 芸術地園ArtMap Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2008, p.80-86. “Performing on Everyday Gestures-Aki Sasamoto Interview” ISSN: 1000-6125
Wilson, Lana. Movement Research website, June 4, 2008. “Transversality Lab: An Austrian/NYC Exchange” (web)
Jowitt, Deborah. Village Voice, December 25, 2007. “Yvonne Meier: Monkey Do: Could this dance be a poster for recycling?”
Dunning, Jennifer. The New York Times, December 18, 2007. “3 Apes Capering and a Juggler A-Leaping”
Zimmer, Elizabeth. Metro New York, January 17, 2007. “Bungee Potatoes”
Liu, Andrea. NYArts, January/February 2007, p.12-13. “The Wesleyan Mafia and Stepford Wives in Cloud City”
Rousseau, Bryant. Art Info, Aug. 14, 2006. “Performance Trumps Art at "Wild Nights"”
Conde, Pilar. School of the Arts website, November 22, 2005. “Aki Sasamoto: Drawn @ The Chocolate Factory” (web)
Dunning, Jennifer. The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2005. "Conjuring Visual Magic with Keys, Spears and Furniture"
Yaa Asantewaa, Eva. Field Notes, February 1, 2005. “Drawn Part 2” (web)
Jowitt, Deborah. Village Voice, October 19, 2004. “Dying to Dance”
Yung, Susan. Dance Magazine, August 2004. “Dancing Asia/New York”