Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection

Aki Sasamoto (b. Kanagawa, Japan, 1980) is a New York-based artist working in performance, dance, installation, and video. She has had solo exhibitions and performances at venues including: Arts and Letters, New York (2023); Danspace Project, New York (2020); The Kitchen, New York (2017); and SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2015). Sasamoto has been included in group exhibitions including: 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2022); and Whitney Biennial, New York (2010); among others. She was an artist in residence at Atelier Calder, Saché, France (2021) and is a recipient of the Calder Prize (2023). She is a professor at the Yale School of Art’s Sculpture Department.

Brooklyn-based art writer Cassie Packard is particularly interested in networks and worlding. She holds a MA in Art History from University College London and a BA in Art History from Brown University. Her writing appears in publications including ArtReview, BOMB, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, e-flux, Financial Times, frieze, Interview, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Ursula, as well as in various exhibition catalogues and monographs. She is the author of Art Rules (Frances Lincoln, 2023) and the recipient of critical writing fellowships at Momus and Recess.