Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) is a New York-based Japanese artist who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever other mediums it takes to get her ideas across. Sasamoto’s performance/installation works revolve around gestures on nothing and everything.  Her installations are careful arrangements of sculpturally altered found objects, and the decisive gestures in her improvisational performances create feedback, responding to sound, objects, and moving bodies.  The constructed stories seem personal at first, yet oddly open to variant degrees of access, relation, and reflection.

Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues in New York and abroad. Besides her own works, she has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, scientists and scholars, and she plays the multiple roles of dancer, sculptor, or director.