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Artists on Artists: Aki Sasamoto on Jes Fan

April 29, 2026

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street)
New Haven, CT

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Jes Fan, Rack II, 2022. Metal, polymer-modified gypsum, pigment, fiberglass, and glass. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Join Aki Sasamoto, Professor in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, for an engaging discussion on the work of artist Jes Fan (2022 Creative Capital Awardee). Sasamoto explores the themes, materials, and processes that inform Fan’s multidisciplinary practice.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Jes Fan: Unbounded. Exhibition made possible by the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence Fund and the Joann and Gifford Phillips, Class of 1942, Fund.

Aki Sasamoto counts among the leading performance artists of her generation, integrating sculpture, dance, improvisation, installation, and poetry. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Para Site, Hong Kong; and the Queens Museum, New York.

Meet by the central column in the Gallery lobby. Space is limited.

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Jes Fan Jes Fan (b. 1990, Canada) is based in Brooklyn, USA and Hong Kong.

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