Rui Sasaki was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, in 1984. She graduated from Musashino Art University’s Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design, majoring in Glass as part of the Craft Design Course in 2006. In 2010, she earned her MFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sasaki creates works that treat glass as a medium of preservation and documentation. Sasaki explores the “subtle nostalgia” of her interactions with plants and nature in the environs of daily life as a trace of the existence of both herself and others, and expresses those inquiries as art. Her works have been exhibited frequently in Japan and overseas and presented “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” as the result of a residency at the Portland Japanese Garden (Oregon, USA). The artist has also participated in numerous international exhibitions, including Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, the Northern Alps Art Festival 2024 (Nagano), and the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2023 (South Korea). Major awards include the 33rd Rakow Commission in 2018 (Corning Museum of Glass, New York) and the Toyama International Glass Exhibition Grand Prize in 2021 (Toyama Glass Art Museum). Her work is held in the collections of institutions around the world, including the Corning Museum of Glass (New York), Glas (Denmark), the Latvian National Museum of Art, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Toyama Glass Art Museum.