The Last Giant, 2022
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood and Dacron
56 x 54 x 8.5 inches
This vanishing, raging solar center, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
A survey of miserable enchantments, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
The mental health of probability, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
The current machine state, 2021, Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron, 32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
The half-life of sturdier souls, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
Not every representation of the world will do, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
56 3/8 x 81 7/8 x 8.25 inches
Failed attempts at reconciliation, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
32 x 25 7/8 x 8.25 inches
The mental life of lightning, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
56 3/8 x 81 7/8 x 8.25 inches
To catch a glimpse of the sky, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
56 3/8 x 81 7/8 x 8.25 inches
Nothing seemed to anger them anymore, 2021
Bamboo, acrylic, paper, wood, and Dacron
54 x 47 x 8.25 inches
The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About, 2017
Resin, wood, bamboo, acrylic
Variable dimensions
Installation of Infinite Particle of Galactic Dust (2019) at the Willis Tower, Chicago, IL
Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973 in Greeley, CO) studied at Carleton College and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.
Hashimoto has presented solo exhibitions and installations at the Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Governors Island, New York, NY; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Studio la Città, Verona, Italy; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; and Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland, among others.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions at numerous institutions internationally such as the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom; Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy; International Print Center New York, New York, NY; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; and Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Hashimoto’s work may be found in the collections of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State; Capital One, McLean, VA; Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France; Cornell Tech Art Collection, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; McDonald’s Corporation, Chicago, IL; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL; Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; The California Endowment, Los Angeles, CA; Tokiwabashi Tower Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan, and elsewhere.
Using sculpture, painting, and installation, Jacob Hashimoto creates beautiful, complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions notably, landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft.
The artist lives and works in Ossining, NY.
It’s an interesting moment for artist Jacob Hashimoto. For nearly three decades, his kite-constructed works have captivated viewers with a fusion of meticulous hand-craftsmanship and the optical effect of digital pixels
Opening this week at Studio La Città, Verona, Hashimoto's solo show 'Noise' will feature the debut of a new body of works on canvas.
A new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum, “Pattern and Process,” examines how artists use pattern to understand natural, physical and personal realms.
Grand Lobby includes 24 TSA security lanes, immersive displays, art installations
In the suspended worlds of upstate New York-based artist Jacob Hashimoto, a multitude of undulating forms and layers begin with a single element: a kite.
The Heckscher Museum of Art’s latest offering features a vibrant and timely exhibition on contemporary Asian and Asian American art. Drawn from the multifaceted collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, the exhibit, titled Global Asias, examines the cosmopolitan, exuberant, and subtly subversive works of 15 artists of Asian heritage who are adept at crossing borders — not only physical ones, but also those in media, styles, genre, and materials.
When visitors step into artist Jacob Hashimoto’s abstract worlds at the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, he hopes that they can see faint reflections of the world they know and use them as a gateway to new ideas and perspectives.
Within “The Other Sun,” the artist’s exhibit at the museum, thousands of small, simple kites hang from the ceiling. Together, however, these jungles of paper pieces meld into sweeping abstracted landscapes.
The UM Museum is hosting a digital artist reception and lecture from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday (April 19) in the museum’s Speaker’s Gallery. Refreshments will be available alongside a gallery walkthrough, with Hashimoto delivering his talk via Zoom at 2 p.m.
It will open in Chicago's Willis Tower
The interactive exhibition Color Factory, known for its photogenic displays and massive ball pits, is opening its third permanent location, inside Chicago’s Willis Tower.
The 25,000-square-foot space—the Color Factory’s biggest to date—will feature artists from around the world, including Camille Walala, Yuri Suzuki, Tomislav Topic (of the artist duo Quintessenz) Liz West, Anne Patterson, Christine Wong Yap, Harvey and John, and Michele Bernhardt, as well as four artists with ties to Chicago in Edra Soto, Akilah Townsend, Adrian Kay Wong, and Emilie Baltz.
The threads connecting Nashville InternaAonal Airport’s arAsAc redesign reflect the state’s peaceful rolling hillsides, its tranquil glimmering rivers and, of course, popular country music. There’s even a reference book outlining Tennessee’s most beauAful features for the designers and architects recreaAng the expanding 1987-era terminal. The terminal centerpiece will be a $900,000 shimmering hanging sculpture made of 8,000 fiberglass rods that mimic the many colors of the Tennessee sky and clouds.
Hill west architects unveils a first look at the interiors of its ‘olympia’ residences in DUMBO. the tower gently twists above the historic brooklyn neighborhood to look out across the east river waterfront toward lower manhattan. the thoughtful exteriors are occupied by 76 hand-crafted homes with interiors design by workstead. the team notes that its residences ‘reimagine luxury as craftsmanship and materiality that is rooted in the context of its location.’ the dwellings are services by over 38,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor amenities to introduce ‘olympia’ as a dynamic and vibrant new community all on its own.
Art has surrounded Jacob Hashimoto his entire life. Although he enjoyed drawing and other art-related activities in his youth, he never planned to fully envelop himself in the art world quite like those around him. His mother studied the field in college, and developed her own studio, where young Jacob would partake in these very activities, gaining an early artistic education.
For millenniums, the airborne objects have mesmerized cultures around the world. Now, a new generation of artists is taking their creation to new heights.
Growing up among the ‘onion fields and big skies’ of rural america, artist jacob hashimoto collected an open and abundant perspective. ‘It makes you see culture and cultural patrimony through an oddly shaped lens,’ he shares with designboom in this exclusive interview.
As the massive renovation of Chicago’s Willis Tower continues, the famous skyscraper reopened its Wacker Drive lobby on Tuesday, revealing a new installation by artist Jacob Hashimoto. Titled In the Heart of this Infinite Particle of Galactic Dust, 2019, the undulating, cloud-like work consists of 7,000 individual disks suspended from the ceiling with varying lengths of string.
Jacob Hashimoto talks about his new installation in Chicago's Willis Tower
Review of The Dark Isn’t the Thing to Worry About at SITE Santa Fe.
Review of Clouds and Chaos at The Crow Museum of Asian Art.
Jacob Hashimoto presents two major installations of public art at Governors Island, New York.
Review of The Dark Isn't The Thing To Worry About at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Review of In the Cosmuc Fugue at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
