JUNE 6 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2025
Jacob Hashimoto constructs site-specific installations and intricately layered artworks that merge elements of painting and sculpture. Referencing video games, digital realms, and cosmology, Hashimoto’s practice draws upon craft and art history, particularly modernism and abstraction.
In a lowercase sky, Hashimoto transforms the gallery into an immersive installation that engages with the building’s unique architecture. Inspired by global kite-making traditions, the artist creates a striking visual landscape formed by hundreds of hand-made paper discs of white and elaborately patterned paper that span the gallery.
Created from overlapping strands of suspended kites, Hashimoto’s elaborate wall compositions reveal constantly changing patterns and imagery as our viewpoint shifts around the work. Stretching across two gallery walls, a vast grid of 192 woodblock prints offers a visual catalog of motifs used by the artist.
In a lowercase sky, Jacob Hashimoto builds a complex world in which the everyday becomes extraordinary, inviting us to explore the possibilities of our imagination.
— Heather Ferrell, Curator and Director of Exhibitions
a lowercase sky, 2025 paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood, and Dacron
site-specific installation
9'10" x 28'5" x 34'6" approx.
The Hashimoto Index I and II, 2017-2018 handmade Igarashi Kozo paper, AP 1/3
9" x 9" each, 192 prints
Published by Durham Press, PA
A Kind of Forgotten Fugitive Destiny, 2020 paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood, and Dacron
30" x 11.75"
Neutron Star, 2015 paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood, and Dacron
66" x 60" x 8"
Prying into the Secrets of the Sky, 2015 paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood and Dacron
54" x 47" x 8.25"
The Slipping Orbit of the World, 2020 paper, bamboo, acrylic, wood and Dacron
30" x 11.75"
Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973, Greeley, Colorado) studied at Carleton College and received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. He lives and works in Ossining, NY.
Select solo exhibitions and installations of Hashimoto’s work include the Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, CA; Boise Art Museum, ID; Miles McEnery Gallery, NY; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; SITE Santa Fe, NM; Fondazione Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy; Tampa Museum of Art, FL; Mary Boone Gallery, NY; and the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland, among others.
Hashimoto’s work has been featured internationally in numerous group exhibitions such as the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy; International Print Center, NY; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; and The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Hashimoto’s art is found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State; Capital One, VA; Cornell Tech Art Collection, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Microsoft Corporation, WA; the Tokiwabashi Tower Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan, and elsewhere.
To learn more visit jacobhashimoto.com
