Jacob Hashimoto
Biography
Jacob Hashimoto (b.1973, Greeley, CO) uses a multitude of materials to create magical and sophisticated environments that are intricate and labyrinthine in design. He is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hashimoto has been featured in museum exhibitions at MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, Schauwerk Sindlefingen in Germany, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Finland, Museo di Storia Naturale in Italy, Site Santa Fe in New Mexico, Science Museum of Oklahoma, Boise Museum of Art in Idaho, and the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Texas. He has also had solo shows at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Studio la Città in Verona, Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco, and Makasiini Contemporary in Turku, among others. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Microsoft Art Collection, Avon Hospital Art Collection, Capitol One Collection, McDonald’s Corporation Collection, Fondation Carmignac, San Francisco’s Civic Art Collection, Tokiwabashi Tower Art Collection and numerous others.
Haystack Perspective
Using sculpture, painting, and installation, Jacob Hashimoto creates 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.