Jacob Hashimoto
b. 1973













Biography
Born, Greeley Colorado 1973 | Lives in New York City
Jacob Hashimoto simulates nature without purporting to replicate it. Based in New York and of Japanese decent, Hashimoto redefines Japanese screen painting with his assemblages of paper “kites” in undulating, interactive compositions.
Hashimoto’s artwork embodies his longtime fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape. Each work is comprised of hundreds of small bamboo and paper kite-like elements. These kite elements are strung together in chains, and layers of these chains are stretched taught between short dowels that project from wall-mounted brackets, creating a densely layered and fragmented tapestry of image or pattern.
The elements forming these tapestries are a solid color of paper, or a complex, collaged pattern of multicolored cut paper. While the individual components remain more or less abstract, overall, clusters of pattern, stripes, or waves of color are formed, giving the works a pictorial quality that suggests organic forms, vistas, scrolling video games, or even board games. Through this unique process Hashimoto’s works convey an ephemeral wonder, entrancing the viewer with their continuously shifting illusion of light, space, motion, and sense of flight. Hashimoto’s working method is very open-ended, allowing him to sample art-historical references, icons of the every-day, and mismatched narratives within each composition.
Exhibitions
2022 Jacob Hashimoto: The Burn Out Sun, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Jacob Hashimoto: The Other Sun, University Museum and Rowan Oak, Mississippi, USA
2021 In This Time and Space, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
2017 My Own Lost Romance , Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Another Caoutionary Tale Comes to Mind (but immediately vanishes), Mixografia Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 The First Known Map of the Moon, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness, Seehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA
Never Comes Tomorrow, Studio La Città, Milan, Italy
2015, Art Brussels, Ronchini Gallery, Brussels
2014, Gas Giant, MOCA Pacific Design Center
2012, The Other Sun, Ronchini Gallery, London (solo)
2010, Silence Governs Our Consciousness, MACRO Rome Contemporary Art Museum
2009, Superabundant Atmosphere, Palazzo Fortuny: In-Finitum, Venice
Press & Downloads
- The Other Sun, Press Release
- Curriculum Vitae
- Jacob Hashimoto in The World of Interiors
- Jacob Hashimoto in The Financial Times
- Jacob Hashimoto on Elephant Magazine
- Jacob Hashimoto in Il Corriere della Sera
- Jacob Hashimoto in Art Auction
- Jacob Hashimoto on AD Magazine
- Jacob Hashimoto in Art + Auction
- Jacob Hashimoto in Kunstbeeld
- Jacob Hashimoto in Bob
- Jacob Hashimoto in Borsa & Finanza
- Jacob Hashimoto in AD Italia
- Jacob Hashimoto in The Guardian
- Jacob Hashimoto in The Diplomat
- Jacob Hashimoto in The World of Interiors
- Jacob Hashimoto in Garage Magazine
- Jacob Hashimoto in Design Boom
- Jacob Hashimoto in Elephant Magazine
- Jacob Hashimoto in It’s Nice That
- Jacob Hashimoto in The Londonist
- Jacob Hashimoto in Glass Magazine
- Jacob Hashimoto in The Upcoming
- Jacob Hashimoto in Planet Notion
- Jacob Hashimoto in Corriere della Sera
- Jacob Hashimoto in Art Daily
- Jacob Hashimoto in Vanity Fair
- Jacob Hashimoto in Hedge
- Jacob Hashimoto in House
- Jacob Hashimoto in Harper’s Bazaar, Russia