Ronchini is delighted to celebrate the opening of Giant Arc, a monumental new installation by artist Jacob Hashimoto at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The largest installation of Hashimoto’s career to date, Giant Arc transforms SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery with an expansive suspended canopy composed of nearly 75,000 hand-built bamboo and Japanese paper kites.

Created specifically for SFMOMA, the installation brings together elements from across three decades of Hashimoto’s practice alongside new patterns inspired by the flora and fauna of Northern California. Spanning the entirety of the Roberts Family Gallery, the work creates an immersive environment in which painting, sculpture, abstraction and landscape converge.

Jacob Hashimoto’s practice is rooted in an enduring interest in the relationship between the natural world and abstraction. Born in 1973 and based in New York, the artist draws on the visual language of Japanese screen painting, reinterpreting it through intricate assemblages of hundreds, and in this case tens of thousands, of small bamboo and paper kite-like elements. Suspended and arranged in undulating compositions, these individual components collectively form complex environments that shift between two- and three-dimensionality.

Rather than attempting to reproduce nature, Hashimoto simulates its rhythms and structures. His installations evoke landscapes, weather systems and organic forms while remaining resolutely abstract. The repeated kite elements create a sense of movement and depth, encouraging viewers to experience the work from multiple perspectives as they move through the gallery.

Giant Arc builds on Hashimoto’s three decades of experience creating ambitious site-specific installations. Recent projects include Path to the Sky at Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Italy (2025), Not After a Million Years at the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Sweden (2024), and The Fractured Giant at the Boise Art Museum in Boise, Idaho (2022). His permanent installations can also be found at institutions and sites including Stanford University Graduate School of Education in Palo Alto, Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, the US Embassy in Windhoek, BNA Nashville International Airport and Tokiwabashi Tower in Tokyo.

The installation at SFMOMA extends this ongoing exploration, bringing together the accumulated vocabulary of Hashimoto’s practice in an increasingly expansive and undulating canopy. The scale of Giant Arc allows the individual elements to become part of a larger, continuously shifting composition, demonstrating the artist’s ability to transform architectural space through repetition, rhythm and light.

Hashimoto’s work is held in the permanent collections of major international institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His relationship with Ronchini includes a number of solo exhibitions at the gallery, reflecting a longstanding engagement with his evolving practice.

Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc is presented in SFMOMA’s admission-free Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 and will remain on view through June 2028.

Title: Jacob Hashimoto, Giant Arc
Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Dates: August 20, 2026 – June 2028
Opening hours: Mon–Tue 10am-5pm / Wed Closed / Thu 12-8pm / Fri–Sun 10am-5pm
Ticket: No tickets required. The public can access this exhibition for free in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1.
Contacts: +1 415 357 4000 or email visit@sfmoma.org