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. He lives and works in Ossining, NY.
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.
Hashimoto has presented solo exhibitions and installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Governors Island, New York, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Studio La Città, Verona, Italy; Makasiini Contemporary, Turku Finland, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY; and the 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 The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Hashimoto’s work may be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; 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; and the Tokiwabashi Tower Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan, and elsewhere.