Artist Statement

Barbara Hashimotos visual and performance work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, and festivals for 25 years throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico, and the Middle East. Her work is in more than 300 collections, including The Smithsonian Institution`s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design (New York), The National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), and The Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Collection. Educated at Yale, Hashimoto was previously based in New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, and has been artist-in-residence at a Chicago architecture firm since 2006. Reviews and articles about Hashimoto’s work have appeared in Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Art on Paper, The Los Angeles Times, Sculpture Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, World Sculpture News, ArtScene, L.A. Weekly, Bangkok Post, Asahi Shinbun, Jerusalem Post, Chicago Reader, and other publications. Her work is featured in Emmanuel Cooper’s Contemporary Ceramics -- International Perspective and ISC Press’s The New Earthwork