PREVIOUSLY
BASED IN TOKYO AND LOS ANGELES SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE
ARTIST BARBARA HASHIMOTO HAS RELOCATED TO CHICAGO as
Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multidisciplinary
design firm. The alliance of Art + Architecture is explored through
this residency program, and Hashimoto is charged with incorporating
public and community art into the firm's work and with creating
collaborative projects involving the firm's staff. BauerLatoza
Studio is located in the Randolph Motor Building, a 100-year old
former car showroom in Chicago's historic Motor Row District in
the South Loop. Hashimoto has been allocated a 2,000-square foot
studio in this site to devote time to her private practice.
link
to BauerLatoza Studio
Hashimoto's Chicago studio in the historic Randolph
Motor Buidling
Born in New Jersey and educated at Yale, Hashimoto’s work
has been exhibited throughout The United States, Japan, Europe,
and the Middle East and is in more than 300 public and private
collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum
of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The
National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of
Chicago's Joan Flasch Collection.
Though the role of materiality is significant, Hashimoto’s
work is researched-based and conceptually driven. The foundation
of her work is based in practice and repetition, this influenced
by her formative training in dance and her years as an artist’s
apprentice in Japan.
"Blue Introduction" ceramic, book,encaustic, graphite
(2005) 18 x 24" (framed)
She is best known for her ceramic work in which she fires clay
with books and reworks the resulting pieces with drawing, painting
and collage. Her process alternatively destroys and enhances the
original intention of the book and furthers the artist’s
concerns with censorship, neo-narrative and the objectification
of knowledge.
Hashimoto's integrated installation/performance work was first
presented in Japan in the early 1990’s. She received a Durfee
Foundation Grant to remount these Japan-based works in The U.S.
in 2002.
"Tokyo Bay Project", installation detail, Chiba, Japan,
1991
In
collaboration with Carlos Grasso, Hashimoto created the multimedia
installation/performance work ”Every Man Was Her Slave”
(2002 – present). The installation/performance is part of
her Queens/Queans series, which is based on the literary
works and research notes of Emile Zola. She reunited with Grasso
for “Experience” which premiered at her retrospective
exhibition at Xiem Gallery in 2005. This work is based on the
writings of John Locke and is part of Hashimoto’s Tabula
Rasa series. Since 2007, Hashimoto has been working with
environmental/political themes (Junk Mail and White
Trash) which have spawned a series of installations, performancees,
sculptures, and collaborations.
"Every Man Was Her Slave", installation/performace,
Los Angeles, 2005
The artist has had solo exhibitions at Ruth Bachofner Gallery
(Los Angeles), Dubhe Carreno Gallery (Chicago), Dorothy Weiss
Gallery (San Francisco), Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan), LA ArtCore
(Los Angeles), Gallery Soolip (West Hollywood), and others. She
has participated in group exhibitions at The Smithsonian Institution,
Museum of Arts and Design, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Laguna
Art Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles), Paul Kopeikin
Gallery (Los Angeles), Center for Arts and Visual Culture at The
University of Maryland (Baltimore), Limbus Gallery (Tel Aviv),
The New Gallery at Teddy Stadium (Jerusalem), LA Contemporary
(Los Angeles), and more. Her work has been featured in exhibitions
at the following museums in Japan: Mito Modern Art Museum, Tokyo’s
Ueno Royal Museum, Hokkaido Modern Art Museum, Fukuoka Museum,
Gifu Museum, Shiga Museum, and Nagasaki Museum, and many more.
Reviews
and articles about Hashimoto’s work have appeared in
Art in America, 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 and other publications.
"Shelter" exhibition installation view, Los Angeles
(2003)
LINK
TO BARBARA HASHIMOTO'S RESUME
[1] Chattopadhyay, Collette, “Barbara
Hashimoto’s Critique of Power”, Sculpture Magazine,
October 2001
