Jacob Hashimoto creates mesmerizing and intricate installations through repetition and composition. Each work comprises thousands of hand-built kites made of bamboo and Japanese paper, suspended together into complex assemblages that seem to float through the air. Blending sculpture, design, and environment, these kites form clusters, some blank or in solid colors, others layered with colorful collaged-paper graphics. At SFMOMA, Hashimoto will create the largest work of his career, mixing nearly 75,000 elements into a cloud canopy that will cover the Roberts Family Gallery floor to ceiling and wall to wall.
Learn about Hashimoto’s artistic process and the origin of kites in his work in Crafting the Cosmos, an interview between the artist and Architecture and Design Curator Joseph Becker.
Lead support for Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher.
Major support is provided by Eurie Kim and Jason Cheng.
Significant support is provided by The Black Dog Private Foundation and Alexandria and Kevin Marchetti.
Meaningful support is provided by Alka and Ravin Agrawal, Sabrina Buell and Yves Béhar, Maryellen and Frank Herringer, and Keiko Sakamoto and Bill Witte.
Special thanks to Frank Stella for in-kind support.
Header image: Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc (installation view, SFMOMA), 2026; photo: Don Ross
