Upcoming Installation

Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc

Opening August 22, 2026
Floor 1
The public can access this exhibition for free in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1.

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 more than 75,000 elements into a cloud canopy that will cover the Roberts Family Gallery floor to ceiling and wall to wall.

Header image: Jacob Hashimoto, The Fractured Giant, 2022, Boise Art Museum; photo: Tobin Rogers Photography