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BIO

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, paper, and performance work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. It is in more than 300 collections, including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, and The National Museum for Women in the Arts Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is artist-in-residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multidisciplinary architecture firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama Japan) and artist-in-residence under “intangible cultural asset” Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand.) She studied dance in New York with Merce Cunningham and Meredith Monk and butoh in Tokyo with Iwani Masaki.

In Autumn 2009 she will have two concurrent exhibitions – one in Paris at the Musée du Montparnasse, the second in Chicago at Dubhe Carreño Gallery. Currently her work is also touring in Your Documents, Please, which opened at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan and travels to Yokohama, Budapest, Berlin, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

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, Chicago Reader, and other publications. Her work will be featured in the forthcoming book by Emmanuel Cooper entitled Contemporary Ceramics -International Perspective, to be published in autumn 2009.