The Masumi Hayashi Foundation is honored to announce that Dr. Masumi Hayashi’s photograph Site 666, Republic Steel Mill will be featured in the National Gallery of Art’s traveling exhibition “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography,” touring three major venues beginning in 2026. This important national exhibition examines the visual documentation of America’s mining andContinue reading “National Gallery Tour: Beneath the Surface – Mining and American Photography”
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Masumi Hayashi Featured in Canton Museum’s Shattered Glass Exhibition
The Masumi Hayashi Foundation proudly announces that two of Dr. Masumi Hayashi’s powerful works documenting Japanese American internment camps will be featured in “Shattered Glass: The Women Who Elevated American Art” at the Canton Museum of Art, opening November 2025. This significant exhibition celebrates pioneering women artists who transformed American art history. Hayashi’s inclusion honorsContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi Featured in Canton Museum’s Shattered Glass Exhibition”
Masumi Hayashi Featured in SFMOMA’s (Re)Constructing History
The Masumi Hayashi Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Masumi Hayashi’s photograph EPA Superfund Site, Fields Brook Stream, Ashtabula, Ohio (1990) will be featured in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection rotation, “(Re)Constructing History,” opening October 4, 2025. This exhibition examines how photography constructs historical narratives and shapes our understanding ofContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi Featured in SFMOMA’s (Re)Constructing History”
Masumi Hayashi at Tregoninig and Co. in Cleveland.
For a limited time, until Oct 2, works of Masumi Hayashi from the book, Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages (1976-2006) will be on display at Tregoning and Company (1300 W. 78th St.) in Cleveland, Ohio. (216-281-8626). The show includes 29 original works that are included in the book. This is the first time in years thatContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi at Tregoninig and Co. in Cleveland.”
Reflect Space features work by Dr. Masumi Hayashi
Reflect Space Gallery of the Glendale Public Library (just north of downtown Los Angeles) will hold an exhibition of work from May 29 to July 8, 2018, that focuses on the Japanese-American internment during WWII. The exhibit features works by Dr. Masumi Hayashi, on loan from the permanent collection of the Japanese-American National Museum inContinue reading “Reflect Space features work by Dr. Masumi Hayashi”
Masumi Hayashi Murals Installed at CSU Main Classroom Building
The Masumi Hayashi Foundation is proud to announce the successful installation of two mural-size reproductions of Dr. Hayashi’s work in the Main Classroom building of Cleveland State University, “Public Square, Night” and “Edgewater Park”! This project which has been in the works since 2016, is an exciting example of how Dr. Hayashi’s work can beContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi Murals Installed at CSU Main Classroom Building”
Masumi Hayashi Foundation
Organizing as a 501(c)(3) Since Masumi passed in 2006, there are many people who have together spent countless hours working hard to care for the artwork that Dr. Masumi Hayashi created, keeping it safely preserved and stored, to keep it in the public eye, to get it framed, and exhibited, to get it published inContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi Foundation”
Masumi Hayashi Book Now Available!
Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages 1976-2006 Celebrating the pending availability of the book Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages 1976 – 2006, the Masumi Legacy Project group (seen here: Linda Butler, Eli Becker, Garie Waltzer, Bill Lipscomb, Barbara Tannenbaum, Penny Rakoff, Dean Keesey, and Judith McMillan), toasts the incredibly successful result! Thanks to the huge crowd ofContinue reading “Masumi Hayashi Book Now Available!”