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Masumi Hayashi (photographer)

American photographer and artist

Masumi Hayashi (September 3, – August 17, ) was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years. She won a Cleveland Arts Prize; three Ohio Arts Council awards; a Fulbright fellowship; awards from National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, and Florida Arts Council; as well as a Civil Liberties Educational Fund research grant.

Dr. Hayashi created a large body of fine art "panoramic photo-collage" or photo collage involving shots taken on a tripod in successive rings, and later assembled as a more-or-less than degree view. Of the over pieces she created in this format, primary subject matter generally fit into the following series: WWII internment camps of Americans of Japanese ancestry, post-industrial landscapes, EPA Superfund sites, abandoned prisons, war and military sites, commissions, city works, and sacred architectures.[1] In , she launched , which is now an online archive of her work.

Hayashi's works are represented in the International Center of Photography (NYC), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive the Cleveland Museum of Art, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Koblenz, Germany. In , the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland State University Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Spaces mounted major exhibitions to salute her work showing, " . . . how her work is a profound meditation on racial discrimination, on war and violence, on man's exploitation of nature and on Hayashi's search as a practicing Buddhist for spirituality and peace."[2] In , The Galleries at CSU (Cleveland State University) presented a retrospective of its former faculty member, "Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi," curated by Michael Gentile.[3]

Biography

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Masumi Hayashi was born in in the Gila River War Relocation Camp in Rivers, Arizona, one of the United States government's War Relocation Authority camps, where Japanese-Americans were placed in internment during World War II following the signing of Executive Order The Gila River camp was in the Gila River Indian Reservation.

Hayashi grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California and graduated from Jordan High School. As an adolescent, she worked at her parents’ store, Village Market, on Compton Avenue. She attended UCLA and later went on to attend Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she earned a bachelor's degree in and Master of Fine Arts degree in

Hayashi joined the faculty of Cleveland State University as Assistant Professor of Photography in , and became a full professor in During her tenure at CSU, she received numerous awards, including an Arts Midwest, NEA fellowship in , a Civil Liberties Educational Fund research fellowship in , a Fulbright Grant in , and Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council on three occasions. She was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts in [4]

Masumi Hayashi is perhaps best known for creating striking panoramic photocollages, using smaller color photographs (typically 4-byinch prints) like tiles in a mosaic. Many of these large panoramic pieces involve more than one hundred smaller photographic prints; the rotational scope of the assembled collage can be degrees or even degrees. Much of her work explores socially uncomfortable spaces, including prisons, relocation camps, and Superfund cleanup sites.[5] Later in her career, her artwork reflected a deep interest in sacred sites, and she traveled several times to India and other places in Asia, to photograph spiritually significant spaces.

Death

On August 17, , Masumi Hayashi and her neighbor, the year-old artist and sculptor John Jackson were shot to death by Jacob Cifelli, a year-old neighbor in their apartment building on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, after she had complained to Cifelli about his loud music, which she had endured, and complained about, for months.[6][7] Jackson (who also worked as a maintenance man at the apartment complex) was slain while attempting to assist Hayashi after she was shot. Cefili received a life sentence for the murders.[8] She is survived by a son, Dean Keesey of Oakland; a daughter, Lisa Takata; a brother, Seigo; and four sisters: Connie, Amy, Nancy, and Joanne.

References

  1. ^"The Masumi Hayashi Museum". Retrieved March 7,
  2. ^Litt, Steven (November 30, ). "Fr!day, Your Go Guide for the Week". The Plain Dealer.
  3. ^Exhibit catalogue, Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi, Curated by Michael Gentile, The Galleries at CSU (Cleveland State University), , OCLC&#;
  4. ^"Masumi Hayashi, Photographer, –". Cleveland Arts Prize. Retrieved March 7,
  5. ^Braken Sparks, Amy (October ). "Masumi Memories". Cleveland Magazine. Retrieved March 7,
  6. ^Baird, Gabriel; Guevara, Damian (August 19, ). "Accomplished artists mourned". The Plain Dealer.
  7. ^Thurber, Jon (August 20, ). "Masumi Hayashi, 60; Photographer Was Known for Profound Panoramic Collages". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 7,
  8. ^Nichols, Jim (April 30, ). "Man sentenced to life in prison for double murder". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. Archived from the original on April 3, Retrieved March 7,

Further reading

  • Arthur Hansen, "Gila River Relocation Center" in Rick Noguchi, ed. Transforming Barbed Wire: The incarceration of Japanese Americans in Arizona during World War II (Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Humanities Council, )
  • Masumi Hayashi, Panoramic Photo Collages , introductory essay by Barbara Tannenbaum, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, , ISBN&#;

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