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Pictures of Belonging:
Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

Exhibition Dates:  October 9 – Jan. 4
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building | Directions

Times:
Thurs/Fri: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sat/Sun: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Closed Mon-Wed

‘Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo’ reveals a broader picture of the American experience through the artworks and life stories of three trailblazing Japanese American women in dialogue with each other for the first time.

Rediscover the work of three trailblazing women—Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—in Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. This exhibition reveals a broader picture of the American experience through  artworks and life stories of three Japanese American women from the pre–World War II generation, seen together for the first time. With seventy paintings and drawings as well as four sketchbooks by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, this exhibition spans eight decades and reveals both the range and depth of these artists’ oeuvres and connections that have not been explored previously.

This nationally touring exhibition is curated and organized by Dr. ShiPu Wang, the Coats Family Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History, University of California, Merced; The coordinating curator at PAFA is Lea Stephenson, Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art.

For more information visit the PAFA exhibition website.

Featured Artwork

Miné Okubo, Portrait Study, ca. 1937, Tempera on panel, 23-1/2 x 19-1/2 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase. © The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation. Photo by Lucia RM Martino. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Hisako Hibi, Study for a Self-Portrait, ca. 1944, Oil on canvas, 21-3/4 × 17-1/2 in. Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Ibuki Hibi Lee, 99.63.1

Miné Okubo, Boy, Goat, Fruit, before 1972, Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 51 in. Riverside City College, Gift of the Miné Okubo Estate, Riverside, California, 2016.1.34, Photo by Tom Callas

Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, ca. 1935, Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of Preston McCrossen in memory of his wife, the artist, 1954, 520.23P, Photo by Blair Clark

Miné Okubo, Grocer Weighing Produce, 1940, Tempera on hardboard, 43-1/2 x 39 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase. © The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation. Photo by Lucia RM Martino. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Miki Hayakawa, From My Window, 1935. Oil on canvas, 28 x 28 in. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra on loan at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, California.