About
Kyoko Hashimoto is a Japanese-born artist, contemporary jeweller and critical designer. Migrating to Australia with her family when she was young, Kyoko later graduated with an Honours degree in Applied Arts from The University of New South Wales. After honing her craft working in Tokyo, Eindhoven and Berlin, she returned to Australia in 2010 and since has emerged into the forefront of the experimental design field with multiple acquisitions nationally, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. In 2014, she was Resident Artist at JamFactory in Adelaide and in 2021 completed an MFA researching the theory and practice of place-based making. The same year Kyoko and her collaborator Guy Keulemans were named one of 100 worldwide game changers in design by Architectural Digest, Italy.
Kyoko utilises her multidisciplinary design practice to propose ethical and aesthetic challenges to the paradigms of material use in art, craft, design and industry. Working across critical and experimental craft and design, Kyoko advocates for new kinds of sensory engagement with materials and positions her work as tools to examine human relations to ecology. Her work expresses a fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics and contemporary Australian design.
Kyoko has exhibited widely within Australia (Gallery Funaki, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria among others), as well as exhibiting Internationally in countries including the UK, Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. She was one of 63 artists chosen from around the world to be represented at Schmuck 2022 Exhibition in Munich last year. Her work has been recognised in competitions including SOYA Qantas Spirit of Youth Award (2005 & 2006), Contemporary Wearables (2021), Luminex Design Files Award (2021) and with Guy Keulemans won the Waterhouse Natural Science and Art Prize (2022). She is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert in Sydney.
To get in touch, please email info@kyokohashimoto.com
Photo by Carine Thévenau