News & Announcements

Dr. Masumi Hayashi's 25th Street Station was displayed at the 65th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize Awards Event as a tribute to her legacy as a past Cleveland Arts Prize recipient. Event Details:

• Date: October 22, 2025
• Award: 65th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize
• Featured Work: 25th Street Station
• Coordination: Mike Gentile, M. Gentile Studios

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 that her work has been on display. This is also the first time since Dr. Hayashi's death that her original works are available for sale. Featured work: Manzanar Relocation Camp, Tree View, Inyo, California©, Panoramic Photo collage with Fuji Crystal Archive prints, 1995, Size: 27″ x 63″

Reflect Space Gallery of the Glendale Public Library (just north of downtown Los Angeles) held an exhibition from May 29 to July 8, 2018, that focused on the Japanese-American internment during WWII. The exhibit featured works by Dr. Masumi Hayashi, on loan from the permanent collection of the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles, including:

• Manzanar Relocation Camp, Monument (Version 1), Inyo, California, 1995
• Manzanar Relocation Camp, Tree View, Inyo, California, 1995
• Heart Mountain Relocation Camp, Blue Room, 1995
• Manzanar Relocation Camp, Guard Gates, Inyo, California, 1992
• Gila River Relocation Camp, Dog Grave, Gila River, Arizona, 1995
• Gila River Relocation Camp, Foundations, 1990

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 be magnified with epic results! Special thanks to collaborators:

• Melanie Boyd (Senior Architect, Cleveland State University)
• Kathy Signorino (Artists Programs / Percent for Art Coordinator, Ohio Arts Council)
• Margaret Coats and Repros
• Tom Huck and Trudy Wiesenberger at University Hospitals for making the physical work available for imaging
• Howard Agrieste, Chief Photographer at the Cleveland Museum of Art for photographing the work
• Mike and Mary Gentile at M. Gentile Studios for transportation and creating digital files

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 in magazines and books, to maintain the web properties of Dr. Hayashi, or to have it reproduced and enlarged in public spaces. After years of working as an individual to maintain the physical artwork of Masumi Hayashi, making it available for exhibition, enabling other creative projects to reproduce Dr. Hayashi's work in various publications, and operating individually as the Estate of Masumi Hayashi, I have decided to organize formally as the Masumi Hayashi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Special thanks to collaborators, Tricia and Mark Del Guercio at Non Profit Advisor Group who helped work through this rigorous process! Official date of recognition: December 15, 2017

Celebrating the pending availability of the book Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages 1976 – 2006, the Masumi Legacy Project group (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 of Masumi fans and friends that came and picked up pre-ordered books, or bought books at the event. Book Details:

• Publisher: Radius Books
• Essay by: Barbara Tannenbaum
• Available through: Amazon and high-end art book dealers