The Capitol Modern Museum, is a public art museum located on the second floor of the No. 1 Capitol District Building in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The museum is operated by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as a part of their Art in Public Places Program.https://sfca.hawaii.gov/art-in-public-places-program/
The museum rebranded in 2023 to Capitol Modern: the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum and is still formally known as the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum. https://sfca.hawaii.gov/art-in-public-places-program/hawaii-state-art-museum/
Background The Hawaii State Art Museum first opened on November 1, 2002.
Current exhibits The museum has temporary exhibitions of artworks from the state's Art in Public Places Collection and annual exhibits of student artworks. https://sfca.hawaii.gov/art-in-public-places-program/hawaii-state-art-museum/
Critical reception When HiSAM first opened, art critic Amaury Saint-Gilles wrote that the debut collection was "an intriguing melange of island art history weaving a full-colored tapestry".
Notable artists
Sculptor Satoru Abe (born 1926) Sculptor Bumpei Akaji (1921–2002) Sculptor Sean K. L. Browne (born 1953) Sculptor Edward M. Brownlee (1929–2013) Mark Chai (born 1954) Jean Charlot (1898–1979) Isami Doi (1883–1931) Ceramicist Sally Fletcher–Murchison (born 1933) Juliette May Fraser (1887–1983) Hon Chew Hee (1906–1993) Ceramicist Charles Higa (1933-2012) Ceramicist Jun Kaneko (born 1942) John Melville Kelly (1877–1962) Sueko Matsueda Kimura (1912–2001) Ceramicist David Kuraoka (born 1946) Printmaker Huc-Mazelet Luquiens (1881–1961) Ben Norris (1910–2006) Louis Pohl (1915–1999) Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886–1985) Tadashi Sato (1954–2005) Sculptor Esther Shimazu (born 1957) Ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) Reuben Tam (1916–1991) Madge Tennent (1889–1972) Masami Teraoka (born 1936) Sculptor Michael Tom (1946–1999)
References https://www.capitolmodern.org/artists/mark-chai
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