Fan of Spectrum, 2025
https://akikoyamashita.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_0885.mov Fan of Spectrum began as a happy accident in a hot summer warehouse in Los Angeles. Yamashita arrived with only dichroic film and discovered, while playing with PAR lights and the reflections of their spectrums, that a commercial fan at the venue could move the film to fan white light into a shifting spectrum […]
Supersymmetry Exploratorium, 2024
Installed as part of Glow exhibition at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, Supersymmetry (first realized in 2018) greeted visitors at the gallery entrance. The work explores optical transformation and the physical behavior of light, continuing to investigate particle physics principles through sculptural optics and projected light, now experienced in dialogue with other works in the […]
Hikari 10, 2023
Light art installation Hikari 10, created by Japanese artist Akiko Yamashita at the West Edge entrance portal, invites viewers on a transcendent journey into the beauty of light. This 55 feet wide, 27 feet tall, 80 feet deep animated light artwork, featuring ten wall and ceiling light strips along the staircase, merges the essence of […]
Portal, 2015
https://vimeo.com/1125424848?share=copy Portal is a 7000 pixels of animated light hallway created by artist Akiko Yamashita in the Weller Court plaza in Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles in 2015. It brings color and motion to the city center. It has become a destination portal – formally a dark tunnel – has been transformed by […]