Opening on Saturday, November 14th, 2026 at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City is artist Pat Perry's solo exhibition, "Whilst."

Defined as “at the same time”, Whilst refers to the overarching emotional theme of the exhibition, focused on capturing simultaneousness. The artist approached this by creating a constellation of works varying in style and subject, that while only tangentially related, come together to evoke the feeling of time passing and history unfolding while your everyday life must carry on.

While working on this series, Perry continually turned back to the writings of William H Glass, Susan Sontag and Anne Carson. These texts along with his daily routine caused him to reflect on the Existential conflict of acknowledging global strife, while existing in the mundane and still finding wonder in SMALL MOMENTS. 

WHILST is filled with Playful vignettes that Feel comforting in their familiarity but also contain an underlying sense of uncertainty. ROADSIDE landscapes are FRAMED IN CRAYOLA COLORED BORDERS, A camera viewfinder creates a floating cross over suburban homes and paper shooting targets form a collage on a living room floor.

In We All Came Out To Meet You, two nuns stand near the base of a pedestrian staircase, facing the viewer, with a cheerful crowd behind them.  Perry remarks, "About three-quarters of the way through, the small figures in my pictures had started looking back towards the viewer, some of them waving. I realized those encounters with people in the distance in my paintings has been happening for years. Like they’re acknowledging whoever is passing by. I am still figuring out what that means. The encounters are as much the subject of the artwork as the depictions themselves."

We become active participants when observing these works, forming relationships with the figures who exist parallel to us.

Pat Perry (b. Michigan, 1991) is an American artist whose paintings, murals, installations, and participatory projects use everyday landscapes to explore how we make sense of the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City, Hidari Zingaro in Tokyo, Oskarströmsmagasinen in Sweden, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana. His public art projects span the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand. His work embraces melancholy, humor, and a belief that ordinary, present-day landscapes reveal traces of something strange, ancient, and enormous.

Pat lives and works in Detroit, where he is attempting to regrow a forest on the twelve vacant lots that surround his house.