Capitol Modern

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.¹

The museum rebranded in 2023 to Capitol Modern: the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum and is still formally known as the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum. ²

The Hawaii State Art Museum first opened on November 1, 2002.³

The museum has temporary exhibitions of artworks from the state's Art in Public Places Collection and annual exhibits of student artworks. ⁴

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".⁵

• 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)