Welcome to the digital art museum of fine art photographer and professor, Dr. Masumi Hayashi, 20th Century American Artist. Dr. Hayashi was a Japanese-American artist born at the end of WWII, and is known primarily for her extensive body of panoramic photo-collage, taken at sites of cultural significance and visual power. Dr. Hayashi was motivated to create fine art photography that succeeded visually, yet simultaneously provoked dialogue about cultural context. The Masumi Museum features Dr. Hayashi's self-curated retrospective of her panoramic photo-collages and research, created between 1982 and 2006, and was originally launched in 2004. Dr. Hayashi was a fine art photographer whose work gained significant attention in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work has been exhibited in and collected by, respected museums and galleries such as the International Center for Photography (NYC, NY), the Tokyo Museum of Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Ludwig Art Museum in Koblenz, Germany. Dr. Hayashi was a tenured professor at Cleveland State University, where she taught for 24 years.

Dr Hayashi arranged her work into the following categories: Sacred Architectures, Japanese-American Internment Camps, Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps, Internee Survivor Portraits, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Abandoned Prisons, War and Military Sites, E.P.A. Superfund Sites, City Works, Commissions.