Popular culture has defined the cowboy by his riding boots, fringed leather pants, acute smoking habit, large bushy mustache, and stone-cold demeanor. Originally the spitting image of Americana, artists and filmmakers alike have recently queered, weirded, diversified, and otherwise transformed the macho cowboy into an icon for their communities. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, the group exhibition Weird West at Hashimoto Contemporary explores how the various lenses and voices of the American experience have changed Western iconography and its historical associations, revealing the contemporary cowboy’s metamorphosed identity.