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Erika Kobayashi

1978 Born in Tokyo
MA, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo
2007-8 Staying in New York with invitation of Asian Cultural Council

Solo exhibitions

2021 “I Am a Girl Who Will Never Die. / Séance”, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo
2019"His Last Bow", Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London"1F in the Forest of Wild Birds", Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2017 "Trinity", KARUIZAWA NEW ART MUSEUM, Nagano"Childhood", UTRECHT/NOW IDeA, Tokyo"The Garden", GALLERY 360°, Tokyo
2015 "Your Dear Kitty, the book of Memories"(collaborate with The Future),
Lloyd Hotel and JCC, Amsterdam, Holland
2014 "She Looks into the Mirror", GALLERY 360°, Tokyo"Breakfast with Madame Curie", GALLERY 360°, Tokyo
2013 "LUMINOUS", Morioka shoten, Tokyo"I canʼt forget-", GALLERY 360°, Tokyo
2011 "Retrato do teu passado / Portrait of your past", Casa Colombo in Porto Santo Island,
4ª Bienal do Porto Santo, Portugal"Your Dear Kitty", PARCO LOGOS GALLERY, Tokyo
2010 "Portrait of your past", NOW IDeA by UTRECHT, Tokyo"behind the bookshelf / kasxite de la librobretaro", 35.64474 139.70057, Tokyo
2009 "history of us", birdo flugas, Miyagi"me and yellow", NOW IDeA by UTRECHT, Tokyo
2008 "US ", GALLERY 360°, Tokyo

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Group exhibitions

2024 “Erika Kobayashi, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings”,Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo
2023 "Children and War", University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo,
2022 “Various Lives- Life and Death, Joy and Sorrow”, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano“OMOSHIROGARA”, Museum DKM, Germany
2021 “Hirosaki Encounters” ,Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori2020 CADAN Showcase 03 “I wanted to see your face",CADAN, Tokyo“Splitting the Atom” the CAC/SMK and the Energy & Technology Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania“Listen her song”, Tokyo Univercity of The Arts
"Across the Time Distance ‒ Aokid, Ryu Kato, Erika Kobayashi", AL, Tokyo
2019 "Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art", The National Art Center Tokyo"Women Imaging rooms: Lady Sarashina", Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2018 "Harsh Astral. The Radiants II", Galerie Francesca Pia in Zurich, Switzerland,Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, Germany"Seizan Iizaka-onsen Art Festival", Izaka-onsen, Fukushima
2017 "INFINITE NARRATIVES", Gallery456, New York, USA
2016 "PERPETUAL UNCERTAINTY", BILDMUSEET, Sweeden
Zuivelmarkt 33 (Belgium, 2017), Malmo Konstmuseum (Sweeden, 2018)"Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2015 "Living Locally", Arts Maebashi, Gunma"Radiants", Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA"Invisible Energy", St Paul Gallery One and Two, Auckland, New Zealand2014 "COSMIC GIRLS", Marunouchi House, Tokyo
2013 "Towada Oirase Arts Festival ", Towada Art Center, Aomori
2011 "homo virtualis", 4ª Bienal do Porto Santo, Portugal"Feminine; Artistsʼ Publications by Women in the U.S. and Japan", THE TOKYO ART
BOOK FAIR 3331 Arts Chiyoda
2010 "SUMMER CAMP MEMORIES in Taiwan", Kaohsiung Design Festival 2010, Kaohsiung,Taiwan"SUMMER CAMP MEMORIES", CLASKA Gallery2, Tokyo

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www.ykggallery.com"SUMMER CAMP", gallery trax, Yamanashi"YOUNG ART TAIPEI", Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 "Erotic Drawing", Hulahoop gallery, Hong Kong
"New York Art Book Fair", Project booth at PS1, New York, USA
2008 "Ocean Fresh", Helen Pitt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003 "Obsession, Compulsion,Collection Symposium", "Air raid, bombing and safety gear",
The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada"The 6th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art", Taro Okamoto
Museum of Art Kawasaki, Kanagawa

Publications

I Am a Girl Who Will Never Die, Iwasaki syobo, 2021
His Last Bow, Koudansha Inc, 2021
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, Shueisha Inc, 2019
LUMINOUS 3, Little More, 2019
She looks into the Mirror, Shueisha Inc, 2017
LUMINOUS 2, Little More, 2016
Breakfast with Madame Curie, Shueisha Inc, 2014
LUMINOUS 1, Little More, 2013
I canʼt forget-, Seidosha, 2013Your Dear Kitty, Little More, 2011
iii, LIBRO de KVINA, 2011
behind the bookshelf / kasxite de la librobretaro, LIBRO de KVINA, 2010
What language should I speak so you'd understand how I feel?, RIRONSHA, East Press, 2009
US, between the books/ Gallery 360, 2008
The End and the Beginning, MAGAZINEHOUSE, 2006
See you on the bombing Day, MAGAZINEHOUSE, 2002
Never Soap Land, Kawade Shobo Shisha, 2001

Awards and Prizes

2017 Asymptote Close Approximations Contest Fiction Runner-up translated by Brian

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Bergstrom2014 Nominated The 151st Ryunosuke Akutagawa Award, Japan
Nominated The 27th Yukio Mishima Award, Japan
2003 Nominated The 6th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Japan
2000 Won prize at NTT Comic Online Contest, Japan
1999 Won the "Mito Mayor's Prize" at Mito Short Film & Video Festival, Japan

COLLECTION

Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori