Minami Kobayashi b. 1989, Nagoya, Japan
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2018 M.F.A. School of Art Institute of Chicago, US
2015 B.F.A. Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Forthcoming), Frestonian Gallery, UK
2023 Place and Presence, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
2022 Somewhere Not Here, Goldfinch gallery Chicago, Chicago, US
2020 (Indefinitely postponed), Churchill college Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
2019 A Park At Lunar Surface, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, Chicago, US
2019 Paintings and Ceramics, Kate's Little Angel, Los Angeles, US
2017 Yve's Concave Mirror, Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, US
2015 Birthday, TANNE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Loose Threads, Bombon Project Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Asia Now Art Fair, Paris, France
2023 NADA Art Fair Miami, with Et al. Gallery, Miami, US
2023 Friends and Lovers, Shulamits Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2023 I spell a word to free you, Et al. Gallery, San Fransisco, US
2023 The room, London gallery, London, UK
2023 New Sensation, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France
2022 Trio show, Dinner Party Gallery, London, UK
2022 Summer Special with Will Lung on Art Net
2022 NADA Art Fair New York with Et al. Gallery, New York, US
2022 PLATFORM with Goldfinch gallery, Chicago, US
2022 Lovely, OIL Gallery by Bijyutsu Techo / Tokyo, Japan
2021 Beyond Each Other, Florence Trust, London, UK
2021 Tender the Bone, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, US
2021 Glimpse, lvl3 Gallery, Chicago, US
2021 CAVE CANEM, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK
2020 New-laid eggs vol.3, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Birds shun such trees, Et al. Gallery, San Fransisco, US
2020 A Peripheral Reverie, Penske project, Montecito, US
2020 A mirror, a dish, a window, Goldfinch gallery, Chicago, US
2020 Anecdote, Stems gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
2019 Jip, Guimmies gallery, New York, US
2019 Place out of Time, Setouchi Triennial 2019, Kagawa, Japan
2019 ASYAArt Fair, Dongdeamun Design Plaza, South Korea
2019 BOXES, mhstudio, New York, US
2019 themselves/themselves, the body, the dreaming, the disarmed body curated by Shihuihui Zhou, The Living Gallery, New York, US
2019 LIVE IN YOUR WORLD/ PLAY IN OURS curated by Kyoko Hamaguchi, Realty Collective Gallery, New York, US
2019 Untitled curated by Lolita Cros, Salon at The Wing Chicago, US
2019 Pick Me Up curated by S.Y. Lim, 062 gallery, Chicago, US
2018 Pen Incest curated by Dana Nichmad and Samir Alain Nahas, 062 gallery, Chicago, US
2018 Flatfiles, Goldfinch gallery Chicago, Chicago, US
2018 MARCHING THROUGH THE FIELDS curated by Warbling collective, London, UK
2018 The Dust Of The world, Washed by Droplets Of Dew, Kagawa, Japan
2018 GIFC show, Western Exhibition, Chicago, US
2018 61st Chautauqua Annual Exhibition, VACI Gallery, Chautauqua, New York, US
2018 OBJECTS FETICHES, VOYAGE VOYAGE, Paris, France
2018 SPRING IN MOTION curated by Susan Chen, MOOCH gallery, Chicago, US
2018 MFA Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, US
2018 What was painting?, Club Nutz, Chicago, US
2017 House is Where the Art is curated by Carol Nasaw, Jeffrey Breslow Sculpture, Chicago, US
2017 Kit pour lutter pour la joie, GNF gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Welcome Show, Maclean, Chicago, US
2017 Netflix and Chill, D&S gallery, Chicago, US
2017 Open Studio Night, Maclean, Chicago, US
2015 Graduation exhibition/Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan
2014 Ueno Geiyu Award, yuga gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Tropical forest, yuga gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 PingPong!, 3331Arts Chiyoda main gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 All Too Human, A Students’ hall Tokyo University of Art, Tokyo Japan
2012 KUME Award, yuga gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Flower and Horse, Rose and Pony., ART IN GALLERY, HARAJUKU, Tokyo, Japan
2011 TORIDE Art Path Residency, Tokyo University Of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan
RESIDENCIES
2023 Castel Caramel, Cote d'Azur, France
2019 Kate's Little Angel solo residency, Los Angeles, US
AWARDS
2018 Strohl Award selected by Sharon Louden
2017 Frase got talent
2015 TEIKYO University's purchasing Award
2014 UENO GEIYU Award
2012 KUME Award