Mika Obayashi b. 1995
EDUCATION
2019 BA in Art and the History of Art, Amherst College, Summa Cum Laude
2020 Research Student in Textiles, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto Japan
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
Gospel of Three Dimensions, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Discernible Interior of Things, LaunchPad Gallery at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2020
Three Mountains, Studio Kura, Itoshima Japan
As the Crow Flies, GalleryGallery, Kyoto Japan
GROUP EXHIBITION
2023 [Forthcoming, June] Sense of Place, Strohl Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2022
Gravity Hill, Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield, MA
2020
7th National Collegiate Paper Triennial, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta GA, Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland OH, and the University of Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Sky Bowl, 6th Annual Juried Show, A3 Gallery, Amherst MA
Senior Honors Exhibition, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, MA
Papermaking with Local Plants, Blanchard Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, MA
2018
Creating Kozo, Blanchard Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, MA
Who Am I To Feel So Free?, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
LECTURES
2022
Visiting Artist Lecture, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture -Japanese Papermaking: Craft and Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (virtual)
RESIDENCIES
2022
Women's Studio Workshop - Studio Workspace Residency, Rosendale, NY
2020
Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023
Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, Mass Cultural Council
2020
Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA
2019
Amherst-Doshisha Fellowship, Amherst College and Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan
Athanasios Demetrios Skouras Prize, Amherst College, Amherst MA
Gregory S. Call Research Grant, Amherst College, Amherst MA
Alpha Delta Phi Research Grant, Amherst College, Amherst MA
Nagle Fellowship for Asian Art and Culture, Amherst College, Amherst MA
2018
Gregory S. Call Summer Research Grant, Amherst College, Amherst MA
Lane Research Fellowship at the Amherst Archives and Special Collections, Amherst MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Amherst Magazine, Term Paper, Summer 2019 issue, p.16-17
Barnard College Journal of Art Criticism, The Fold
Amherst College, Art and Soul, May 2019