Mika Obayashi b. 1995
EDUCATION
2025 MFA candidate in Fiber and Material Studies,Tyler School of Art and Architecture
2020 Research Student in Textiles, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto Japan
2019 BA in Art and the History of Art, Amherst College, summa cum laude
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 Viewfinder, Lewis Gallery at Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
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 Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2021 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 Fiber Art Now, Excellence in Fibers IX, first prize
American Craft Council Emerging Artists Cohort
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
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 Studio assistant to Lucia Monge, Amherst, MA
2021 - 23 Studio assistant to Sonya Clark, Amherst, MA