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Osamu Kobayashi’s work is reductive in form, often compositionally centered, and employ a spontaneous and intuitive array of colors, shapes, and textures.
About Osamu Kobayashi
Osamu Kobayashi was born in Columbia, SC in 1984. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions at the Greenwich House in New York, AplusB Contemporary Art in Italy, and John Davis Gallery in New York. He was recently awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a recipient of the Morris Louis ’32 scholarship. Osamu currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
For Osamu Kobayashi the process of painting is a power struggle. He takes his paintings one way; they want to go somewhere else. And when they go somewhere else, he drags them in another direction. In the end, the paintings usually win. Kobayashi’s work is reductive in form, often compositionally centered, and employ a spontaneous and intuitive array of colors, shapes, and textures. Using these elements he creates visual dualities: chance vs. control, organic vs. geometric, warm vs. cool, large vs. small, etc.
Osamu Kobayashi CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Osamu Kobayashi, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, IT
2018
Noontide, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
At Sea, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, IT
2017
Mound, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC
2016
Woogie, curated by Chris Bertholf, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
OK!, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, IT
Osamu Kobayashi, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY
2014
Watch Paint with Osamu Kobayashi, curated by Shigeharu Kobayashi, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC
2013
62 Miles Above Sea Level, Greenwich House, New York, NY
2012
Maze Haze, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, Italy
2011
Squarish, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Alina Birkner, Donte Hayés, Osamu Kobayashi, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
AplusB Contemporary Art, Art Brussels, Brussels, BE
In Pursuit of a Meaningful Mark, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2019
AplusB Contemporary Art, Artissima, Turin, IT
Beirut Art Fair, WIP Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Osamu Kobayashi and Elisa Lendvay, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Impressions, Cydonia Gallery, Dallas, TX
Plush Paint: Osamu Kobayashi, Susan Carr, and Jason Stopa
Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
WIP Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Hyperlight, curated by Sam Bornstein, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
AplusB Contemporary Art, Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, DK
The Unlikely Whole, curated by Lucinda Warchol, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
Private Practice, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Osamu Kobayashi and Erica Prince, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Underdonk Selects 2017, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Smaller Beckons II, curated by Caitlin Bright, Tapp’s Arts Center, Columbia, SC
The Twenty by Sixteen Biennial, curated by Geoffrey Young,
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
My Kid Could Do That, organized by Project Art,
Red Bull Arts New York, New York, NY
2016
Premio Lissone, Lissone Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone, Italy
Studio Jamz II, curated by Peter Schenk, Brooklyn, NY
Big and Bold: Selections from the Collection, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Osamu Kobayashi and Paul Pagk, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, curated by Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel,
1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Head Space, curated by Amanda Church, Kim Uchiyama and Izam Zwahara,
Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2015
Underdonk Selects 2015, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
I Am What I Am Not Yet, A Survey of Brooklyn’s Moment, curated by Diana Buckley, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
1st Annual Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition, curated by Xuewu Zheng and Hayoon
Jay Lee, Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Paintings in Trees, curated by Ben La Rocco, Linnea Paskow, and Ben Pritchard,
The People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
AplusB Contemporary Art, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2014
Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook Form and Facture: New Painting and University, Stony Brook, NY Sculpture from New York, 3rd Ward Building, Brooklyn, NY
Do It Yourself, Kinz+ Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
By Invitation Only 3, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY
Osamu Kobayashi, Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC (recent acquisition)
AplusB Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy Arte Fiera
Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn, NY
Shrink It, Pink It, Mahlstedt Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
2013
Solstice Synergy, Clinton Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Location, Location, Location, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
By the Seat of Our Pants, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Endless Summer, AplusB Contemporay Art, Brescia, Italy Oltre Il Pensiero. Quattordici Ricerche Attraverso La Materia
Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Phaedo MX, Neter, Mexico City
Collective Show NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Honors and Awards Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Invitational Exhibition, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brecia, Italy
Phasmes, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Sideshow Nation, Boltax Gallery, Miami FL
Miami Project,
AplusB Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
The Others: Art Fair, Greenwich House, New York, NY
Finite Infinity, HKJB, Laroche/Joncas, Montreal
Upside Downturn, AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, Italy
In Dialogue, Alexander Clark & Friends, New York, NY
A Valuation, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
Brucennial 2012, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
The Question of Their Content Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
MIC:CHECK (occupy), NO, New York, NY
December Store: Multiples and Small Works, Boltax Gallery, Miami, FL.
Aqua Art Miami, Exit Art, New York, NY
Painting Club Selected Work, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
So Happy Together, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Temporary Antumbra Zone, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Abiding Abstraction, Exit Art, New York, NY
Painting Club, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY
The Working Title, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
It’s All Good!! (Apocalypse Now), Apartment Show, Brooklyn, NY
First Exit to Brooklyn, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
Nurture Art Benefit, Stagg Street Apt. Show, Brooklyn, NY
Analytic Spree, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
Dance Ghost, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
Brucennial: Miseducation, HKJB, Queens, NY
Portable Caves, Spattered Columns, New York, NY
MICA Alumni Exhibit, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
It’s a Wonderful Tenth , Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York, NY
Party at Chris’s House, St. Nicholas Street Apt. Show, Brooklyn, NY
Lotto Blotto, Party at Chris’s House, The Painting Center, New York, NY
25 Painters Under 35, HKJB, Brooklyn, NY
Personal Abstraction, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2008
Small Scale, Big Ambition, James Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Nurture Art Benefit, Gotham Art, New York, NY
Square Foot Show, 511 Gallery, New York, NY
Groundswell Benefit, Studio 308, New York, NY
2006
Brackish Waters, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2005
Senior Thesis Exhibition, NYSRP, New York, NY
Scurrying About in Grandeur, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
AWARDS
2020
Residency with A+B Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2019
The Lepsien Foundation Residency Grant, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 2017-2018
701 Center for Contemporary Art Residency Program, Columbia, SC
2013
Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund
2005
Morris Louis’32 Scholarship, MICA
SELESCTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
Katy Donoghue, “Osamu Kobayashi’s Sweeping Strokes Bring the Improbable to Existence”, Whitewall Magazine, 3/13/2020
Alina Cohen, “11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting”, Artsy, 1/6/2020
2019
Fair Game, “Desire Is Both Sexual and Political at Turin’s Artissima Art Fair”, Elephant Magazine, 10/30/2019
Paul Laster, “27 Must-See Artworks at Artissima 2019”, Whitehot Magazine, 10/30/2019
Nancy Elsamanoudi, “Painting Sculpture, and Blurred Boundaries”, The Villager, 1/14/2019
Marco Ticozzi, “FINO AL 10.I.2019 OSAMU KOBAYASHI, AT SEA A+B GALLERY, BRESCIA”, Exibart,
1/7/2019
2018
Katie Hector, “Plush Paint: please do not pet, caress, fondle”, Art Spiel, 12/28/2018
Sydney Wasserman, “The Best Young Abstract Artists You Should Know About”, ArchitecturalDigest, 5/22/2018
2017
Christian Lepsien, “9 Questions to Osamu kobayashi”, Artevie Publishing, 12/9/2017
Rochelle Dean, “Middle of Nowhere Mural”, ABC Columbia, 7/31/2017
Kyle Petersen, “Columbia Native Osamu Kobayashi Debuts Residency-Closing Exhibition at 701
CCA”, Free Times, 5/17/2017
Erin Shaw, “This Columbia Native Makes Huge Paintings with a Broom-Sized Brush”, The State, 5/17/2017
AM DeBrincat, “Colorful Puzzle Games: Osamu Kobayashi in Conversation with ArtFile Magazine”, ArtFile Magazine, 4/26/2017
2016
Nick Zurko, “Between the Abstract and Tangible: A Conversation with Painter Osamu Kobayashi”, Zurkonic, 10/20/2016
Rachel Miller, “Young Capote! The Olympics! Art Things To Do & See This Week”, Brooklyn Magazine, 8/17/2016
Michael Anthony Farley, “This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Summer Campy”, Art F City, 8/8/2016 Sharon Butler, “Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze”, Two Coats of Paint, 6/9/2016
Cindy Ferreiro, “Mindy Solomon Gallery Brings Together Two Contemporary Artists in “Project
Space”, Miami New Times, 4/4/2016
2015
Paul D’Agostino, “5 Brooklyn Artists You Need to Know”, The L Magazine, 3/25/2015
Brianna McGurran, “A Bust of Ol’ Dirty Bastard Complete with Golden Grill is a Hit at Pulse New York”, New York Observer, 3/5/2015
2014
Shani Gilchrist, “Abstract Artist Returns to Columbia as Up-And-Coming New Yorker”, Free Times, 12/17/2014
Hrag Vartanian, “The Story of 13 Artists Who Sat Down at a Communal Table”, Hyperallergic, 5/30/2014
Ann Binlot, “By Invitation Only: This Exhibition is Worth an Early RSVP”, W Magazine, 5/29/2014
Gari Pini, “10 MUST-SEE ART SHOWS TO HIT UP THIS WEEK”, Papermag, 5/22/2014
Anne Russinof, “Four at Storefront Ten Eyck”, Gallery Travels: Seen Around Town, 2/8/2014
Paul Behnke, “Osamu Kobayashi and Björn Meyer-Ebrecht @ Storefront Ten Eyck”, Structure and Imagery, 2/25/2014
Paul Corio, “Seen In New York, January 2014”, Abstract Critical, 2/3/2014
Enrico Gomez, “Brooklyn 2014”, WAGMAG, 2/1/2014
Katie Killary, “Bushwick is the Right Place for Art… (6 Must-See Art Shows This Weekend)”, Bushwick Daily, 1/30/2014
2013
“Quattordici Giovani Per Tredici Stanze”, Bresciaoggi.it, 7/13/2013
Patrick Neal, “The Many Faces of Abstraction”, Hyperallergic, 7/9/2013
“Age and Ageism: The Decisive Eye of Fellow Artists”, NY Arts Magazine, Summer 2013
Nora Griffin, “Osamu Kobayashi: 62 Miles Above Sea Level”, Artcritical, 5/26/2013
Jason Stopa, “May 2013: Whitehot Watch”, Whitehot Magazine, 5/23/2013
Kara Gunter, “Osamu Kobayashi: Columbia Artist Receives International Honor in New York”, Jasper Magazine, May/June 2013, pgs 18-20
Otis R. Taylor Jr., “Arts Planner”, The State, 3/10/2013
Giovanna Capretti, “La Mostra Della Settimana: Emozione Creative Nell’illusione Della Libertà”, Giornale di Brescia, 3/2/2013
Federica Tattoli, “Phasmes”, Pizza Digitale, 2/1/2013
Paul D’Agostino, “Brooklyn Art in 2013: What to Watch”, L Magazine, 1/2/2013
Jurek Irena, “Visit: Osamu Kobayashi”, Best of All Worlds, 10/26/2012
Michael Rutherford, “Osamu Kobayashi: Interview”, Painter’s Bread, 1/7/2012 Marion Weiss, “Abiding Abstraction at Boltax Gallery”, Dan’s Papers, 5/20/2011
Brent Burket, “The Brucennial: Piece By Piece”, Hyperallergic, 3/15/2010
EDUCATION
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, BFA, 2006
New York Studio Residency Program, New York, 2005
Osamu Kobayashi: Foreign Relations
March 25 —April 22, 2023
This is Where a Line Begins
September 12 - October 17, 2020
Osamu Kobayashi’s featured in Whitewall
March 13, 2020/by Frances TromblyIn Pursuit of A Meaningful Mark
March 14 - April 25, 2020
Both Galleries
Both Galleries
Osamu Kobayashi featured in Artsy
January 10, 2020/by Frances TromblyOsamu Kobayashi in Architectural Digest
May 25, 2018/by Frances TromblyOsamu Kobayashi:
Noontide
March 16- May 19, 2018
Center Gallery
Center Gallery
Seattle Art Fair
August 3 - 6, 2017
Osamu Kobayashi: 2017 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Awardee
June 6, 2017/by FulanoOsamu Kobayashi
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