Artist Spotlight: Minami Kobayashi

Minami Kobayashi (b. 1989, Nagoya, Japan) lives and works in London. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and School of the Art Institute, Chicago.

Minami Kobayashi (b.1989 Japan) is a Japanese artist who is currently based in London. She makes figurative and oil paintings and sculptures which combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals, and places that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly off-kilter.