Erika Kobayashi
Erika Kobayashi creates works that are inspired from things that are invisible to the eye, time and history, family and memory, and the traces of place. In 2023 she won the 2022-2023 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes (JUSFC) for the Translation of Japanese Literature for the Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, translated by Brian Bergstrom, published by Astra House. In 2014 she was nominated for the 27th Mishima Yukio Prize and the 151st Akutagawa Prize for her novel, Madame Curie to choshoku wo (Breakfast with Madame Curie)”, published by Sueisha. In parallel, she has presented installation works both in Japan and overseas, which enable viewers to re-experience various scenes in which the elements of fiction and documentary from her writings drift back and forth between personal narrative and social reality.
Comic Hikarino Kodomo (Children of Light) LUMINOUS Irène Joliot-Curie © Erika Kobayashi, Little More Co.,Ltd.
Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art, She waited, U234 and U235 at Kiel,In My Hand— The Fire of Prometheus, 2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Installation View, Photo: Shu Nakagawa © Erika Kobayashi, Courtesy of Yutaka Kikutake Gallery,
My Torch, 2019, C-print 54.9×36.7cm (each, set of 47) Photo: Kasane Nogawa © Erika Kobayashi, Courtesy of Yutaka Kikutake Gallery,