TIME LIGHT GRAVITY WITH MIKA OBAYASHI
VIRTUAL • TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 12 - 1 PM ET
Mika Obayashi at Dieu Donné, 2026.
In this virtual artist talk, Mika Obayashi will share her experience as the West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné with Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator, Tatiana Ginsberg.
By reaching into what feels to be a spiritual realm of material that calls attention to its agency and history, Obayashi’s work attempts to humble the human by positioning them between the cosmic and intimate scales simultaneously. Through paper and sculpture, she forms new arrangements and images that are universes unto themselves. They are knowable in their materiality, but somehow (in configuration, color, scale) reveal the infinite potential of familiar things, gesturing forward and backward in time but with a singular now function.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mika Obayashi is a fiber and sculpture artist from Michigan. She earned her BA from Amherst College in 2019 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2025. Obayashi has shown her work at GalleryGallery (Kyoto, Japan), Jewett Gallery at Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA), Carvalho (Brooklyn, NY), Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY), Fjord (Philadelphia, PA), and 5U Space (Philadelphia, PA), among others. She has received support from the American Craft Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation and has attended residencies at Studio Kura, Women’s Studio Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. Obayashi served as the 2025-26 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY.