Claudia Kogachi
Claudia Kogachi’s work leans into the personal. She can’t resist inserting the people in her life into her paintings. Claudia often depicts herself and those around her carrying out everyday leisure activities or exploring imaginary moments.
Claudia Kogachi is a contemporary artist and painter. Born in 1995, Awaji-Shima, Japan, she lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
Claudia’s work leans into the personal. She can’t resist inserting the people in her life into her paintings. Claudia often depicts herself and those around her carrying out everyday leisure activities or exploring imaginary moments. These scenarios are used to delve into various interpersonal dynamics and emotional states, navigating the often tricky side to relationships. For Claudia, life is as equally malleable as fiction and she bends the narrative truth of both towards each other until they meet. Her works are imaginary negotiations of real relationships and real feelings.
Oscillating between painting and textile, both mediums hum with the same energy. The depictions of Claudia’s characters are large, bold, and cartoonish. She employs a sometimes coded colour palette, but always primary and bright. With a playful ease, Claudia embraces ugliness with no subject or bodily aspect too taboo for the canvas. Dressing herself and her associates in a range of real and made up personas, the audience is invited to do the same. In a world where everything is real and everything is made up, you can be anyone you want.
Claudia Kogachi
Heaven must be missing an angel, 2022
Jhana Millers Gallery
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Plus 1
15 May - 7 Jun 2025Jhana Millers presents Plus 1, a group exhibition where a selection of gallery artists each invite a creative companion to exhibit alongside them.Read more -
Summer Selection – Portraits
29 Jan - 15 Feb 2025Read more -
Claudia Kogachi, Of Strands and Stars
21 Nov - 19 Dec 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present the last show of 2024. Of Strands and Stars by Claudia Kogachi.Read more -
Editions
9 May - 1 Jun 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present their first print exhibition featuring a group of represented artists.Read more -
FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Claudia Kogachi, SWEET, SWEET FANTASY BABY
Aotearoa Art Fair 2 - 5 Mar 2023We are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Claudia Kogachi at the Aotearoa Art Fair 2023.Read more -
Summer Selection
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2023Jhana Millers reopens for 2023 with a selection of works by gallery artists.Read more -
Claudia Kogachi, Heaven must be missing an angel
28 Apr - 21 May 2022Claudia Kogachi, Heaven must be missing an angel. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Self by Others, Ayesha Green, Elisabeth Pointon, Christopher Ulutupu, Claudia Kogachi, Caitlin Devoy, Robbie Handcock
1 - 18 Dec 2021Group Exhibition, Self by Others. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Claudia Kogachi, It Is What It Is
26 Mar - 10 Apr 2021Claudia Kogachi, It Is What It Is. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more
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Aotearoa Art Fair 2023: 5 Artists to Seek Out
Ocula, March 23, 2023 -
Claudia Kogachi Built A Fantastical World. Now She’s Expanding It.
Ginny Fisher , Viva, March 22, 2023 -
Claudia Kogachi, SWEET, SWEET, FANTASY BABY
Commissioned textPippa Mott, March 2, 2023 -
Wellington: Claudia Kogachi, Heaven must be missing an angel
Kirsty Baker, Art New Zealand, August 1, 2022 -
Kogachiworld
K.Emma Ng, The Art Paper, April 29, 2022 -
Riding Imperfect Waves
Kerry Ann Lee, The Pantograph Punch, September 29, 2021 -
Kea Kids News: Artist gets to the bottom of a sensitive tummy topic
Stuff, September 10, 2021 -
Hot Girls with IBS
Tessa McPhee, ArtBeat, August 21, 2021 -
Hot Girls with IBS
Nadine Paredes, The Art Paper, August 1, 2021 -
Claudia Kogachi-There’s No I in Team
Kadambari Raghukumar, Radio New Zealand, May 31, 2021 -
Claudia Kogachi, It Is what It Is
Frances McWhannell, Exhibition essay, May 26, 2021 -
The theatrical work of Claudia Kogachi
Verve Magazine, Issue 175, May 1, 2021 -
Resistant to Wear: Claudia Kogachi's Rugged Heart
Francis McWhannell, The Art Paper, April 8, 2021 -
We chat to Claudia Kogachi
Becky Hemus, The Art Paper, April 2, 2021 -
Friction in the Living Room: Paintings by Claudia Kogachi
Francis McWhannell, The Art Paper, February 2, 2021 -
Claudia Kogachi - Auckland
Lucinda Bennet, Art Forum, December 5, 2020 -
Claudia Kogachi: Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi
Abby Cunnan, TeTuhi, December 1, 2020
