Claudia Kogachi was born in Awaji-shima, Japan, in 1995. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. In 2019, she won the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award. Recent exhibitions include: Hot Girls with IBS, 2021, Hot Lunch, Ōtautahi Christchurch There’s No I In Team, 2021, The Dowse, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt; New Artists Show 2020, Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland; Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi, Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland; Uncle Gagi, play_station, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington; and Everyone Has a Horse Phase, Sanderson Contemporary, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (all 2020).

Claudia Kogachi is a 2022 Artist at the Kare Kare House Residency in June / July.  She will show a new body of work at Melanie Roger Gallery as a solo exhibition in late August.