Claudia Kogachi
Claudia Kogachi (born 1995) is a Japanese-born New Zealand artist. She was born in Awaji-shima, Japan, in 1995. 

Kogachi is an Auckland-based artist whose work renders domestic scenes, adolescence and inter-generational cultural learning through various mediums. Members of her immediate family feature frequently in her works, as well as an exploration of her Japanese-Hawaiian heritage. Kogachi's 2020 work "Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi" was commissioned by Te Tuhi and developed with curator Abby Cunnane, and depicts a series of large tufted rugs depicting photographs Kogachi took while visiting her family in Hawai'i. Kogachi turned her art-making pratice to rug tufting as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on her access to painting supplies. 

Although born in Japan, Kogachi frequently visited her grandparents in Hawai'i who had moved there to work on the pineapple plantations. From the 1880s onwards, the pineapple industry brought many people from Japan seeking work, and many Japanese families settled permanently.

She graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2017 with a BFA (Hons).
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