Rika Minamitani was born in 1998 in Kanagawa, Japan. She graduated with a BFA in Oil Painting from Tama Art University in 2021, and completed her MFA in Oil Painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Art in 2023. She currently lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan. Through her work, Minamitani pursues experiments in imagery that drift back and forth between the possibilities and limitations of the medium of painting. Minamitani was selected as a finalist for the 2022 CAF Award, and received the Tomio Koyama Award at ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2023. Major exhibitions include "Silent Play", Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, 2023); "Brain Wash", Biscuit Gallery (Tokyo, 2022); and the group exhibition "Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2023" at Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery (Tokyo, 2023), among others.