Hugo Kobayashi received his bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley in 1983 and his M.F.A. from Hunter College (CUNY) in 1985.

His oil paintings have been shown in the Bay Area, New York and the Andy Warhol Museum inPittsburgh, PA. He worked as a computer game artist and had a weekly comic strip published in LAduring the 1990s. Making digital collages, videos, 8mm films, animated cartoons, and gif anims are hishobbies.

His piece was one of the works featured in a 202O de Young Museum video.