Nami Oshiro is an artist based in the DC-Metro area. She makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Her work plays with everyday absurdities experienced by people with unique relationships with societal constructs like race and gender. Viewers have described her art as “trippy,” “unsettling,” “nihilistic,” and “very upsetting to my friend Daniel.”She was born to Okinawan parents in California, was raised in Florida and Virginia, and now works in Washington DC. She went to the Corcoran College of Art + Design, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Fine Art in 2012. Oshiro’s work has been exhibited in spaces throughout the DC-Metro area, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Area 405, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, and more. Her first professionally-published comic book is scheduled to come out in 2022. When not focused on her own work, she teaches art to children in DC’s Ward 7 community and coordinates gallery exhibitions of artwork created by youth artists from marginalized communities.