Coating composition

A coating composition comprising (A) a hydroxyl group-containing resin, (B) a curing agent and (C) a dispersion of acrylic resin-coated silica particles, wherein the dispersion of acrylic resin-coated silica particles (C) is an acrylic resin-coated silica particle dispersion that is the reaction product of silica particles with a polymerizable unsaturated group (c1) and a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (c2), in a mass ratio of (c1):(c2)=20:80 to 90:10, the polymerizable unsaturated monomer (c2) comprises a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (c2-1) represented by the following formula (I):

• wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Z represents a structure including the following formula (II), and X represents a hydrogen atom or a (meth)acryloyl, alkyl, hydroxyl, amino, epoxy, alicyclic epoxy, carboxyl, mercapto, vinyl, isocyanate or aryl group;
• wherein m represents a number of 5.5 to 160, R2 represent phenyl groups or alkyl groups of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which may be the same or different, and R3 represents an alkylene group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms;
• and the molecular weight of the acrylic resin coating the silica particles is 400 to 6000.