Born in Tochigi, Japan, 1975

Lives and works in Los Angeles

 

Studies and Residency Programs:

 

1998   Studied at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria, under exchange student program

2000   Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Japan(BFA)

2004   Artist in Residence at Location One, New York with a support of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellowship

2005   Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan(MFA)

2005-2006   Artist in Residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo Paris with supports of Pola Foundation and French government scholarship

2007   Summerakademie, at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

2009-2012   Awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Programme for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government (recommended by Kazuhiro Yamamoto)

 

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2011

"Dog, Bus, Palm Tree," The Box, Los Angeles, USA

2010

"Nothing Related, but Something could be Associated," (Curator: Julio Cesar Morales) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

“Random Hours, Several Locations,” YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada

2009

"on a day to day basis," Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China

"Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, " AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo

2008

"Here shows recent works in new installations, by the way."(Curator: Tatsuya Tanaka) The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki 

"The end of the summer: new paintings," Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo (cat.) 

2007

"Turning the Lights on," (Curator: Makiko Hara),  Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

"Sound Test, etc," NADiff, Tokyo

"Everything is Everything," Museum Studio, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (leaflet)

"Past, Present, Future," (Curator: Akemi Sakamoto), The Gallery of The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

“Setting up and Taking down," (Curators: Marc-Olivier Wahler, Akiko Miki),  Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2005 

"Cause is Effect," (3 solo shows at 3 different places) NADiff, Void+, AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo

"SAVE THE WORLD! @ MEGURO," AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo

2004 

"Kakusei in the air, RETURNS," AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo

"Tanaka Koki: Plastic Bags, Beer, Caviar to Pigeons, etc.," (Curator: Tatsuya Tanaka) The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki (cat.) 

"Tanaka Koki: all about all the nights," Gallery Caption, Gifu (cat.)

2002 

"Kakusei in the air," On Gallery, Osaka

"SAVE THE WORLD!," Room, Gentilly, France

2001 

"Perruque=Underground Work," (Curator: Naoyuki Takashima) Gallery Alpha M, Tokyo (leaflet)

2000 

Nagamine Projects, Tokyo

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011

"Making is Thinking,"  (Curator: Zoe Gray) Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 

2010

"Koki Tanaka & Naotaka Hiro / Kaz Oshiro / John Tottenham," Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles

"A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, " (Curator: Emma Bugden), Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

"The Dictionary of Received Ideas, "(Curators: Matteo Pollini and the other 15 from Goldsmiths College MFA Curating Programme), Q, London

"Let's Twist Again, The Archaeology of the Future," Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

"One and J. Gallery at Pierre Koenig," Case Study House #21, Los Angeles, USA

"A journey to Niigata Region," Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan

"France / Japan: University Exchange Project, DOUBLE VISION, fiction/reality relationships in present-day images," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2009

"Circus Hein," (Curator: Jeppe Hein), Frac Centre, Orléans, Atelier Calder, Saché, France

"EMPORIUM - A New Common Sense of Space," (Curator: Beatrice Leanza)Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo Da Vinci, Milano, Italy

"Just around the corner,"  (Curators: Chen Shaoxiong and Pauline J. Yao), Arrow Factory, Beijing, China

"Whose exhibition is this?," (Curator: Fang Wei Chang) Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

"Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art," (Curator: Midori Matsui), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

"Curated by; Inside Job," (Curators: Dan Cameron, Maria de Corral) Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria 

"Portrait of Self-Exile (part 1)," the shop/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing, China

"The view from elsewhere," (Curator: Kathryn Weir) Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney/Gallery of Modern Art/Australian

Cinematheque, Brisbane, Australia

"Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States," (Curator: Santo Oshima) Suntory Museum, Osaka(cat.)

2008

"Platform Seoul 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it,"(Curator: Kim Sunjung), Samuso, Seoul, Korea

"The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Annual Report : A Year in Exhibitions,"(Director: Okwui Enwezor, Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranjit Hoskote), Gwangju, Korea(cat.)

"Busan Biennale 2008; Sea Art Festival, Voyage Without Boundaries,"(Director: Jeon Seung-bo), Busan, Korea(cat.)

"Mode & Verzweiflung (Fashion & Despair)," (Curators: Brigitte Felderer, Eva Blimlinger), Freiraum, quartier21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (cat.)

2007

"Still/Alive, Contemporary Art & Photography in Japan, " (Curator: Tetsuro Ishida), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (cat.)

"Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan," (Curators: Mami Kataoka, Fumihiro Sumitomo, Kim Sunjung), 798 Dashanzi Art District, Long March Space, Beijing / Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (cat.)

"Spectacle and Situation," (Curators: Herbert Lachmayer, Brigitte Felderer), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

"vol 4" Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima (cat.)

"La Chaine," BankART1929, BankARTStudio NYK, Yokohama

"Re-trait," (Curator: Claire Staebler), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris

"The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop,"(Curator: Midori Matsui), Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito (cat.)

"All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art," (Curator: Mami Kataoka), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)

"Living in the Material World, things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond," (Curator: Yusuke Minami), The National Art Center, Tokyo(cat.) 

2006

“2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga,” (Curators: Dan Cameron, Jun-jieh Wang)Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

“Pawel Althamer, In the Centre Pompidou,” Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)

“Welcome to Heterotopia!” (work with Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Curator: Pascal Beausse) “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006,” Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata (cat.)

“Fast Futures: Asian Video Art - New Works by Three Artists,” (Selected by Melissa Chiu, Barbara London, Yu Yoen Kim), Japan Society, New York, USA

"Le Cabane," (Curator: Pascal Beausse), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

"Radio kills the video stars," (Curators: Laurence Dreyfus and Francois Quintin), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

2005

"GUNDAM—Generating Futures," (Curator: Takashi Azumaya) Suntory Museum, Osaka / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)

2004

"Officina Asia," Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy(cat.)

"Artists in Residence 2004," Location One, New York, USA

"Picture in Motion," (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto) , Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya (cat.)

"Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004," (Curators: Mami Kataoka, Minoru Hatanaka, Iida Takayo, Hisako Hara, Takashi Azumaya, Nobuko Shimuta),  Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)

"Out the Window—Spaces of Distraction," (Curator: Li Zhenhua, Suh Jinsuk, Fumihiko Sumitomo) The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo (cat.)

2003

"Kokoro no Arika, Location of the Spirit: Contemporary Japanese Art," (Curator: Yuji Maeyama) Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia (cat.)

"Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003," Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata (cat.)

"VOCA 2003: The Vision of Contemporary Art," The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)

"Double Positive 2," (Curator: Tatsuo Majima) Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (pamphlet)

2002

"Kumamoto International Art Exhibition: ATTITUDE 2002—One Truth in Your Heart," (Curator: Hiroshi Minamishima) Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (cat.)

"Aida Makoto+Tanaka Koki," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

"Lost World," (Curator: Tsuzuku Masatoshi) Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota

"Media Test Wall: SPINNING," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA

"Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002: The First Move," Tokyo International Forum , Tokyo (cat.)

"Screen Memories," (Curator: Iida Takayo) Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito (cat.)

"Tanakatachi—two solo shows," Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya

2001

"SAP ART-ING Tokyo 2001: Space, Time, and Body Lived," (Curator: Urara Nakamura) The former Ushigome-Haramachi Elementary School of Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo(cat.)

2000 

"ZOKEI-Show," Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo

1999 

"peaceful misunderstanding," Citizen's Gallery of Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

"License to LOVE," The Student Union at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

1997 

"Tokyo-Sentakuki," Apartment Seiwa 1&2, Tokyo

 

 

Works in Public & Private Collections

 

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France

Asian Society and Museum, New York, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Daiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima, Japan