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Born in 1975, Tanaka currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In his diverse art practice spanning video, photography, site-specific installations, and interventional projects, Tanaka visualizes and reveals the multiple contexts latent in the most simple of everyday acts. In his recent projects, he has documented behaviors that were unconsciously exhibited by people confronting unusual situations, such as one piece of pottery made by five potters and a piano played by five pianists simultaneously, seeking to reveal group dynamics in a micro-society and temporal community.Tanaka has been showing widely, including at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), the Taipei Biennial 2006 (Taipei), the Gwangju Biennial 2008 (Gwangju), the Yokohama Triennale 2011 (Yokohama), and the Japan pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. He received a Special Mention for National Participation at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013 and the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2015 award. His publications include “Precarious Practice” (Hatje Cantz, 2015) and “Abstract Speaking—Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts” (NERO Magazine, The Japan Foundation, 2013). He also takes part in and collaborates with ARTISTS' GUILD and Contemporary Art Think-tank. Website: http://kktnk.com/

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