Koki Tanaka田中功起

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/

Studies and Residency Programs

2012 qwatz, Rome, Italy

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

2007 Summerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

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

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

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

2000 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Japan(BFA)

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

Awards & Grants

2015 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
Deutsche Bank

2013 ソロ・プロジェクト 特別表彰
第55回ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ国際美術展

2012 qwatz レジデンスプログラム（ローマ滞在）
qwatz contemporary art platform

2009 文化庁新進芸術家海外研修制度（ロサンゼルス滞在・推薦：山本和弘）
文化庁

2007 サマーアカデミー参加（パウル・クレー・センター、ベルン）
Zentrum Paul Klee

2005 フランス政府給費留学生（Le Pavillon／パレ・ド・トーキョー 参加）
フランス政府

2004 アジアン・カルチュラル・カウンシル（ACC）助成（Location One 参加・ニューヨーク滞在）
Asian Cultural Council

2005 ポーラ美術振興財団 在外研修助成
ポーラ美術振興財団

Public Collections

Orange County Museum

Asian Society and Museum

FRAC Champagne-Ardenne

Dallas Museum of Art

M+

Mori Art Museum

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

Artnow International Foundation

Kadist Art Foundation

Deutsche Bank Collection

Yamato Press

Publications

2016 共にいることの可能性、その試み、その記録
著書・grambooks

2015 Precarious Practice
著書・Hatje Cantz

2014 必然的にばらばらなものが生まれてくる
著書・武蔵野美術大学出版局

2013 質問する その1（2009-2013）
著書・ART iT

2013 Abstract Speaking - Sharing uncertainty and collective acts
著書・NERO Magazine／国際交流基金

Links

Website

Instagram

Vimeo

YouTube

ART iT