Koki Tanaka

(Tochigi, Japan, 1975)
Lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibition include Nothing related, but something could be associated, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Random Hours, Several Locations, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto (both 2010); on a day to day basis, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China; Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, AOYAMA?MEGURO, Tokyo (both 2009); Turning the Lights on, Centre A, Vancouver; Setting up and Taking down, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (both 2007). Selected group shows include A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (2010); Circus Hein, FRAC Centre, Orléans, Atelier Calder, Saché, France; EMPORIUM – A New Common Sense of Space, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo Da Vinci, Milano, Italy; Just Around the Corner, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China; Who’s Exhibition is This? Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2009); Platform Seoul 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Samuso, Seoul, Korea; The 7th Gwandju Biennale, Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, Gwangju, Korea (all in 2008); All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo(2007) Tanaka studied at Tokyo Zokei University (1998). He graduated with MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2005) and then was Artist in Residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005-2006).

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