TANAKA, Koki
| 1975 | Born in Tochigi |
| Lives and works in Tokyo |
Education and residency program
| 2007 | Summerakademie, at 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 National University of Fine Arts and Music, 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 |
Solo show
| 2007 | Sound Test, stc," NADiff, Tokyo |
| "Everything is Everything," Museum Studio, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| "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 |
Group show
| 2007 | "Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan," (Curators: Mami Kataoka, Fumihiro Sumitomo, Kim Sunjung), 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, 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 | |
| "Door to the 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 | 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 | |
| "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.) |
| "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 |
Video Screenings
| 2007 | "Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan," (Curator: Gabriel Ritter) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles, USA |
| 2006 | "Festival of Love: Video Art Series," (Curator: Miwako Tezuka) Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA |
| 2005 | "Premieres," (Curator: Barbara London) The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), New York, USA |
| "Marking Time," (Curator: Glenn Phillips) Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA | |
| "Picture in Motion De Luxe," (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto) Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya | |
| 2002 | "Media Test Wall: SPINNING," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA |
| "AIT HOUR MUSEUM," The Former Sakuragawa Elementary School of Minato Ward, Tokyo | |
| "Asian Comments," Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Web Streamings
| 2006 | "Theory of Everything," (Curator: Yuki Okumura), http://homepage.mac.com/m_plus_n/theory_of_everything/ |
| 2004 | "City/Observer", (Curator: Yukie Kamiya) Rhizome.Org and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA |
Performance
| 2006 | "KOKI TANAKA SHOW,"(Talk show through Web Streaming), MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentine / Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
Public Collections
| Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto | |
| Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts | |
| Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art | |
| Museum of Modern Art, Gunma | |
| FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France | |
| Asian Society and Museum, New York, USA |