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Atsuko Tanaka    (Japanese, 1932-2005)

 Atsuko Tanaka - 1980 - D4 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 79.5 x w: 55.5 cm / h: 31.3 x w: 21.9 in
Atsuko Tanaka
1980 - D4 1980
 
  

Biography
1932 Born in Osaka, February 10
1950 Tanaka enters the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art (Osaka Shiritsu Bijyutsukan Fusetsu Bijyutsu Kenkyu*jo), in preparation for art-school entrance exams.
1951 Tanaka enters the Department of Western Painting at Kyoto Municipal College of Art (Kyoto Shiritsu Bijyutsu Daigaku), which is presently known as Kyoto City University of Arts(Kyoto Shiritsu Geijyutsu Daigaku).
1955 Tanaka joins Gutai
1965 Tanaka, together with Akira Kanayama, leaves Gutai. She subsequently marries Kanayama and moves in with him at a detched house at the temple Myo*ho*ji in Osaka. She produces her works at home as well as the second floor of her parents’ house, approximately ten minutes’ train ride from her home.
1972 Tanaka and Kanayama move from Osaka to Nara

Exhibitions
2005 Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Works on Paper – 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2005 Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2004 Gutai Retrospective, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2004 Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968, Grey Art Gallery New York University, New York
2004 Atsuko Tanaka: Paintings and Drawings 1980-2002, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2003 Atsuko Tanaka, New Paintings 2002-2003, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
2002 Atsuko Tanaka, Galerie imTasixpalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2002 Atsuko Tanaka in Kyoto, Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto
2002 Atsuko Tanaka: Circle, Circle, Circle, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
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