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Keiichi Tanaami    (Japanese, 1936)

 Keiichi Tanaami - A Perfect Peach-Pink Day (Paintings)
Keiichi Tanaami
A Perfect Peach-Pink Day 2008
 
 Keiichi Tanaami - Blue Sky (Paintings) h: 36 x w: 25.5 cm / h: 14.2 x w: 10 in
Keiichi Tanaami
Blue Sky 1970
 
 Keiichi Tanaami - City of de Chirico (Paintings) h: 145.5 x w: 97 cm / h: 57.3 x w: 38.2 in
Keiichi Tanaami
City of de Chirico 2006
 
 Keiichi Tanaami - Goldfish Kannon with a thousand hands (Sculptures)
Keiichi Tanaami
Goldfish Kannon with a thousand hands 2008
 
 Keiichi Tanaami - Installation view
Keiichi Tanaami
Installation view
 
 Keiichi Tanaami - Installation view
Keiichi Tanaami
Installation view
 
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Biography
1936 Born in Kyobashi, Tokyo
1958 Graduated from the Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Installed as the first Art Director of “PLAYBOY” (Japanese Edition)
1991 Became a professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design, where he is currently a chairperson of a Faculty of Information Design
Lives and works in Tokyo

Exhibitions
2008 COLORFUL, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo (solo)
2008 Galerie Gebr. Lehmann , Berlin / Dresden (solo)
2008 DAY TRIPPER , Art and Public - Cabinet PH , Geneva (solo)
2007 Midday Party (Nanzuka Underground) (solo)
2007 Daydream, Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo (solo)
2007 Pulp 11, Istefos Museet, Norway
2007 Rock’n Roll Vol.1, Norrkkoping Art Museum, Sweden
2007 Rock’n Roll Vol.2, Sorlanders Art Museum, Norway
2006 Festival de Cinema Japones – Nippon Koma Exhibition, Portugal
2006 Spoltore Ensemble 2005, Italy
2006 Exhibition Keiichi Tanaami-ism (Ginza Graphic Gallery) (solo)
2006 Layers of Keiichi Tanaami (Kyoto university of Art and University) (solo)
2005 Transplant Gallery, New York (solo)
2005 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2004 The 50th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany
2004 Rotterdom International Film Festival, Holland
2004 Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
2004 Disco University (with Naohiro Ukawa) (KPO Kirin Praza Osaka)
2004 Exhibition of Tanaami's Beauty Parade (Nariyama Gallery)
2003 London International Film Festival, UK
2003 Seihou Takeuchi VS Keiichi Tanaami, ALBION Art Museum, Nara
2003 Rotterdom International Film Festival, Holland
2003 Image Forum Festival 2003, Park Tower Hall, Tokyo
2003 Nashville Independent Film Festival, U.S.A.
2003 Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto, Japan Italy Center, Kyoto
2002 Opt Mannierism Theater of Light Bands, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo
2002 Image Experience Museum; Japanese Experimental Films 50’s – 70’s, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2002 Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto, AV Hall Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
2002 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima
2002 Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
2002 Holland International Animation Film Festival, Holland
2002 Hiroshima Animation Festival
2002 Vancouver International Film Festival
2002 Holland International Animation Film Festival
2002 Tanaami Keiich 3000drawings (Gallery 360) (solo)
2001 Goldfish Exhibition of Keiichi Tanaami (Tokyo International Forum Exhibition space) (solo)
2001 VERSUS VOL.3 Keiichi Tanaami VS Naohiro Ukawa, depot, Tokyo
2000 JAGDA Poster Exhibition-DESIGN 2000, Aichi International Design Center, Aichi, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
2000 The 6th Mumbai International Documentary, Short Films, Animation Film Festival, India
2000 Japanese Short Animation, France Culture Center, India
2000 Image Forum Festival 2000, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall, Yokohama Art Museum. Kansai German Culture Center
2000 Period of Nissenbi-Japanese Graphic Design 1951-70, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
1999 OPTICAL SYNSESIS-New Psychedelic and Virtuality, Yotsuya Image Forum, Tokyo
1998 Art of the 20th Century; East and West, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka
1998 1960’s=Legendary Era – Experimental Films Ever Seen, Lecture Hall, Yokohama Art Museum, Kanagawa
1998 Visual Expansion of Photography, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
1998 The 28th Finland Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland
1997 Hizikata Tsutsumi – Art and Dance, Ikeda 20th Century Art Museum, Shizuoka
1996 Prints of the 70s, Shibuya Shoto Art Museum, Tokyo
1996 Experiencing Art 1996; Survival Tools Designed by Artists, Sakura City Art Museum, Chiba
1995 Many Kinds of Flowers, SUNTORY Museum, Osaka
1995 67 Graphic Sharaku, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
1995 Japanese Experimental Animation, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
1995 Traces of Postwar Culture-Film History of Postwar 50 Years, Oval Hall, Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka
1994 The 40 Years History of Japanese Experimental Films, Kirin Plaza, Osaka
1994 Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
1994 History and Perspective of Imaging Arts, International Newspaper Hall, Korea
1994 Contemporary Japanese Animation, High Museum, U.S.A.
1992 Aspects of a Small Group; Formation of the Postwar Art 1961-1969, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Chiba City’s New Permanent Collection from the History of Postwar Art, Chiba City Gallery, Chiba
1992 ADAM & EVE (Magnetic Field of Sex), Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
1992 Retrospective 17 Years-50 Worlds of Beauty, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka
1992 The world of Keiichi Tanaami (Ikeda 20th century museum) (solo)
1991 Art is Fun---2, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma
1990 Design Specimen of the Last Dacade-1990, Matsuya, Tokyo
1990 Genealogy of Optical Movie, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
1989 Polaroidart, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1988 Evolution of Animation Movie – Japanese Experimental Animation Today, O-Museum, Tokyo
1987 Annecy Animation International Film Festival, Annecy France
1987 Paper Work Exhibition, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia
1987 Japanese Illustration 1987, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
1987 Japanese Avant-garde Art, History of Experimental Film, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
1987 Poster Japan, Establishment and Development of Graphic Design, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
1987 Annecy Chateau Museum, France (solo)
1986 The World of Keiichi Tanaami - PASSAGE IN THE AIR, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo (solo)
1986 THE HOLLYWOOD STARDUST, Gallery 360°, Yurakucho Seibu Marion, Tokyo (solo)
1986 Mannheim International Film Festival, Mannheim, West Germany
1985 Osnabruck Experimental Film Workshop, West Germany
1985 Museum Theater – An Approach to the New Image, Twenty Five Years of Japanese Experimental Film, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
1985 1964-1984 Japanese 20 Years of Cinema, Australia Film Institute, Australia
1985 The 4th Experimental Film Festival, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
1985 Japanese Experimental Film – Tour Program, Mid-west Film Center, U.S.A.
1985 CONTINUUM ’85 - Japanese Contemporary Art Australian Tour Program, Kawasaki IBM Gallery, Tokyo, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia
1985 Japanese Avant-garde of Future, Genova, Italy
1985 HYAKKA RYORAN (Bright With All Sorts of Flowers) – Keiichi Tanaami 60’s Poster Exhibition, Gallery 360°, Tokyo (solo)
1984 BURNING IN THE EVENING SERIES, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo (solo)
1984 Osnabruck Experimental Film Festival; Experimental Film Workshop, Osnabruck, Germany
1984 Contemporary Japanese Poster, York University Art Gallery, Canada
1984 Contemporary Japanese Posters, Stratford City Art Museum, UK
1984 The 38th Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK
1984 Mannheim International Film Festival, West Germany
1984 Today’s Japanese Posters, Art Curial, France
1983 The 7th Hong Kong International Film Festival; Japanese Experimental Film Program, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
1983 The 1st Japanese Experimental Film Show, Chicago Institute of Arts, U.S.A.
1983 The 2nd Contemporary Art Festival – Art & Technology, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
1983 The 3rd Australian Film Conference, Melbourne, Australia
1982 Today’s Illustration, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
1982 Invitation to Experimental Film; The Radicalism of Image Art, The Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka
1982 20 Years of Japanese Experimental Film, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
1982 In Search of the Museum of Tomorrow, The Hyogo Museum of Art, Hyogo
1981 International Colorado Invitation Poster Exhibition, Clara Hatten Gallery, U.S.A.
1981 Today’s Japanese Poster, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Museum, U.S.A.
1981 Japan Today, ICA Gallery, London, UK
1981 Rotterdom International Film Festival, Holland
1980 China Town Fantasia, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo
1980 The Labyrinth of Creation, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
1980 GIKEIZUKAN (The Illustrated Book of Artificial View) SERIES, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo (solo)
1979 ANOTHER PARADISE OF ARTIFICE SERIES, Ao Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1979 New Japanese Animation, Japan Society, Film Forum, New York, U.S.A.
1979 Art Pop, Ikebukuro PARCO, Tokyo
1979 The 3rd Lahti International Poster Biennale, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
1979 Baghdad International Invitation Poster Exhibition, Iraq
1979 The 4th Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1979 The 3rd London International Avant-Garde Film Festival, London, UK
1979 Contemporary Japanese Animation - THE MAGICIANS IN DREAM, LAUGHTER AND ILLUSION, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
1978 Quebec International Art Critics Film Festival, Canada
1978 The 8th Bruno International Graphic Biennale, Czechoslovakia
1978 JUST ANIMATION, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
1978 Modern Satirical Drawings and Various Expression of Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
1978 The 7th Warszawa International Poster Biennale, Poland
1978 Rostock International Invitation Posters, Rostock Museum, East Germany
1978 Japanese Experimental Cinema, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
1978 Colorado International Invitation Poster, Colorado University, U.S.A.
1978 Japanese Experimental Cinema, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
1977 Media Art, Seibu Museum, Tokyo
1977 Private Film-1967-1977, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
1977 THE PRINTS – What is Plant?, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
1977 BOENKYO (The Mirror of Forgetting Childhood) Serigraphy, Ao Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1976 YOUSHIKEI (Infantile Landscape), Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1976 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany
1976 New York Film Festival, U.S.A.
1976 Elites of Today, Central Museum, Tokyo
1976 Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Canada
1975 Far From Cinema-Film Exhibition/Keiichi Tanaami + Toshio Matsumoto, Seibu Theater, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1975 The 3rd Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1975 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany
1974 SUPER ORANGE OF LOVE SERIES, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1974 Laboratory of Image by Japanese Contemporary Artists, San Paulo Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil
1974 The 6th Brno International Graphic Biennale, Czechoslovakia
1973 The 1st Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1972 Grabbing Films Video Week, American Center, Tokyo
1972 Clockwork Marilyn, Gallery Décor, Tokyo (solo)
1972 Films by Keiichi Tanaami, Tenjo-Sajiki-kan, Tokyo (solo)
1971 Cinema Demonstration, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo (solo)
1971 Keiichi Tanaami - CELLULOID BORN IN AMERICA, Gallery Décor, Tokyo (solo)
1971 The 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
1970 Posters of Contemporary Japan, Durham University, UK
1970 COMMERCIAL GRAPHIC, Melton Gallery, Tronto, Canada
1970 Commercial Graphic, Gallery Melton, Canada (solo)
1966 The 2nd Sogetsu Animation Festival, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
1966 The 2nd Brno International Graphic Biennale, Czechoslovakia
1965 The 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
1965 Keiichi Tanaami - SERIES ORDER MADE, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1959 Formative Art of Light by Metallic Art, Ginza Sato Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1958 Metallic Art for Open-air Murals, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo (solo)

Literature
2008 “HOTROD”, HOTROD Norway
2008 “COLORFUL”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
2007 “DAYDREAM”, Graphic-sha
2006 “KAMON”, KING OF MOUNTAIN
2006 “Keiichi Tanaami ggg Books 76”, Ginza Graphic Gallery-Trans Art
2006 “Layers of Keiichi Tanaami”, Kyoto University of Art and Design
2005 “spiral”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing
2004 “BLOW UP 2”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing
2004 “Dream and Memory”, Studio Warp
2004 “Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami” (1966) Reprinted Edition, Keiichi Tanaami Design Studio
2004 “Keiichi Tanaami – Hyakka Kyoran”, PRINTS 21
2004 “Weekly TANAAMI”, Keibun-sha Ichijoji-ten (exhibition catalogue)
2002 “AMIGOS”, Gallery 360
2002 “KINGYO”, Amus Arts Press
2002 “Keiichi Tanaami – Animation Catalogue”, Research Center for Information Design, Kyoto University of Art and Design (exhibition catalogue)
2001 “BLOW UP”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing
1998 “Variation”, Galerie Vivant
1996 “100 M Sightseeing – Ideas for Information Design” Coauthor: Masako Inada, Chikuma shobo
1994 “Keiichi Tanaami – Works of Drawing and Print”, Irodori Museum (exhibition catalogue)
1994 “Keiichi Tanaami-Works of Print; 1967-1994”, Kawasaki City Museum
1994 “Hollywood Stardust”, Sanshindo Publishing
1994 “Travel for Memories”, Sanshindo Publishing
1992 “100 Images”, Tom’s Box
1992 “The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum (exhibition catalogue)
1991 “Spiral Forest 2”, Nogizaka Art Hall (exhibition catalogue)
1991 “Celebration of the Forest”, Sano Gallery
1991 “Blessing of the Forest”, Sano Gallery
1990 “The Work of Keiichi Tanaami”, Sano Gallery
1990 “Spiral Forest”, Private Press
1989 “Law of the Forest”, Fuso-sha
1986 “Passage in the Air; Paradise of Keiichi Tanaami”, Shuei-sha
1986 “Hollywood Stardust”, Image Forum
1984 “Keiichi Tanaami 1979-1984”, Private Press
1978 “Cine Market of Keiichi Tanaami; Artificial Paradise”, Hachiyo-sha
1975 “Far From the Film – Keiichi Tanaami”, Image Forum (exhibition catalogue)
1974 “The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Rippu Shobo
1974 “Pan Cake for Breakfast”, Rippu Shobo
1971 “Celluloid Borin In America”, Gallery Décor, Tokyo
1969 “Kyozo Mirai Zukan (Illustrated Book of Imaginary Tomorrow)”, Coauthor: Eizaburo Hara, Bronze-sha
1966 Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami”, Private Press
1963 “Tamago-gata (Egg Shape)” ,Modern Art Center
Film Works
1971 “JAM POT” 16mm color 24mins
1971 “GREEN・RED” 16mm color 12mins
1971 “SHE” 16mm color 8mins
1971 “PUSSY”(2 sides) 16mm color 12mins
1971 “RAINBOW・SCENE”(3 sides) 16mm color 11mins
1973 “U.F.O” 16mm color 4mins
1974 “SWEET TOUCH OF LOVE” 16mm color 3mins
1974 “GET BACK ON THE HILL” 16mm color 12mins
1975 “4・EYES” 16mm color 9mins
1975 “WHY” 16mm color 10mins30sec
1975 “SHOOT THE MOON” 16mm color 8mins
1975 “SPECTACLE” 16mm color 16mins50sec
1975 “PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES” 16mm color 23mins
1975 “LOOK AT THE WOOD” 16mm color 12mins
1975 “Artificial Paradise” 16mm color 14mins
1975 “Human Events” 16mm color 5mins
1976 “Casa Blanca” 16mm color 9mins42sec
1977 “Jekyll and Hyde” 16mm color 13mins
1978 “Frankenstein” 16mm color 11mins
1978 “YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)” 16mm color 11mins12sec
1978 “YOUSHI KEI (Preview)” 16mm color 3mins
1979 “YOUSHI KEI (Another Rainbow City)” 16mm color 17mins17sec
1980 “Darkness Luring a Faint” 16mm color 27mins
1981 “Ryogu-Saishoku” 16mm color 15mins
1984 “Dream Shape Records” 16mm color 30mins
2002 “WHY Re-mix 2002” DV color 3mins20sec
Animation Works
1965 “Marionettes in Masks” 35mm color 8mins
1966 “Women”(Co-produced with Shigetaka Sawada) 35mm color 7mins
1971 “GOOD-BY MARILYN” 16mm color 4mins52sec
1971 “GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA” 16mm color 7mins
1971 “FLICKER LOVE NO.1” 16mm color 4mins
1971 “COMMERCIAL WAR” 16mm color 4mins30sec
1973 “OH! YOKO!” 16mm color 4mins
1975 “Gentle Friday” 16mm color 3mins
1975 “CRAYON ANGEL” 16mm color 3mins
2000 “Dark Memories/Shadows of Dream” 16mm color 4mins
2001 “Breath of Window (Correspondence by Animation)” 16mm color 4mins
2002 “Scrap Diary” 16mm B&W 4mins
2002 “Gaze in the Summer – 1942” 16mm color 4mins
2002 “Memories (Scene of the Childhood)” 16mm color 3mins15sec
2002 “Walking Man” 16mm color 6mins
2002 “GOLDFISH FETISH” DV color 6mins
2003 “PUZZLE OF AUTUMN” DV color 8mins
2003 “FETISH DOLL” 16mm color 6mins
2003 “Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami” DV color 6mins
2004 “LANDSCAPE” 16mm color 4mins25sec
2004 “Ten Nights’ Dreams” 16mm color 6mins
2005 “TRIP” 16mm color 4mins30sec
2005 “Madonna’s Temptation” 16mm color 4mins
2005 “BLOW UP 2” DV color 8mins
2005 “4・EYES Re-Mix 2005” DV color 7mins
2005 “MADONNA” DV color 5mins
2005 “The Harmonic Gleam Vibration” DV color 10mins
2006 “NOISE” 16mm color 8mins50sec
2007 “INCH-HIGH SAMURAI” 16mm color 4mins35sec
2008 “CHIRICO” 16mm color 4mins30sec
2008 “Paradise for Eyes” 16mm color 3mins50sec
2008 “SHUNGA” 16mm color 4mins
DVD
2002 “TANAAMISM – Magician of Film 1975-2002, Broadway
2002 “TANAAMISM 2 – Visual Epicureanism 1971-2002, Broadway
2003 “TANAAMISM”〔DVDBOX〕, Broadway
2004 “SCRAP DIARY+ANIMACTIONS!!, CREAGE
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