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Atsuko Tanaka Biography
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1932 |
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Born in Osaka, February 10
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1950 |
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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.
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1951 |
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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).
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1965 |
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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.
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1972 |
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Tanaka and Kanayama move from Osaka to Nara
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
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2005
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Works on Paper – 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
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2005
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Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
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2004
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Gutai Retrospective, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
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2004
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Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968, Grey Art Gallery New York University, New York
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2004
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Atsuko Tanaka: Paintings and Drawings 1980-2002, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
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2003
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Atsuko Tanaka, New Paintings 2002-2003, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
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2002
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Atsuko Tanaka, Galerie imTasixpalais, Innsbruck, Austria
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2002
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Atsuko Tanaka in Kyoto, Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto
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2002
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Atsuko Tanaka: Circle, Circle, Circle, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
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