Kazuhito Tanaka

Kazuhito Tanak was born in 1973 in Saitama, Japan. After graduating Meiji University in 1996 and then working as a corporate employee, he moved to New York. Graduated from School of VISUAL ARTS (NY) in 2004. Questioning the relations in between photography and painting, he explores new abstract expressions using photographic medium. He also organizes exhibitions as a curator in parallel with his career as an artist. He is a director of artist-run- space soda founded by him in 2018 in Kyoto. Currently lives and works in Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan.

Recent solo exhibitions include Picture(s), KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo (2022), Picture(s), Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago (2022), Gravity and Light, soda, Kyoto (2020), Self-Dual, Gallery PARC, Kyoto (2019), Trans / Real -The potential of Intangible Art vol.7 Kazuhito Tanaka, gallery αM, Tokyo (2017), pLastic_fLowers, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo (2015), etc. Recent group exhibitions include FGC July Exhibitions (with DOCUMANT), Foreland, Catskill (2022), Wind and Images, Sprout Curation, Tokyo (2021), TAMA VIVANT II, Tama Art University, Tokyo (2019), NEW BALANCE #3, XYZ collective, Tokyo (2015), hyper-materiality on photo, G/P gallery shinonome, Tokyo (2015), etc. Recent curations include Never the Same Ocean, soda + HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo (2021), S/F -Photography, or a Monolith after 200 years-, KAYOKOYUKI + soda, Tokyo (2019),  Photographs by 7 Painters, soda, Kyoto (2018), etc. 

He was awarded TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2011.