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Tamana Araki portrait
Photo: Hiro Ihara

Tamana Araki

Born in Tokyo, Tamana Araki encountered the engraving technique during her studies in Mexico. Since the 1990s, Araki has worked in a wide range of media including print, three-dimensional work, and installation. Through workshops, she has also created works collaboratively with children and people of diverse cultures, including indigenous people of Mexico. Currently based in New York, she continues to pursue her art at her own pace.

Born in Tokyo, Tamana Araki encountered the engraving technique during her studies in Mexico. Since the 1990s, Araki has worked in a wide range of media including print, three-dimensional work, and installation. Through workshops, she has also created works collaboratively with children and people of diverse cultures, including indigenous people of Mexico. Currently based in New York, she continues to pursue her art at her own pace.

1970
Born in Tokyo
2012-
Live and works in NY, USA
2004-05
National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving (La Esmeralda), National Center for the Arts
［Visiting Artist／The Pola Art Foundation Fellowship］
1995-97
Musashino Art University［BA］
University of Mexico (UNAM)［Visiting Student］
1993-94
National School of Fine Arts (ENAP)／Postgraduate Academy of San Carlos, National Autonomous
1989-1991
Junior College of Musashino Art University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
「Itinerant Eyes」Culture Lab LIC, NYC
2018
「Imprint MACHIDA 2018: -Tamana Araki- Spinning Cocoon Memories」Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
2008
「MAM Project 008:ARAKI TAMANA」Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
1999
「Home」Gallery Jin, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
「MOT Satellite 2019: Wandering, Mapping」Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2009
「City_net Asia 2009」Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2002
「Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws From Tradition」Kerava Art Museum, Kerava

Other Activities

2012
Children’s Book, Als die Sonne ein Kind war (NeNe Sol), BAOBAB BOOKS, Basel
2003
Making the lamps for the film Sayonara COLOR (dir. Takenaka Naoto)

Public Collection

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

Sketch for In the depths of memory
Sketch for In the depths of memory, 2023, Collection of the Artist
Poetic chaos
Poetic chaos, 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Photo: Hiro Ihara
Home
Home, 1999, Collection of the Artist
Photo: Hideto Nagatsuka
Invisible
Invisible, 2011, Collection of the Artist
Photo: Keizo Kioku
Skeleton's March
Skeleton's March, 2004, Collection of the Artist
Cow Restaurant
Cow Restaurant, 2001, Private Collection
Photo: Masaru Yanagiba
Heart of the Night
Heart of the Night, 2006, Collection of the Artist
Living like a floating cloud
Living like a floating cloud, 2000, Collection of the Artist
Night of the Lake
Night of the Lake, 2000, Collection of the Artist
Sleep between the Waves
Sleep between the Waves, 2009, Collection of the Artist
Home
NeNe Sol After a Mayan Myth (prototype) 2011, Collection of the Artist
Photo: Jun Asano
Home
NeNe Sol After a Mayan Myth (drawing) 2011, Collection of the Artist