Education
| 2001 | Stayed 7 months in Berlin for Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artist |
| 1995 | MA in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1993 | BA in Sculpture, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | “Apart, From Here On”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2020 | “This, for There”, void+, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | At the Entrance of Enshrined Forest, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2018 | Unclothed and Clothed, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | O JUN x TANADA Koji: Semegu, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2016 | Bandung Sketches, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan From Koyasan to Borobudur, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore |
| 2013 | Yomi to Kagenmi, Noh Box, Sendai, Japan |
| 2012 | Rise, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan 2013) |
| 2011 | ○ & 一, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan springing up boy, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | girl tying, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Eleven boys, one girl, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2006 | Koji Tanada, Void+, Tokyo, Japan Koji Tanada, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Koji Tanada, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Koji Tanada, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | Domination & Submission, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | Leisurely toward Affirmation, Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 | Atagoyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994 | Gallery MYU, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | “Architecture / Sculpture for Itami City Hall: Kengo Kuma, Atsuhiko Misawa and Koji Tanada”, Itami City Museum of Art, History and Culture, Hyogo “Re: Freshers – New Acquisitions”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art “Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum 20th Anniversary: Flowers of Life”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka |
| 2021 | Omni-Sculptures: The Scene of Emergence, Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art: Kiinseido – Hirakushi Denchu and Works Connecting Tradition with the Future, Homotsuden Treasure Museum, Meiji Jingu, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2020 | Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | sculpture and sketch exhibition to draw line in space, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (travelling to Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi / Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi / Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime), Japan Grand Reopening Exhibition MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Masterpieces of The National Museum of Art, Osaka: Clues for Art Appreciation, Fukuoka Art Museum (2019 traveled to Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History, Aichi), Japan Sculpted in Time – Narrative Existence, The University Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan Denchu Strut – Good Vibration, Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Wood-Carved Netsuke, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| 2017 | Modern Representations of Human Figures – From the Collection of The National Museum of Art, Osaka, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan Denchu Strut, Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Clematis no Oka 15th Anniversary: Tree of Life, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan IMAYŌ – Connecting Past and Present, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Rediscovering Three-Dimensional Art in Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan IMAYŌ, Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, United States IMAYŌ, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Hawaii, United States Rediscovering Three-Dimensional Art in Japan, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan 「Impacts! 勢み」, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2015 | 88, Fei Art Museum Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan No Museum, No Life? – Art-Museum Encyclopedia to come from the Collections of The National Museum of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Further towards the future, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore Unveiling Fundamentals in Contemporary Art Through Asia, OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia |
| 2014 | Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 「Impacts! 勢み」Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art × Mizuma Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2013 | 2013 International Exchange Exhibition of Wood Sculpture, Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum, Sanyi, Taiwan |
| 2012 | ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan 2013) 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: Allure of the Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 2011 | TDW-ART Elpis - Sky of Hope, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) |
| 2010 | SO + ZO, Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan Collection 2, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Currents in Japanese Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2009 | Style & Jaguar, JAGUAR AOYAMA, Tokyo, Japan Essential Experiences, Museo Regionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy HAIKU - Sculpture 2009, Okinawa Prefectural Arts University Library and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan November Steps – Susan Philipsz & Gallery Artists, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | The Artists of the TARO Award 1, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Off the Rails, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China, Japan |
| 2007 | Sculpture From Stories, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan The Field of Memories - a gap in the fact and fiction, Tokyo Zokei University Yokoyama Memorial Manzu Museum, Tokyo, Japan Merida, Yucatan, City of Sculpture, Merida, Mexico |
| 2006 | New Work From an Old Studio, Hirakushi Denchu House, Tokyo, Japan Life, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan DOMANI 2006, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | You or It, MIZUMA ACTION, Tokyo, Japan Since 1994 - Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 8th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2004 | Tokyo Style, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2003 | Skin Body Communication - Physical, Joshibi Art Museum, Kanagawa, Japan The Human Body in Contemporary Sculpture, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Chigasaki Art Now: The Four Rooms - Body’s Reality, Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2001 | Sex and Consumerism: Contemporary Art in Japan, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK (traveled to: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK; Hot Bath Gallery, Bath, UK) FLAGSHIP 2001 Tour, Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan S(h)iting in the mirror, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | 13th Materials - Emerging Visions, Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | Destruction and Construction, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan Art Expansion + Sign ’99, Tsukuba Art Museum, Ibaraki, Japan 12th Materials - Emerging Visions, Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan Young Art International '98, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany Holy Gift vol.2 -Small Works-, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | Morphe ’97 -transmission-, Ohara Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Potential of Sculpture, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan Artists Toward Tomorrow, Kanagawa Art Annual ’97, Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan |
Awards
| 2022 | The 30th Hirakushi Denchu Award |
| 2010 | The 20th Takashimaya Art Award |
| 2005 | Special Prize, the 8th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art |
Public Collections
| Itami City, Hyogo Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Japan Foundation, Tokyo Itami City Museum of Art, History and Culture, Hyogo Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa Long Museum, Shanghai, China The National Museum of Art, Osaka Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo |
Publication
| 2012 | Rise (Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc.) |
| 2008 | Eleven Boys, One Girl (NOHARA Co., Ltd.) |
