Shintaro Tanaka1940 - 2019

Tanaka was a leader of Japanese contemporary art from the 1960s, attracting attention at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition and participating in the Neo Dadaism Organizers run by artists such as Genpei Akasegawa and Ushio Shinohara. The minimalistic expressions of his "Dots, Lines, Surfaces" unveiled in 1968 had a strong impact on not only the art world but designers such as Shiro Kuramata and architects, as well. Tanaka represented Japan at international exhibitions such as the Paris Biennale, the 10th Tokyo Biennale: Between Man and Matter, and the Venice Biennale. After a period of illness, he took up new expressive forms with "Vertical Landscapes." He also undertook many commissions, including those for Bridgestone, Faret Tachikawa, Echigo Tsumari, and the Sapporo Dome.

Biography

1940 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1958 Graduated from Hitachi Daiichi High School, Ibaraki
Moved to Tokyo to enter Research Institute of Form Western Painting
1976-77 Stayed in New York and Paris with grant of the overseas study program of the Agency of Cultural Affairs, Japan
2019 Passed away on August 23, at the age of 79.

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Solo Exhibitions

1965 “Card Series”, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo
1968 “Point-Line-Plane”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (76, 80, 86, 91)
1993 “DELTA”, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo
1999 “Shintaro Tanaka”, Gallery αM, Tokyo
2001 “Shintaro Tanaka: Canons of Fertile Expressions and Silence Meditation”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2014 かたちの発語展　BankART1929 Studio NYK / Kanagawa
2020 "Vertical Landscapes" Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba

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Group Exhibitions

1959,60,61,62,63 "11th Yomiuri lndiependent Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art / Tokyo
1960 "2nd Neo-Dadaism-Independents Exhibition Organizers" Atelier Yoshimura / Tokyo
1963 "Room of absence exhibition" Uchishina Naiqua Gallery / Tokyo
1966 “Contemporary Trends in Japanese Painting and Sculptures”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Kyoto
1967 “The 2nd Exhibition of Japanese Modern Sculpture”, Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Ube City, Yamaguchi
1969 "6th Paris Biennale" Musée d’Art Moderne de Ia Ville de Paris (awarded the Prize as the Group Bossot with Jiro Takamatsu, Nobuo Sekine, Katsuhiko Narita) / France
1970 The 10th "Tokyo Biennale", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum/ Tokyo
1971 The 11th “São Paulo Biennale" / Brazil
1972 The 36th "Venice Biennale" / Italy
1975 The13e Biënnale Middelheim" Kunsthistorische Musea Openluchtmuseum voor beeldhouwkunst Middelheim / Antwerp / Belgium
1977 "Japanese Beauty: The Color and Form" The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Osaka
1981 "The 1960’s: Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto / Tokyo, Kyoto
1988 "Olympiad of Art" Olympic Sculpture Park / Seoul
1990 "Minimal Art" The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Osaka
1997 "Japanese Summer 1960- 64" Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center / Ibaraki
2000 "Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale" / Niigata (03)
2014 “Neo Dada New Works 2013-2014” Gallery 58 / Tokyo
2016"KENPOKU ART2016" / Ibaraki
2022 "Echigo Tsumari Art Field 2022" Niigata

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Collection / Public Art

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Art, Osaka / Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum / Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki / Sezon Museum of Modern Art / Artizon Museum / Kobe City / Asahikawa City / Nagano City among others.

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