Kazuhito Tanaka

Kazuhito Tanaka was born in 1973 in Saitama, Japan. After receiving a B.Com. at Meiji University, School of Commerce, and working in a corporate job, he relocated to the United States. In 2004, Tanaka received a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts (New York). Exhibiting works both in Japan and abroad, Tanaka explores new forms of expression through photography, with a focus on the relationship between photography and painting. He is currently based in Kyoto and Fukuoka. As its director, he also organizes exhibitions at the artist-run space “soda” in Kyoto. He received the Grand Prix at Tokyo Frontline Photo Award in 2011.

Tanaka’s recent solo exhibitions include “Picture(s) II” (2025, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “Picture(s)” (2024, DOCUMENT, Lisbon), “Picture(s)” (2023, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna), “Picture(s)” (2022, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “Picture(s)” (2022, Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago), “Self-Dual” (2019, Gallery PARC, Kyoto), “Gold Sees Blue” (2018, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo), and “Trans/Real: The Potential of Intangible Art Vol.7 Kazuhito Tanaka” (2017, gallery αM, Tokyo).

Group exhibitions include “Dreaming Chimera” (2024, soda + HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo), “‘Photography Mine,’ Unrealization of the subject (object) and photography.” (2023, Sprout Curation, Tokyo), “Never the Same Ocean” (2021, HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo), and “S/F -Photography, or a Monolith after 200 years-” (2019, KAYOKOYUKI + soda, Tokyo).