Fukuo Tanaka

Fukuo Tanaka

Artist

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Fukuo Tanaka

Artist

Fukuo Tanaka graduated from a glass art school and has created works with high-transparency, heat-resistant borosilicate glass.

Tanaka has been in charge of the glass eyes of Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s woodcarvings, and also created other glass parts for the first time at Tsuchiya’s solo exhibition in 2024.

After years of exploring glass, Tanaka uses an advanced technique called “inside-out” to produce delicateworks.

Pieces of glass on a test tube-shaped glass are heated with a burner, creating various patterns asthey melt inside, simultaneously forming a microcosm.

The unique colors are created by heating colored glass and metals such as evaporated gold and silver, and combining them by chemical reaction.

1979 Born in Osaka

2004 founded private factory “glass works topnoch”.

个展

2025 Glass Echoes of Silence, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS / Tokyo, Japan

2025 TAKASHIMAYA Nihonbashi Store 6F / Tokyo, Japan

2024 OCO GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2024 As a Species, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2023 Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. Main F6 / Tokyo, Japan

2022 Conveyance to Branches, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2021 Mimicry and Metamorphosis, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2020 TAKASHIMAYA Nihonbashi Store 6F / Tokyo, Japan

2019 Atelier Suiseisen / Tokyo, Japan

2019 MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2018 Atelier Suiseisen / Kanagawa, Japan

2018 TAKASHIMAYA Nihonbashi Store 2F / Tokyo, Japan

2016 Flower Offerings, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2016 One Day Exhibition and Demonstration, Ryo Ono x Studio Rakuu / Tokyo, Japan

2015 New Glass Works, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2015 Sequence Glass, OCO GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2015 Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2014 Atelier Suiseisen / Kanagawa ('15 '17), Japan

2014 Permeation, GALLERY TFTD / Tokyo, Japan

2014 glass works topnoch, SCATTER BRAIN / Tokyo, Japan

2013 Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2013 Antique Beach / Iwate, Japan

2013 Atelier Suiseisen / Kanagawa, Japan

2012 Fukuo Tanaka Labo, Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2011 seta-shop gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2011 THE TOPNOTCH, Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2011 GLASS WORKS TOPNOCH exhibition, TOMBODAMABUBBLES TOKYO LABORATORY / Tokyo, Japan ('12,'13)

2010 FLAT / Kanagawa, Japan

2010 galerie REN / Nagano, Japan

2009 seta-shop gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2008 GLASS WORKS TOPNOCH exhibition, Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2008 Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2008 Crafts to Wear, Gallery Mintamaa / Okinawa, Japan

2007 Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

联展

2025 ART OSAKA 2025, Osaka City Central Public Hall 3F / Osaka, Japan

2025 Shapes, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2024 artKYOTO 2024, Shōsei-en Garden / Kyoto, Japan

2024 Tobu Department Store Funabashi 6F / Chiba, Japan

2024 ART OSAKA2024, OSAKA CITY CENTRAL PUBLIC HALL / Osaka, Japan

2024 ART FAIR TOKYO, Tokyo International Forum / Tokyo, Japan

2024 ART MARBLE 2024, Kobe lampwork glass museum / Hyogo, Japan

2023 artKYOTO 2023, Former Imperial Villa Nijo-jo Castle / Kyoto, Japan

2023 ART OSAKA 2023, Osaka City Central Public Hall / Osaka, Japan

2023 ART MARBLE 2023, Kobe lampwork glass museum / Hyogo, Japan

2022 ART OSAKA 2022, OSAKA CITY CENTRAL PUBLIC HALL / Osaka, Japan

2022 The World of Borosilicate Glass, Kobe Lampwork glass Museum / Hyogo, Japan

2022 ART MARBLE&PAPERWEIGHT2022, Kobe Lampwork glass Museum / Hyogo, Japan

2021 ART OSAKA 2021, Osaka City Central Public Hall / Osaka, Japan

2020 ART OSAKA WALL by APCA / Osaka, Japan

2019 KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2019, KUMU KANAZAWA-THE SHARE HOTELS- / Ishikawa, Japan

2019 f.e.i art gallery / Kanagawa, Japan

2019 ART OSAKA 2019, HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA / Osaka, Japan

2018 TAKASHIMAYA Nihonbashi Store / Tokyo, Japan

2018 Gikou-ha Contemporary Art Exhibition, ISETAN Shinjuku / Tokyo, Japan

2018 the Grass Accessories and the Art of Lamp Works 2018, Yuyusha Gallery / Aichi, Japan

2018 with Cats, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2017 KOGEI ART Fair Kanazawa 2017, KUMU KANAZAWA THE SHARE HOTELS / Ishikawa, Japan

2017 Takashimaya Shinjuku Store 10F gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2017 TOBU Funabashi Store 5F Art Gallery / Chiba, Japan

2017 ART OSAKA 2017, HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA,26th Floor / Osaka, Japan

2017 Takashimaya Shinjuku Store 10F gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2017 the Grass Accessories and the Art of Lamp Works 2017, Yuyusha Gallery / Aichi, Japan

2017 FORM & ESSENCE, AKI Gallery / Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Work of Craftmen, Notion / Tokyo, Japan

2016 TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM / Tokyo, Japan

2016 MITSUKOSHI Nihonbashi Store / Tokyo, Japan

2015 glass works x Indigo Work, Notion / Tokyo, Japan

2015 Lampwork Exhibition, GALLERY AZEMAME within NARA CRAFTS MUSEUM / Nara, Japan ('16)

2015 Takashimaya Shinjuku Store 10F gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2014 Kobe lampwork glass museum / Hyogo, Japan ('15)

2014 SHINJUKU PARK TOWER LIVING DEZIGN CENTER OZONE / Tokyo, Japan

2013 Clear Color / KAOKAO PANDA, OCO GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2013 "WANSAKA TRAVEL" "WANSAKA IL STYLE", 2k540 AKI-OKA ARTISAN / Tokyo, Japan

2012 Gallery Tanaka / Tokyo, Japan

2012 FOREST, LOGOS GYALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2012 seta-shop gallery / Tokyo, Japan

2012 HANA ni TSUDOU, LOGOS GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2012 Fukuo Tanaka Joint Exhibition, Atelier Suiseisen / Kanagawa, Japan

2011 Exhibition of Four Artists' Handcrafts, Notion / Tokyo, Japan

2011 Rain forest by the sea, atelier SORA / Kanagawa, Japan

2010 Galerie JUILLET / Tokyo, Japan

2010 glass house, LE DECO / Tokyo, Japan

2008 Grass Hopper GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan

2008 GALLERY SATSU / Tokyo, Japan