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”.
個展
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
聯展
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
