Artists

Asako Tabata’s paintings begin from vague ideas, a thought or a memory, and grow through the process of painting, becoming the heart of the composition. If the flow of the idea changes, she allows the change to lead the creative process and give meaning to the work, sometimes in unexpected points and surprising forms. Her paintings and sculptures are unique specifically because of their intense expression of a pervasive sense of being cut-off and a weighted aloneness. Either unframed or with frames that are handcrafted and seemingly slapped-together, her expressions are singularly poignant works. Her sculptures are equally notable revelations of the secrets that we bear, the pain that we feel and our attempts to retreat from society.

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Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1972
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Presently a member of Hitohito-kai
 【Education】
1996 Graduated from Tama Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Major in Oil Painting
 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】
2023 Asako Tabata: Wiping Makes it Dirtier (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
Asako Tabata: Waste Of A Cushion (SEIZAN Gallery、New York)
2022 Asako Tabata: Cutting a Loquat Tree (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
2021 Himitsu no Barizougon (Gallery Echo-ann, Tokyo)
2019 Tasuuketsu dakara (Art space Mizu no Oto, Tokyo)
2017 Seesaw (Art space Mizu no Oto, Tokyo)
2012 Asako Tabata-ten (Gallery Echo-ann, Tokyo, continued in 2018)
Asako Tabata-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued in 2014)
2011 Asako Tabata-ten (Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo, continued through 2013, in 2015)
 【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2023 ART MIAMI (SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Miami, FL)
VOLTA New York (SEIZAN Gallery booth, New York)
2022 PASSION!! (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2021 GHOSTS OF SUMMER (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2020 Online Exhibition “除災招福  JO SAI SHO FUKU (WARD OFF CALAMITIES, INVITE GOOD LUCK): GODS AND YOKAI IN TIME OF PANDEMIC” (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
ON THIS SHORE (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
A SINGLE ANT BITE (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2015 Sensu-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2014 Hyakki Yakou-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2013 Sensu-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2010 Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, through 2014, 2023)
2007 Hitohito-ten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, continued every year afterward)
【Publications】
2021 Illustration for MONKEY Volume 2: Sea Horse by Hiromi Kawakami translated by Ted Goossen(Switch Publishing Co., Ltd. )
【Others】
2023 Yau, John. “The Infinite, Never-Released Scream” Hyperallergic, September 14.