PROFILE---Keiichi Tanaami
1936 Born in Kyobashi ,Tokyo , Japan .
1958 Musashino Art University, Tokyo , Japan.
Present Lives and works in Tokyo.
■ EXHIBITIONS
=Solo Exhibition=
| 1958 | “Metallic Art for Open-air Murals”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1959 | “Formative Art of Light by Metallic Art”, Ginza Sato Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1965 | “Keiichi Tanaami - SERIES ORDER MADE”, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1970 | “Commercial Graphic”, Gallery Melton, Canada |
| 1971 | “Keiichi Tanaami - CELLULOID BORN IN AMERICA”, Gallery D_cor, Tokyo “Cinema Demonstration”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo |
| 1972 | “Films by Keiichi Tanaami”, Tenjo-Sajiki-kan, Tokyo “Clockwork Marilyn”, Gallery D_cor, Tokyo |
| 1974 | “SUPER ORANGE OF LOVE SERIES”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1976 | “YOUSHIKEI (Infantile Landscape)”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1977 | “BOENKYO (The Mirror of Forgetting Childhood)” Serigraphy, Ao Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1979 | “ANOTHER PARADISE OF ARTIFICE SERIES”, Ao Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1980 | “GIKEIZUKAN (The Illustrated Book of Artificial View) SERIES”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo |
| 1984 | “BURNING IN THE EVENING SERIES”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo |
| 1985 | “HYAKKA RYORAN (Bright With All Sorts of Flowers) _ Keiichi Tanaami 60’s Poster Exhibition”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo |
| 1986 | “THE HOLLYWOOD STARDUST”, Gallery 360°, Yurakucho Seibu Marion, Tokyo “The World of Keiichi Tanaami - PASSAGE IN THE AIR”, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo |
| 1987 | “Keiichi Tanaami”, Annecy Chateau Museum, France “THE HOUSE IN ACSENTION”, Plus Minus Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1989 | “New Works of Keiichi Tanaami - LAW OF THE FOREST”, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo |
| 1990 | “LAW OF THE FOREST”, Seibu Hall, Shiga |
| 1991 | “SPIRAL FOREST-2”, Nogizaka Art Hall, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition - CELEBLATION OF THE FOREST”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1992 | “The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka |
| 1994 | “Keiichi Tanaami-Works of Print 1967-1994”, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa “Keiichi Tanaami’s Film-Image of Memory”, AV Hall, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa |
| 1995 | “Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition-Resembling”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition-Travel for Memories”, Bokushin Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1996 | “Keiichi Tannami-100 Prints”, Chukyo University C-Square, Nagoya |
| 1998 | “Variation by Dry-Point”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo |
| 2000 | “Keiichi Tanaami Graphic Works in the 60’s”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo |
| 2001 | “Keiichi Tanaami BLOW UP Launch Exhibition”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo “Goldfish Exhibition by Keiichi Tanaami”, Tokyo International Forum・Exhibition space, Tokyo |
| 2002 | “Tactile Sensibility of the Age-Keiichi Tanaami Graphic Works 1967-2002”, D’s Gallery, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto “Keiichi Tanaami 3000 Drawings”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami-Goldfish Lurking in a Glorious View”, graf media gm, Osaka “Keiichi Tanaami-Legends of Volupte 1971-2002”, Uplink Factory, Tokyo |
| 2003 | “Collage of FLOWERS by Keiichi Tanaami”, Art Space Eumeria, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami-GET BACK”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo |
| 2004 | “DISCO UNIVERSITY with Naohiro Ukawa”, KPO Kirin Plaza Osaka, Japan |
| 2004 | “TANAAMI’S BEAUTY PARADE”, Naruyama Gallery, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami _ Ascension Furniture”, graf media gm, Osaka “Keiichi Tanaami - Ascension Furniture + Fantastic City”, EX’REALM, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami _ Big Playground City”, IDEE, Kyoto |
| 2005 | Solo Exhibition, Transplant Gallery, New York “Films of Keiichi Tanaami and Graphic 100”, the Norwegian International Film Festival, Norway |
| 2006 | “TANAAMISM”, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo “Layers of Keiichi Tanaami”, Gallery AUBE, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto “Keiichi Tanaami _ KAMON”, Paul Smith 9 Albemarls Street Shop, London |
| 2007 | “DAYDREAM”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo |
=Group Exhibitions=
| 1965 | “The 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo |
| 1966 | “The 2nd Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo “The 2nd Brno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia |
| 1970 | “Posters of Contemporary Japan”, Durham University, UK “COMMERCIAL GRAPHIC”, Melton Gallery, Tronto, Canada |
| 1971 | “The 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo |
| 1972 | “Grabbing Films Video Week”, American Center, Tokyo |
| 1973 | “The 1st Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo |
| 1974 | “Laboratory of Image” by Japanese Contemporary Artists”, San Paulo Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil “The 6th Brno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia “New Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema”, Millennium Theater, U.S.A. |
| 1975 | “Far From Cinema-Film Exhibition/Keiichi Tanaami + Toshio Matsumoto”, Seibu Theater, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo “The 3rd Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo “Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany |
| 1976 | “Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany “New York Film Festival”, U.S.A. Elites of Today, Central Museum, Tokyo “Ottawa International Animation Film Festival”, Canada |
| 1977 | “Media Art”, Seibu Museum, Tokyo “Private Film-1967-1977”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo “THE PRINTS _ What is Plant?”, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1978 | “Quebec International Art Critics Film Festival”, Canada “The 8th Bruno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia “JUST ANIMATION, Shibuya PARCO Gallery”, Tokyo “Modern Satirical Drawings and Various Expression of Today”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo “The 7th Warszawa International Poster Biennale”, Poland “Rostock International Invitation Posters”, Rostock Museum, East Germany “Japanese Experimental Cinema”, Pompidou Center, Paris, France “Colorado International Invitation Poster”, Colorado University, U.S.A. “Japanese Experimental Cinema”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. |
| 1979 | “Contemporary Japanese Animation - THE MAGICIANS IN DREAM, LAUGHTER AND ILLUSION”, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan “New Japanese Animation, Japan Society”, Film Forum, New York, U.S.A. “Art Pop”, Ikebukuro PARCO, Tokyo “The 3rd Lahti International Poster Biennale”, Lahti Art Museum, Finland “Baghdad International Invitation Poster Exhibition”, Iraq “The 4th Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo “The 3rd London International Avant-Garde Film Festival”, London, UK |
| 1980 | “China Town Fantasia”, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo “The Labyrinth of Creation”, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1981 | “Japan Today”, ICA Gallery, London, UK “Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland “International Colorado Invitation Poster Exhibition”, Clara Hatten Gallery, U.S.A. “Today’s Japanese Poster”, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Museum, U.S.A. |
| 1982 | “Today’s Illustration”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi “Invitation to Experimental Film; The Radicalism of Image Art”, The Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka “20 Years of Japanese Experimental Film”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi “In Search of the Museum of Tomorrow”, The Hyogo Museum of Art, Hyogo |
| 1983 | “The 7th Hong Kong International Film Festival; Japanese Experimental Film Program”, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong “The 1st Japanese Experimental Film Show”, Chicago Institute of Arts, U.S.A. “The 2nd Contemporary Art Festival _ Art & Technology”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama “The 3rd Australian Film Conference”, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1984 | “Osnabruck Experimental Film Festival; Experimental Film Workshop”, Osnabruck, Germany “Contemporary Japanese Poster”, York University Art Gallery, Canada “Contemporary Japanese Posters”, Stratford City Art Museum, UK “The 38th Edinburgh International Film Festival”, UK “Mannheim International Film Festival”, West Germany “Today’s Japanese Posters”, Art Curial, France |
| 1985 | “The 4th Experimental Film Festival”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo “Japanese Experimental Film _ Tour Program”, Mid-west Film Center, U.S.A. “CONTINUUM ’85 - Japanese Contemporary Art Australian Tour Program”, Kawasaki IBM Gallery, Tokyo, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia “Japanese Avant-garde of Future”, Genova, Italy “Osnabruck Experimental Film Workshop”, West Germany “Museum Theater _ An Approach to the New Image, Twenty Five Years of Japanese Experimental Film”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “1964-1984 Japanese 20 Years of Cinema”, Australia Film Institute, Australia |
| 1986 | “Mannheim International Film Festival”, Mannheim, West Germany |
| 1987 | “Annecy Animation International Film Festival”, Annecy France “Paper Work Exhibition”, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia “Japanese Illustration 1987”, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo “Japanese Avant-garde Art, History of Experimental Film”, Pompidou Center, Paris, France “Poster Japan, Establishment and Development of Graphic Design”, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1988 | “Evolution of Animation Movie _ Japanese Experimental Animation Today”, O-Museum, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Polaroidart, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo |
| 1990 | “Design Specimen of the Last Dacade-1990”, Matsuya, Tokyo “Genealogy of Optical Movie”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama |
| 1991 | “Art is Fun---2”, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma |
| 1992 | “Aspects of a Small Group; Formation of the Postwar Art 1961-1969”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo “Chiba City’s New Permanent Collection from the History of Postwar Art”, Chiba City Gallery, Chiba “ADAM & EVE (Magnetic Field of Sex)”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “Retrospective 17 Years-50 Worlds of Beauty”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka |
| 1994 | “History and Perspective of Imaging Arts”, International Newspaper Hall, Korea “Contemporary Japanese Animation”, High Museum, U.S.A. “The 40 Years History of Japanese Experimental Films”, Kirin Plaza, Osaka “Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Art”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa |
| 1995 | “Many Kinds of Flowers”, SUNTORY Museum, Osaka “67 Graphic Sharaku”, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo “Japanese Experimental Animation”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa “Traces of Postwar Culture-Film History of Postwar 50 Years”, Oval Hall, Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka |
| 1996 | “Prints of the 70s”, Shibuya Shoto Art Museum, Tokyo “Experiencing Art 1996; Survival Tools Designed by Artists”, Sakura City Art Museum, Chiba |
| 1997 | “Hizikata Tsutsumi _ Art and Dance”, Ikeda 20th Century Art Museum, Shizuoka |
| 1998 | “The 28th Finland Tampere International Short Film Festival”., Finland “Art of the 20th Century; East and West”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka “1960’s=Legendary Era _ Experimental Films Ever Seen”, Lecture Hall, Yokohama Art Museum, Kanagawa “Visual Expansion of Photography”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
| 1999 | “OPTICAL SYNSESIS-New Psychedelic and Virtuality”, Yotsuya Image Forum, Tokyo |
| 2000 | “JAGDA Poster Exhibition-DESIGN 2000”, Aichi International Design Center, Aichi, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu “The 6th Mumbai International Documentary”, Short Films, Animation Film Festival, India “Japanese Short Animation”, France Culture Center, India “Image Forum Festival 2000, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall”, Yokohama Art Museum. Kansai German Culture Center “Period of Nissenbi-Japanese Graphic Design 1951-70”, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2001 | “VERSUS VOL.3 Keiichi Tanaami VS Naohiro Ukawa”, depot, Tokyo |
| 2002 | “Opt Mannierism Theater of Light Bands”, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo “Image Experience Museum; Japanese Experimental Films 50’s _ 70’s”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo “Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto”, AV Hall Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto “Hiroshima International Animation Festival”, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima “Vancouver International Film Festival”, Canada “Holland International Animation Film Festival”, Holland |
| 2003 | “Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland “Image Forum Festival 2003”, Park Tower Hall, Tokyo “Nashville Independent Film Festival”, U.S.A. “Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto”, Japan Italy Center, Kyoto “London International Film Festival”, UK “Seihou Takeuchi VS Keiichi Tanaami”, ALBION Art Museum, Nara |
| 2004 | “The 50th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany “Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland “Vancouver International Film Festival”, Canada |
| 2005 | “Melbourne International Film Festival”, Australia |
| 2006 | “Festival de Cinema Japones _ Nippon Koma Exhibition”, Portugal “Spoltore Ensemble 2005”, Italy |
| 2007 | “Rock’n Roll Vol.1”, Norrkkoping Art Museum, Sweden “Rock’n Roll Vol.2”, Sorlanders Art Museum, Norway “Pulp 11”, Istefos Museet, Norway |
■BIBLIOGRAPHY
=Book of Paintings=
| 1963 | “Tamago-gata (Egg Shape)” ,Modern Art Center |
| 1966 | “Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami”, Private Press |
| 1969 | “Kyozo Mirai Zukan (Illustrated Book of Imaginary Tomorrow)”, Coauthor: Eizaburo Hara, Bronze-sha |
| 1974 | “The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Rippu Shobo |
| 1984 | “Keiichi Tanaami 1979-1984”, Private Press |
| 1986 | “Passage in the Air; Paradise of Keiichi Tanaami”, Shuei-sha |
| 1989 | “Law of the Forest”, Fuso-sha |
| 1990 | “The Work of Keiichi Tanaami”, Sano Gallery |
| 1991 | “Blessing of the Forest”, Sano Gallery |
| 1992 | “100 Images”, Tom’s Box |
| 1994 | “Keiichi Tanaami-Works of Print; 1967-1994”, Kawasaki City Museum “Hollywood Stardust”, Sanshindo Publishing “Travel for Memories”, Sanshindo Publishing |
| 2001 | “BLOW UP”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing |
| 2002 | “AMIGOS”, Gallery 360° “KINGYO”, Amus Arts Press |
| 2004 | “BLOW UP 2”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing “Dream and Memory”, Studio Warp “Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami” (1966) Reprinted Edition, Keiichi Tanaami Design Studio “Keiichi Tanaami _ Hyakka Kyoran”, PRINTS 21 |
| 2005 | “spiral”, Seigen-sha Art Publishing |
| 2006 | “KAMON”, KING OF MOUNTAIN “Keiichi Tanaami ggg Books 76”, Ginza Graphic Gallery-Trans Art “Layers of Keiichi Tanaami”, Kyoto University of Art and Design |
| 2007 | “DAYDREAM”, Graphic-sha |
=Book of Prints=
| 1971 | “Celluloid Borin In America”, Gallery D_cor, Tokyo |
| 1974 | “Pan Cake for Breakfast”, Rippu Shobo |
| 1986 | “Hollywood Stardust”, Image Forum |
| 1990 | “Spiral Forest”, Private Press |
| 1991 | “Celebration of the Forest”, Sano Gallery |
| 1998 | “Variation”, Galerie Vivant |
=Essay on Films=
| 1978 | “Cine Market of Keiichi Tanaami; Artificial Paradise”, Hachiyo-sha |
=Joint Authorship=
| 1996 | “100 M Sightseeing _ Ideas for Information Design” Coauthor: Masako Inada, Chikuma shobo |
=Exhibition Catalogue=
| 1975 | “Far From the Film _ Keiichi Tanaami”, Image Forum |
| 1991 | “Spiral Forest 2”, Nogizaka Art Hall |
| 1992 | “The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum |
| 1994 | “Keiichi Tanaami _ Works of Drawing and Print”, Irodori Museum |
| 2002 | “Keiichi Tanaami _ Animation Catalogue”, Research Center for Information Design, Kyoto University of Art and Design |
| 2004 | “Weekly TANAAMI”, Keibun-sha Ichijoji-ten |
=Editorial Design/Art Direction=
| 1998−2000 | “Series: Information Design”, Edit: Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing |
=DVD=
| 2002 | “TANAAMISM _ Magician of Film 1975-2002, Broadway “TANAAMISM 2 _ Visual Epicureanism 1971-2003, Broadway |
| 2003 | “TANAAMISM”〔DVDBOX〕, Broadway |
| 2004 | “SCRAP DIARY+ANIMACTIONS!!, CREAGE |
■FILM WORKS
=film works=
| 1971 | “JAM POT” 16mm color 24mins “GREEN・RED” 16mm color 12mins “SHE” 16mm color 8mins “PUSSY”(2 sides) 16mm color 12mins “RAINBOW・SCENE”(3 sides) 16mm color 11mins |
| 1973 | “U.F.O” 16mm color 4mins |
| 1974 | “SWEET TOUCH OF LOVE” 16mm color 3mins “GET BACK ON THE HILL” 16mm color 12mins |
| 1975 | “4・EYES” 16mm color 9mins “WHY” 16mm color 10mins30sec “SHOOT THE MOON” 16mm color 8mins “SPECTACLE” 16mm color 16mins50sec “PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES” 16mm color 23mins “LOOK AT THE WOOD” 16mm color 12mins “Artificial Paradise” 16mm color 14mins “Human Events” 16mm color 5mins |
| 1976 | “Casa Blanca” 16mm color 9mins42sec |
| 1977 | “Jekyll and Hyde” 16mm color 13mins |
| 1978 | “Frankenstein” 16mm color 11mins “YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)” 16mm color 11mins12sec “YOUSHI KEI (Preview)” 16mm color 3mins |
| 1979 | “YOUSHI KEI (Another Rainbow City)” 16mm color 17mins17sec |
| 1980 | “Darkness Luring a Faint” 16mm color 27mins |
| 1981 | “Ryogu-Saishoku” 16mm color 15mins |
| 1984 | “Dream Shape Records” 16mm color 30mins |
| 2002 | “WHY Re-mix 2002” DV color 3mins20sec |
=Animation Works=
| 1965 | “Marionettes in Masks” 35mm color 8mins |
| 1966 | “Women”(Co-produced with Shigetaka Sawada) 35mm color 7mins |
| 1971 | “GOOD-BY MARILYN” 16mm color 4mina52sec “GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA” 16mm color 7mins “FLICKER LOVE NO.1” 16mm color 4mins “COMMERCIAL WAR” 16mm color 4mins30sec |
| 1973 | “OH! YOKO!” 16mm color 4mins |
| 1975 | “Gentle Friday” 16mm color 3mins “CRAYON ANGEL” 16mm color 3mins |
| 2000 | “Dark Memories/Shadows of Dream” 16mm color 4mins |
| 2001 | “Breath of Window (Correspondence by Animation)” 16mm color 4mins |
| 2002 | “Scrap Diary” 16mm B&W 4mins “Gaze in the Summer _ 1942” 16mm color 4mins “Memories (Scene of the Childhood)” 16mm color 3mins15sec “Walking Man” 16mm color 6mins “GOLDFISH FETISH” DV color 6mins |
| 2003 | “PUZZLE OF AUTUMN” DV color 8mins “FETISH DOLL” 16mm color 6mins “Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami” DV color 6mins |
| 2004 | “LANDSCAPE” 16mm color 4mins25sec “Ten Nights’ Dreams” 16mm color 6mins |
| 2005 | “TRIP” 16mm color 4mins30sec “Madonna’s Temptation” 16mm color 4mins “BLOW UP 2” DV color 8mins “４・EYES Re-Mix 2005” DV color 7mins “MADONNA” DV color 5mins “The Harmonic Gleam Vibration” DV color 10mins |
| 2006 | “NOISE” 16mm color 8mins50sec |
| 2007 | “INCH-HIGH SAMURAI” 16mm color 4mins35sec “DE CHIRICO” 16mm color 4mins30sec |
