Ayumi Tanaka: Wish You Were Here
December 5, 2015 – March 30, 2016
Opening: Saturday, Dec 12, 6-9pm
Ayumi Tanaka explores the landscape of memory in her new project Wish you were here. Using family photos from her childhood in Japan, self-portraits, and pictures found on the Internet, Tanaka creates multi-layered collages that symbolically reconstruct her childhood memories. The assembled dioramas are then photographed, resulting in a series of prints which are intimate in scale and in tone.
BIO
Ayumi Tanaka is a Japanese-born artist, living and working in New York City. Tanaka has been working on collage work by using found images from private snapshot and the Internet to explore theme of memories. She received a BFA from Osaka University of Arts in Japan in 2002, and studied at International Center of Photography in 2010.
Her work has been shown internationally at exhibitions including United Photo Industries Gallery in New York, Tokyo Institute of Photography in Tokyo Japan, 25 CPW Gallery in New York, Pictura Gallery in Bloomington IN, Dumbo Arts Festival 2011 in NY, and LOOK3 festival of the Photographs 2012 in Charlottesville VA. Her work has been published at “PHat Photo (Tokyo, Japan), Lettre International (Beriln, Germany), LensCulture, GUP Magazine and Feature Shoot. Tanaka was awarded International Center of Photography Director Fellowship in 2010 (New York), Grand prix at Tokyo International Photography Competition 2013 (Tokyo, New York), Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 and Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award 2014 (New York).
