Kara Tanaka

BIOGRAPHY
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KARA TANAKA
1983 Born in Modesto, California 
  Lives and works in Los Angeles 
   
Education  
2008 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 
2006 Postgraduate Diploma, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK 
2005 BA, University of California, Irvine, CA 
   
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2010 A Sad Bit of Fruit, Pickled in the Vinegar of Grief, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  Death’s Boutique, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (with Marco Rios)
2008 Migrating Body & Generative Power, CAA, Los Angeles, CA
  Pining Wind, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
  Dissolver, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA  
       Mad Amour, Simon Preston Gallery, New York (with Marco Rios)
2005 Self Laid Bare, Room Gallery, Irvine, CA 
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, curated by Andrew Berardini, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (Because It Is), Pitzer College Art Galleries, Nichols Gallery, Claremont, CA
2009 A Universe We Can Believe In, Oliver Art Center, California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
  November, Again, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
  Fat Head Balloon Self-Portrait, Exercising for Exorcising (Mein Doppelganger), My Lights (Kokopelli), C3PO, Simon Preston, New York, NY
2007 My Buddy, The New Wight Gallery Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Lost Streams: The First Frontier was The Water’s Edge, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico 
   November, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY 
   It Was the Blurst of Times, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX 
   Agent Once, Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles, CA 
   Rag and Bone, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK  
   Black Autumn Gold Supported by The Union, Meals & SUVs Gallery, London, UK 
2004 Yank, Andrea Bowers’ and Sam Durant’s studio, Los Angeles, CA