Haruko Tanaka

Born:

1974

Residence:

South Pasadena, California, USA

Nationality:

American

Trust:

APT Los Angeles

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Beginning June 11, Southern Exposure and LA-based Machine Project will join forces to become Southern Machine Exposure Project: three weeks
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Haruko Tanaka (b. 1974, Queens, New York) is an artist working in photography, graphic design, film and social practice. Born in the U.S. and raised in England and Japan, Haruko moved to Los Angeles where she was trained at the University of Southern California (BA Fine Art, 1997) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA Photography and Media Art, 2003).

Her visual work has been presented at The Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum, Museum of Modern Art, CUE Art Foundation, Torrance Art Museum, Armory Center for the Arts as well as The Rotterdam International Film Festival and Asian American International Film Festival. In 2014 Haruko was an L.A. Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center. Recent public art commissions include commissions from Sustainable Little Tokyo and The California Community Foundation.

Since 2007 Haruko has been one half of the artist intuitive duo Krystal Krunch with her collaborator Asher Hartman. Working closely with Machine Project, Krystal Krunch has traveled to such places as the Walker Art Center, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre in London, and Extrapool in the Netherlands in addition to many colleges and universities in the U.S., offering a variety of workshops where participants learn to engage their intuition to see themselves, others, art, and the spaces around them. In 2014 Haruko became a core member of The Readers Chorus, a performative readers group who come together weekly in experimental laboratory workshps. To date The Readers Chorus have performed at Machine Project, The Wulf, The Velasvelasay Panorama and Automata.

Haruko has been a part of the Artist Pension Trust (APT) Los Angeles since 2009.

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