Atsuko tanaka biography

Japanese artist (–)

Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko; February 10, – December 3, ) was a Japanese avant-garde artist. She was a central figure of the Gutai Art Association from to Her works have found increased curatorial and scholarly attention across the globe since the early s, when she received her first museum retrospective in Ashiya, Japan, which was followed by the first retrospective abroad, in New York and Vancouver.^[1][2] Her work was featured in multiple exhibitions on Gutai art in Europe and North America.^[1]

Biography

Tanaka was born in Osaka, on February 10, ^[3] She had four older sisters and four older brothers. She studied at the Department of Western Painting at Kyoto Municipal College of Art (now Kyoto City University of Arts) in and left to attend the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art from ^[4]

During her study at college, Tanaka befriended her upperclassman Akira