Shinjiro Tanaka is an artist whose practice is grounded in Hazama, a perspective that explores the transformative potential emerging where cultures, values, perceptions, and places intersect.

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Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo, Tanaka has navigated different cultural and creative landscapes throughout his life. His experiences across Japan and the United States, advertising and art, street dance and contemporary art, together with living with ASD and ADHD, have shaped Hazama—his perspective that sees boundaries not as fixed divisions, but as places where dialogue, transformation, and new possibilities emerge.

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Working across painting, murals, installations, digital media, live painting, and participatory projects, he approaches each medium as a different way of exploring the same underlying questions. Influenced by his background in street dance, his work is guided by rhythm, movement, repetition, and improvisation, revealing invisible relationships between people, places, memories, and communities.

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After leaving a career in advertising following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Tanaka relocated to New York to pursue art. Today, based in Tokyo, he works internationally through exhibitions, public art, murals, and collaborative projects across Japan, the United States, and Europe. His recent series, Broken, yet still golden, reflects on dignity, resilience, and the possibility of renewal that remain within fracture and division.