Shinjiro Tanaka is an artist whose practice is grounded in Hazama—a perspective shaped through his experiences across cultures, artistic disciplines, and ways of perceiving the world.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo, Tanaka has navigated different worlds throughout his life, including Japan and the United States, advertising and art, and street dance and contemporary art. These experiences have led him to embrace movement, transformation, and connection as the foundation of his practice.
Working across painting, murals, installations, digital media, live visual performance, and participatory projects, Tanaka approaches each medium as a different language for exploring the same underlying questions. Guided by rhythm, movement, repetition, and improvisation, he creates works through the accumulation of hand-drawn lines and organic forms, revealing invisible relationships between people, nature, memory, and place.
After leaving a career in advertising following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Tanaka relocated to New York to pursue art. Now based in Tokyo, he works internationally through exhibitions, public art, murals, live visual performances, and collaborative projects across Japan, the United States, and Europe.
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Live & Visual Works merge drawing, sound, light, and space in real time.
Each project unfolds as an improvisational dialogue—sometimes with dancers, musicians, or visual artists—where analog gestures and digital visuals respond to one another, transforming the environment into a shared field of energy.
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