Shinjiro Tanaka is a Tokyo based multimedia artist born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo. His practice moves across murals, paintings, installations, live painting, audiovisual performance, and site specific projects.
After studying economics at Keio University and beginning his career in advertising, the 2011 earthquake led him to reconsider the relationship between life, society, and artistic expression. He later moved to New York, where he studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design while immersing himself in street dance, music, fashion, and urban culture.
His work explores the space between opposing forces: city and nature, body and technology, chaos and order, destruction and repair. At the center of his practice is the idea of “Hazama,” the in between. Through lines, dots, repeated patterns, and improvisational gestures rooted in his background in dance, Tanaka traces invisible emotions, memories, and fractures within society.
In his recent series “Broken, yet still golden,” he reflects on the quiet dignity that remains within what has been broken. Across walls, canvases, installations, and live performance, his work creates new points of connection between place, body, memory, and community.
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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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