Kanako Tada

(b.1989, Hiroshima) is an artist based in Vienna.

Education
2017- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Contextual painting (Prof. Ashley Hans Scheirl), currently enrolled
2015 MA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2013 Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea (Exchange student)
2012 BA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Selected solo exhibitions
2017 blind, Vacuum Gallery, Beijing
2016 voice, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
2015 vulnerable, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai
2014 I’m in love, I’m alone, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo

Selected group exhibitions
2023 HAKONIWA, Glass and Geibun Project（GGP), Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2023 Crossing Uncertainty, Galerie KRAS, Vienna
2022 AN DER TAFEL, Medienwerkstatt Wien,Vienna
2022 My Collection and Me,Art Center Ongoing,Tokyo
2021 ◯◯life, SET Lewisham, London
2021 Undoing Landscape, Erste Campus,Vienna
2021 Undoing Landscape, xhibit, Vienna, academically affiliated
2021 PARALLEL VIENNA Editions 21, Vienna
2020 Distance to the painting, art space LOOP HOLE, Tokyo
2019 Vertical River, ak46, Vienna
2019 Parallax Trading, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
2018 IN WITH THE NEW, VBKÖ, Vienna
2018 DAS JUB JUB, art space 5020, Salzburg
2015 Railroadsiding2015, former lunch meal center, Tokorozawa city, Saitama, JP

Artist in Residence
2017 Red Gate Residency, Beijing
2016 Red Gate Residency, Beijing
2015 Pantocrator Galley, Shanghai
2015 Bank ART studio NYK, Kanagawa, JP
2013 Zamworl Museum of Art, Jeolla Province, South Korea

Prizes and Grants
2021-2022 Grants for Overseas Study Programme for Young Artists, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, JP
2020-21 Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, The Pola Art Foundation, JP
2017 Hiroshima Scholarship for students study abroad, Hiroshima
2015 Musashino Art University graduation works prize, Tokyo

Curation
2023 Crossing Uncertainty, Galerie KRAS, Vienna
2019 Vertical River, ak46, Vienna

Talks, Publication, Text contribution
2021 ‘Reexploring Kanji Body System’ with Ann Cotten, The New Alphabet volume 1, ed. HKW-Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Bernd Scherer, Leipzig: Spector.
2021 ’Sense of Place’, essay, The Inhabitants: Adopt a Project, online article, Bandung, ID
2020 The translation of Ernst Jandl’s Viennese lyrics into Japanese with Ann Cotten, from the series CONVERSATIONS, Christine König Galerie, Vienna