Statement
Through art, I aspire for people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to collaborate, respect each other, and build a better world. I continually challenge myself with new approaches, seeking creativity while maintaining flexibility.
I hope this mindset inspires others to grow together and contribute to society.
Shinjiro Tanaka is a Tokyo-based multimedia artist whose practice spans public art, spatial design, and live audiovisual performance.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo, he moves fluidly between art, street culture, and technology, exploring how visual rhythm can connect people across physical and digital space.
At the heart of his work is Hazama—a Japanese word meaning “the in-between.”
For Tanaka, it represents a living field where analog and digital, body and technology, life and death overlap and transform.
Using primitive yet universal motifs such as dots and lines, he treats rhythm as the essence of life, tracing invisible connections that flow through people, environments, and time.
Tanaka approaches every wall and space as a site for dialogue.
His murals for Caption by Hyatt Kabutocho and POD Hotel Brooklyn, as well as a corporate mural for Fujitsu and creative collaborations with CHUMS, reimagine architecture and design as living canvases.
Through cross-disciplinary practice, he merges the raw energy of street expression with a meditative sense of structure.
Beyond commissioned projects, Tanaka has led community-based art initiatives in post-disaster regions such as Noto and Minamisoma, where he worked with residents and children to create murals and workshops that foster connection and recovery.
He has also appeared on national television in Japan as an art mentor, guiding members of Nogizaka46 and Sakurazaka46 in large-scale collaborative paintings that brought contemporary art into popular culture.
Tanaka views art not merely as self-expression, but as a practice of renewal—a way to reimagine how people relate to each other and their surroundings.
Through the lens of Hazama, he continues to explore new forms that connect people, space, and time within an ever-changing world.
Shinjiro Tanaka
Multimedia Artist / Creative Director
History
Solo Exhibition
2025
Lost and Found / Grassroots Yokohama (Kanagawa)
2024
CHUMS x SHINJIRO TANAKA Collaboration Exhibition / CHUMS Omotesando (Tokyo)
2023
Reverse / All Day Gallery (Tokyo)
Rebirth / Gallery Max New York (New York)
2022
Dashi Joint / Dashi Brooklyn (New York)
a Moment of Eternity / Medel Gallery Shu (Tokyo)
2021
Somehow Connected / eplus LIVING ROOM CAFE＆DINING (Tokyo)
Untitled / NORA HAIR SALON (Tokyo)
2020
Augmentation / Why not? (Tokyo)
Carpe Diem / eplus LIVING ROOM CAFE＆DINING (Tokyo)
Memento Mori / Pulplism (Tokyo)
2019
PEN / Why not? (Tokyo)
REINCARNATION / RIGNA TERRACE TOKYO (Tokyo)
NYC STREET ART PROJECT / Port of Call Daikanyama (Tokyo)
2018
FACE / Sora Zenon (Tokyo)
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Group Exhibition
2025
HOWLIN' / All Street Gallery (New York)
2024
Future is now Group Show / 54 Crosby St (New York)
SIW2024 x SHIBUYA ART SCRAMBLE / Shibuya Cast (Tokyo)
2023
WHAT CAFE SPECIAL MARKET 2023 AUTUMN / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
Square Spaces / KEY TERRACE HOTEL SEAMORE (Wakayama)
2022
The Playroom of Fine Art / between the arts gallery (Tokyo)
Follow the Lines / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
“Artist ! Artist ! Artist !” Matsuya Contemporary Art Selection / Matsuya Ginza (Tokyo)
WHAT CAFE × WATOWA GALLERY EXHIBITION -DRIVE UP!- / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
Unplugged / TRiCERA Museum (Tokyo)
WATOWA GALLERY EXHIBITION “THE SELECTED vol. 2" / Elephant Studio (Tokyo)
2021
Experiments and Thoughts - Four Artists / KITTE Marunouchi (Tokyo)
CONNECT / KIMPTON SHINJUKU TOKYO (Tokyo)
LIGHT BRAIN Vol.1 / ITOKI TOKYO XORK(Tokyo)
POWER OF ART / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
Spring Healing / Tokyo Art Studio (Tokyo)
Born New Art / Shibuya Scramble Square (Tokyo)
ART MARKET TENNOZ (Tokyo)
WHAT CAFE POP UP SHOW with 100 ARTWORK (Tokyo)
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Live Performance
2025
Hustle Break Tokyo 10th anniversary / CHACARA (Kanagawa)
2024
This&That Vol. 47: “Colors of the City” / BnA_WALL (Tokyo)
Chaga-Uma Festival / Shakujii Hikawa Shrine (Tokyo)
Ascott Unlimited 40th Anniversary Dinner Event / THE UPPER (Tokyo)
New Style Hustle Party / REP music cafe (New York)
Kichi-On / Dig Bowl Kichijoji (Tokyo)
Arifuku Onsen Music Festival / Arifuku Onsen (Shimane)
Night Lyf / Lyf Ginza (Tokyo)
Evergreen / 3pm Cafe (Tokyo)
2023
Joint Jam Session / Secret Venue (Tokyo)
Evergreen / 3pm Cafe (Tokyo)
WHAT CAFE SPECIAL MARKET 2023 AUTUMN / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
Late Night Groove -Tokyo Edition- (Tokyo)
Sunday Afternoon Party / Sunday (Tokyo)
CHUMS CAMP 2023 / Rising Field Karuizawa (Nagano)
For the future 2023 / Nakaikebukuro Park (Tokyo)
Future is Now / Bushwick (New York)
CUPA Dance Showcase / Symphony Space (New York)
Rebirth / Gallery Max New York (New York)
2022
ART PROJECT TAKASAKI (Gunma)
Follow the Lines / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
WHAT CAFE × WATOWA GALLERY EXHIBITION -DRIVE UP!- / WHAT CAFE (Tokyo)
Ofuna Jam 10th anniversary / Jam (Kanagawa)
Jiyugaoka Megami Festival / Jiyugaoka (Tokyo)
Yamashiro Art Market / Yamashiro Onsen (Ishikawa)
Roppongi Art Night / Roppongi West Park (Tokyo)
and more
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Mural
2025
Caption by Hyatt Kabutocho (Tokyo)
Evolute Academia of NY (New York)
Welling Walls (New York)
Freemans Alley (New York)
2024
POD Hotel Brooklyn (New York)
Han-bi-je (Osaka)
2022
POD Hotel Brooklyn (New York)
Dashi Brooklyn (New York)
ART PROJECT TAKASAKI (Gunma)
Painted the school warehouse with all the students at an elementary school (Tokyo)
Sanko Facilities Inc. (Tokyo)
Comota CO., LTD. (Kanagawa)
eplus Living Room Cafe (Tokyo)
AZDEN CORPORATION (Tokyo)
2021
Fujitsu Limited (Kanagawa)
Nishihachi Project (Tokyo)
Ocean's Camp Toramii (Chiba)
Anker Kobe (Hyogo)
eplus Living Room Cafe (Tokyo)
Sumika (Shinjuku, Tokyo)
2020
Hachi Hachi (Shibuya, Tokyo)
eplus Living Room Cafe (Tokyo)
2019
Southbank (London)
Brooklyn Parlor (Tokyo)
Harajuku Mural Project (Tokyo)
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Collaboration
2024
Evolute Academia of NY / Interactive Installation
CHUMS 2024 Fall/Winter Collaboration
Tateno Elementary School / Interactive Installation
Arisa Makita / Music and visual collaboration
2023
Norikura Kogen Eco-Festival 2023 Entrance Curtains
Macool New Collection 2023 Spring Summer Collaborative Product Design
Favorric Collaborative Product Design
Kodama Project Collaborative Kokeshi Design
2022
Looney Tunes Tweety 80th Anniversary Collaboration Figure
c子あまね "Japan" Digital Album Covers (Sony Music)
Sound Inn "S" Collaborative Logo (BS-TBS)
2021
「oto to e to... ～ART×MUSIC～」LIVE Opening Video
Immersive theatre "Venus of Tokyo" Artwork
SXSW2020 Map Project – Shinjiro Tanaka x Stroly
Re-Bear Project
and more
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Prizes
2022
SHIBUYA ART AWARDS Nominated - Tokyo, Japan
2020
Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka- Finalists' Awards- Fukuoka, Japan
2019
D Contemporary Painting Prize 2019 - Nominated- London, United Kingdom
ART BATTLE TOKYO- First Prize- Tokyo, Japan
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