LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran announced representation of New York based artist Mika Tajima. The gallery will be presenting a selection of new works by Tajima at the West Bund Art Fair in Shanghai, November 2018. The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery is scheduled for November 2019.
Born in Los Angeles in 1975, Tajima earned a BA in Fine Arts and East Asian Studies from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA from Columbia University, School of the Arts. Tajima’s work examines the bodily and psychic experience of power in contemporary life. Through a research-based practice, Tajima focuses on how the human body, actions, and emotions are shaped by ortho-architectonic and computational technology. In creating heightened sensorial and material experiences, her installation and objects underline the dynamics of control, performance, and freedom and the agency of being uncontainable.
Selected solo shows include Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey (2018); AFTER LIFE at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (2017); SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY (2016); Human Synth at Taro Nasu, Tokyo (2015); Total Body Conditioning at Art in General, NY (2014); Negative Entropy at 11R, NY (2014); and The Double at The Kitchen, NY (2008).
Tajima has exhibited widely in the US and internationally, including exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; South London Gallery; Whitney Museum of American Art; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; The Seattle Art Museum, WA; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; and Sculpture Center, NY.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; and Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, France, among others.
In addition to Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, Mika Tajima is represented by Taro Nasu, Tokyo, and Van Doren Waxter, New York.
