1936
Born in Kyobashi ,Tokyo , Japan .
1958
Musashino Art University, Tokyo , Japan.
1975
Installed as the first Art Director of “PLAYBOY” (Japanese Edition)
1991
Became a professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design, where he is currently a chairperson of a Faculty of Information Design
Present
Lives and works in Tokyo.
Solo Exhibition
2009
“SPIRAL 2”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“KANNOOON”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo
2008
“DAYTRIPPER”, Art & Public _Cabinet PH), Geneva
“ArtHK08”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo
“SPIRAL”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“COLORFUL”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo
2007
“DAYDREAM”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo
2006
“TANAAMISM”, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
“Layers of Keiichi Tanaami”, Gallery AUBE, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
“Keiichi Tanaami _ KAMON”, Paul Smith 9 Albemarls Street Shop, London
2005
Solo Exhibition, Transplant Gallery, New York
“Films of Keiichi Tanaami and Graphic 100”, the Norwegian International Film Festival, Norway
2004
“DISCO UNIVERSITY with Naohiro Ukawa”, KPO Kirin Plaza Osaka, Japan
“TANAAMI’S BEAUTY PARADE”, Naruyama Gallery, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami _ Ascension Furniture”, graf media gm, Osaka
“Keiichi Tanaami - Ascension Furniture + Fantastic City”, EX’REALM, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami _ Big Playground City”, IDEE, Kyoto
2003
“Collage of FLOWERS by Keiichi Tanaami”, Art Space Eumeria, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami-GET BACK”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
2002
“Tactile Sensibility of the Age-Keiichi Tanaami Graphic Works 1967-2002”, D’s Gallery, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
“Keiichi Tanaami 3000 Drawings”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami-Goldfish Lurking in a Glorious View”, graf media gm, Osaka
“Keiichi Tanaami-Legends of Volupte 1971-2002”, Uplink Factory, Tokyo
2001
“Keiichi Tanaami BLOW UP Launch Exhibition”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
“Goldfish Exhibition by Keiichi Tanaami”, Tokyo International Forum・Exhibition space, Tokyo
2000
“Keiichi Tanaami Graphic Works in the 60’s”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
1998
“Variation by Dry-Point”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo
1996
“Keiichi Tannami-100 Prints”, Chukyo University C-Square, Nagoya
1995
“Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition-Resembling”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition-Travel for Memories”, Bokushin Gallery, Tokyo
1994
“Keiichi Tanaami-Works of Print 1967-1994”, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
“Keiichi Tanaami’s Film-Image of Memory”, AV Hall, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
1992
“The World of Keiichi Tanaami”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka
1991
“SPIRAL FOREST-2”, Nogizaka Art Hall, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami Print Exhibition - CELEBLATION OF THE FOREST”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1990
“LAW OF THE FOREST”, Seibu Hall, Shiga
1989
“New Works of Keiichi Tanaami - LAW OF THE FOREST”, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1987
“Keiichi Tanaami”, Annecy Chateau Museum, France
“THE HOUSE IN ACSENTION”, Plus Minus Gallery, Tokyo
1986
“THE HOLLYWOOD STARDUST”, Gallery 360°, Yurakucho Seibu Marion, Tokyo
“The World of Keiichi Tanaami - PASSAGE IN THE AIR”, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1985
“HYAKKA RYORAN (Bright With All Sorts of Flowers) _ Keiichi Tanaami 60’s Poster Exhibition”, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
1984
“BURNING IN THE EVENING SERIES”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo
1980
“GIKEIZUKAN (The Illustrated Book of Artificial View) SERIES”, Gallery Vivant, Tokyo
1979
“ANOTHER PARADISE OF ARTIFICE SERIES”, Ao Gallery, Tokyo
1977
“BOENKYO (The Mirror of Forgetting Childhood)” Serigraphy, Ao Gallery, Tokyo
1976
“YOUSHIKEI (Infantile Landscape)”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1974
“SUPER ORANGE OF LOVE SERIES”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1972
“Films by Keiichi Tanaami”, Tenjo-Sajiki-kan, Tokyo
“Clockwork Marilyn”, Gallery Décor, Tokyo
1971
“Keiichi Tanaami - CELLULOID BORN IN AMERICA”, Gallery Décor, Tokyo
“Cinema Demonstration”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
1965
“Keiichi Tanaami - SERIES ORDER MADE”, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo
1959
“Formative Art of Light by Metallic Art”, Ginza Sato Gallery, Tokyo
1958
“Metallic Art for Open-air Murals”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2009
“ARTHK09”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
“Art Basel”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“Dream Empire” with Pete Flower, Paul Smith Gallery Aoyama
“Art@Agnes”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
2008
“Armony show”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“Art Basel”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“Fiac”, Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden /Berlin
“Art Fair Tokyo”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
2007
“Rock’n Roll Vol.1”, Norrkkoping Art Museum, Sweden
“Rock’n Roll Vol.2”, Sorlanders Art Museum, Norway
“Pulp 11”, Istefos Museet, Norway
“Art Fair Tokyo”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
“ShContemporary”, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
2006
“Festival de Cinema Japones _ Nippon Koma Exhibition”, Portugal
“Spoltore Ensemble 2005”, Italy
2005
“Melbourne International Film Festival”, Australia
2004
“The 50th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany
“Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland
“Vancouver International Film Festival”, Canada
2003
“Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland
“Image Forum Festival 2003”, Park Tower Hall, Tokyo
“Nashville Independent Film Festival”, U.S.A.
“Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto”, Japan Italy Center, Kyoto
“London International Film Festival”, UK
“Seihou Takeuchi VS Keiichi Tanaami”, ALBION Art Museum, Nara
2002
“Opt Mannierism Theater of Light Bands”, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo
“Image Experience Museum; Japanese Experimental Films 50’s _ 70’s”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
“Keiichi Tanaami + Nobuhiro Aihara Animation Battle in Kyoto”, AV Hall Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
“Hiroshima International Animation Festival”, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima
“Vancouver International Film Festival”, Canada
“Holland International Animation Film Festival”, Holland
2001
“VERSUS VOL.3 Keiichi Tanaami VS Naohiro Ukawa”, depot, Tokyo
2000
“JAGDA Poster Exhibition-DESIGN 2000”, Aichi International Design Center, Aichi, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
“The 6th Mumbai International Documentary”, Short Films, Animation Film Festival, India
“Japanese Short Animation”, France Culture Center, India
“Image Forum Festival 2000, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall”, Yokohama Art Museum. Kansai German Culture Center
“Period of Nissenbi-Japanese Graphic Design 1951-70”, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
1999
“OPTICAL SYNSESIS-New Psychedelic and Virtuality”, Yotsuya Image Forum, Tokyo
1998
“The 28th Finland Tampere International Short Film Festival”., Finland
“Art of the 20th Century; East and West”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka
“1960’s=Legendary Era _ Experimental Films Ever Seen”, Lecture Hall, Yokohama Art Museum, Kanagawa
“Visual Expansion of Photography”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
1997
“Hizikata Tsutsumi _ Art and Dance”, Ikeda 20th Century Art Museum, Shizuoka
1996
“Prints of the 70s”, Shibuya Shoto Art Museum, Tokyo
“Experiencing Art 1996; Survival Tools Designed by Artists”, Sakura City Art Museum, Chiba
1995
“Many Kinds of Flowers”, SUNTORY Museum, Osaka
“67 Graphic Sharaku”, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
“Japanese Experimental Animation”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
“Traces of Postwar Culture-Film History of Postwar 50 Years”, Oval Hall, Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka
1994
“History and Perspective of Imaging Arts”, International Newspaper Hall, Korea
“Contemporary Japanese Animation”, High Museum, U.S.A.
“The 40 Years History of Japanese Experimental Films”, Kirin Plaza, Osaka
“Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Art”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
1992
“Aspects of a Small Group; Formation of the Postwar Art 1961-1969”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
“Chiba City’s New Permanent Collection from the History of Postwar Art”, Chiba City Gallery, Chiba
“ADAM & EVE (Magnetic Field of Sex)”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
“Retrospective 17 Years-50 Worlds of Beauty”, Ikeda 20th Century Museum, Shizuoka
1991
“Art is Fun---2”, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma
1990
“Design Specimen of the Last Dacade-1990”, Matsuya, Tokyo
“Genealogy of Optical Movie”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
1989
Polaroidart, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1988
“Evolution of Animation Movie _ Japanese Experimental Animation Today”, O-Museum, Tokyo
1987
“Annecy Animation International Film Festival”, Annecy France
“Paper Work Exhibition”, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia
“Japanese Illustration 1987”, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
“Japanese Avant-garde Art, History of Experimental Film”, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
“Poster Japan, Establishment and Development of Graphic Design”, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
1986
“Mannheim International Film Festival”, Mannheim, West Germany
1985
“The 4th Experimental Film Festival”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
“Japanese Experimental Film _ Tour Program”, Mid-west Film Center, U.S.A.
“CONTINUUM ’85 - Japanese Contemporary Art Australian Tour Program”, Kawasaki IBM Gallery, Tokyo, Pinacotheca Gallery, Australia
“Japanese Avant-garde of Future”, Genova, Italy
“Osnabruck Experimental Film Workshop”, West Germany
“Museum Theater _ An Approach to the New Image, Twenty Five Years of Japanese Experimental Film”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
“1964-1984 Japanese 20 Years of Cinema”, Australia Film Institute, Australia
1984
“Osnabruck Experimental Film Festival; Experimental Film Workshop”, Osnabruck, Germany
“Contemporary Japanese Poster”, York University Art Gallery, Canada
“Contemporary Japanese Posters”, Stratford City Art Museum, UK
“The 38th Edinburgh International Film Festival”, UK
“Mannheim International Film Festival”, West Germany
“Today’s Japanese Posters”, Art Curial, France
1983
“The 7th Hong Kong International Film Festival; Japanese Experimental Film Program”, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
“The 1st Japanese Experimental Film Show”, Chicago Institute of Arts, U.S.A.
“The 2nd Contemporary Art Festival _ Art & Technology”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
“The 3rd Australian Film Conference”, Melbourne, Australia
1982
“Today’s Illustration”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
“Invitation to Experimental Film; The Radicalism of Image Art”, The Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka
“20 Years of Japanese Experimental Film”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
“In Search of the Museum of Tomorrow”, The Hyogo Museum of Art, Hyogo
1981
“Japan Today”, ICA Gallery, London, UK
“Rotterdom International Film Festival”, Holland
“International Colorado Invitation Poster Exhibition”, Clara Hatten Gallery, U.S.A.
“Today’s Japanese Poster”, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Museum, U.S.A.
1980
“China Town Fantasia”, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo
“The Labyrinth of Creation”, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
1979
“Contemporary Japanese Animation - THE MAGICIANS IN DREAM, LAUGHTER AND ILLUSION”, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
“New Japanese Animation, Japan Society”, Film Forum, New York, U.S.A.
“Art Pop”, Ikebukuro PARCO, Tokyo
“The 3rd Lahti International Poster Biennale”, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
“Baghdad International Invitation Poster Exhibition”, Iraq
“The 4th Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo
“The 3rd London International Avant-Garde Film Festival”, London, UK
1978
“Quebec International Art Critics Film Festival”, Canada
“The 8th Bruno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia
“JUST ANIMATION, Shibuya PARCO Gallery”, Tokyo
“Modern Satirical Drawings and Various Expression of Today”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
“The 7th Warszawa International Poster Biennale”, Poland
“Rostock International Invitation Posters”, Rostock Museum, East Germany
“Japanese Experimental Cinema”, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
“Colorado International Invitation Poster”, Colorado University, U.S.A.
“Japanese Experimental Cinema”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
1977
“Media Art”, Seibu Museum, Tokyo
“Private Film-1967-1977”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
“THE PRINTS _ What is Plant?”, Shibuya PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
1976
“Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany
“New York Film Festival”, U.S.A.
Elites of Today, Central Museum, Tokyo
“Ottawa International Animation Film Festival”, Canada
1975
“Far From Cinema-Film Exhibition/Keiichi Tanaami + Toshio Matsumoto”, Seibu Theater, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
“The 3rd Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
“Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Germany
1974
“Laboratory of Image” by Japanese Contemporary Artists”, San Paulo Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil
“The 6th Brno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia
“New Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema”, Millennium Theater, U.S.A.
1973
“The 1st Underground Cinema New Works Exhibition”, Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1972
“Grabbing Films Video Week”, American Center, Tokyo
1971
“The 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
1970
“Posters of Contemporary Japan”, Durham University, UK
“COMMERCIAL GRAPHIC”, Melton Gallery, Tronto, Canada
1966
“The 2nd Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
“The 2nd Brno International Graphic Biennale”, Czechoslovakia
1965
“The 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival”, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
