About
Ayumi Tanaka is a Japanese-born visual artist based in New York. Using found photographs, self-portraits, and household items, she engages in photomontages that focus on themes of memory and psychological experience. She constructs three-dimensional dioramas, composed of overlapping multiple layers of photo collages, assembled and photographed to depict psychological landscapes.
Tanaka’s work has been shown in exhibitions including The Noguchi Museum in New York and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (Aperture).
She earned her BFA from Osaka University of Arts in Japan and studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. She is the recipient of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographer to Watch, International Center of Photography Director Fellowship, and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Tanaka's works have been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
She is represented by The Third Gallery Aya in Osaka, Japan.