Tamana
Araki
Media:
Mixed Media, Drawing
Studio Location:
10-10 44th Ave, LIC, 6Floor
Room/Studio#
Studio 7
Website:
Artist Bio:
ARAKI TAMANA
Live and works in New York, USA.
2022 Granted from Queens Arts Council
2010 Awarded a scholarship from Mexican government to stay and work in Mexico for one year
2004-05 Granted from The Pola Art Foundation to study at National Center for the Arts in Mexico for one year
1995-97 Musashino Art University [BA]
1993-94 University of Mexico (UNAM) [Visiting Student]
1989-1991 Junior College of Musashino Art University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Adrift, WATERMARK ARTS & CRAFTS, Tokyo, Japan
2023 From the depths of Ueno, a story begin-Tamana Araki, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
2022 Itinerant Eyes, Culture Lab LIC, New York, U.S.A.
2018 Imprint MACHIDA 2018: -Tamana Araki- Spinning Cocoon Memories, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts,Tokyo
2011 Invisible, Gallery Jin, Tokyo
2008 MAM Project 008:荒木珠奈, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2006 Rainbow Snake, EXHIBITION SPACE
2005 El ombligo de la luna, Galería El Estudio, Mexico City
2000 Far Away Forever, EXHIBITION SPACE, Tokyo
1998 The Journey, Gallery ART SOKO, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 E/AB Fair’16, Tunnel Chelsea, NYC
2016 The London Original Print Fair 2016, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art on Paper 2016, Pier 36, NYC
2011 Silent narrator: on plural stories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2002 Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws From Tradition, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Public Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/ Hamada Children’s Museum of Art / Musashino Art University Museum&Library
Artist Statement:
Tamana Araki’s works of art span emotion-provoking installations, poetic etchings, playful sculptures, and children’s books. As a Japanese artist based in Queens, New York, her large-scale installations create immersive spaces where memory and perception intertwine. As a young adult, her artistic voice evolved as she studied art in Mexico City. There she was influenced by the country’s rich cultural diversity and natural landscapes.
Araki’s work explores human existence through migration. As an immigrant artist, she is compelled to look deeply at traces left behind, to imagine the path others have lived, and to listen to echoes of objects and memories. During this tumultuous period in our country, recurring motifs in Araki's work seem more significant than ever. Paths, houses, and boats evoke presence and absence, movement and continuity, reflecting migration as a lived and relational experience rooted in everyday New York City life.
