Mika Tajima

Born 1975 Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY

Contact
mikatajimastudio[at]gmail.com

• Group Exhibition, Roppongi Crossing 2013 at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Sept 21, 2013-Jan 3, 2014
• Project, Charles Atlas and New Humans for Frieze Sounds 2013 (New York), May 10—13
• Residency, Creative Time Global Residency Program
• Residency, The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA)

• This Long Century
• Post Script at Book Machine/Pompidou
• Mika Tajima: Beton Brut Typeface
• Deep Focus w. Mary Ping at Seattle Art Museum
• Mika Tajima in conversation with Richard Linklater
• Art21: Mika Tajima Wants to Hire Contortionists
• Art21: Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle
• Art21: Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle (Spanish subtitles)
• Interview from collaboration with Charles Atlas 2011
• Interview with Art-It 2011
• Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima print edition
• Gallery exhibition, New York 2011
• Two-person show with Charles Atlas at New Galerie (Paris) 2011
• “The Pedestrians” collaboration with Charles Atlas, New Humans at South London Gallery project (with John Smith, Gaby Agis, Nina Power, and Richard Hornsey) 2011
• “The Pedestrians” collaboration at South London Gallery project 2011
• Onestar book 2010
• Interview Match w. Cecilia Alemani 2009
• Group show in Bregenz 2009
• “Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal” collaboration with Charles Atlas, New Humans at SFMoMA 2009
• Interview with Rhizome 2009
• UbuWeb Top Ten 2009
• “Dead By Third Act” project at Lingotto Fiat, Turin, Italy 2008
• “The Double” at The Kitchen 2008
• “The Double” exhibition at the Bass Museum, Miami 2010
• “Disassociate” exhibition 2007
• “Thin Line” exhibition at Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland 2006
• NEW HUMANS
• Recording “AKA”
• UBU viewable videos

• 2003
• Columbia University, School of the Arts, MFA
• 1997
• Bryn Mawr College, BA (Fine Arts/East Asian Studies)
• 1997
• The Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Training Program, Post-Graduate Apprentice

• 2013
• Galeria Quadrado Azul (Lisbon, Portugal) Total Body Conditioning
• 2011
• Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, CO) Pineapples and Pyramids (commission)
• UT Visual Art Center (Austin, TX) The Architect’s Garden
• Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA) After the Martini Shot
• Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY, NY) Mika Tajima
• 2010
• Bass Museum, (Miami, FL) The Double
• 2009
• X Initiative (NY, NY) The Extras
• 2008
• Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami, FL) Deal or No Deal
• Artissima 2008 (Torino, Italy)
• The Kitchen (NY, NY) The Double
• Centre for Opinions on Music and Art (Berlin, Germany) The Double
• 2007
• Circuit (Lausanne, Switzerland) Thin Line
• Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY, NY) New Humans: Disassociate

• 2013
• Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR) “Post Script” for Book Machine organized by Christophe Boutin and Melanie Scarciglia
• 2011
• South London Gallery (London, UK) The Pedestrians with Charles Atlas
• 2009
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA) Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal with Charles Atlas and New Humans
  
• 2007
• Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY, NY) New Humans: Disassociate with New Humans, Vito Acconci, José León Cerrillo, Philippe Decrauzat, C. Spencer Yeh

• 2013
• onestar press (Paris, France) two-person exhibition with Jimmy Raskin
• Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA) Paint Things
• Brand New Gallery (Milano, Italy) Beyond the Object
• 2012
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA) Stage Presence
• Luce Gallery (Turin, Italy) Surface in Volume
• Massimo De Carlo (Milan, Italy) New York: Directions, Points of Interest
• Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden) Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies
• 2011
• DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA) Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art
• The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)  Blur: Art /Design Cross Pollination
• IMO (Copenhagen, Denmark) I don’t know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly…
• Istituto Svizzero di Roma and Swiss Institute New York (Venice, Italy) Flags for Venice
• Rachel Uffner Gallery (NY, NY) Summer Whites
• Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, (NY, NY) Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming
• Calder Foundation Project (NY, NY) Maybe I should have called it ‘My Life in Nineteen Minutes’
• New Galerie (Paris, France) Transaction Abstraite (two-person exhib. w/ Charles Atlas)
• Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club (Miami, FL)
• 2010
• Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY, NY) Today I Made Nothing
• Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool curated by Bob Nickas (Bridgehamptom, NY)
• Lewis Gluckman Gallery, University College Cork (Cork, Ireland) Mixtapes
• Sculpture Center (Long Island City, NY) Knight’s Move
• 80WSE Gallery NYU (NY, NY) Passing Time
• Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden) Interference
• 2009
• Kuenstlerhaus Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria) Second Look (at the Surface)
• Marquise Dance Hall (Istanbul, Turkey) Blank/Bosluk
• Art Production Fund (NY, NY) Learn to Communicate Like a Fucking Normal Person
• 2008
• Whitney Biennial 2008 (NY, NY)
• RISD Museum (Providence, RI) Broken Plaid and other works
• Peter Blum Chelsea (NY, NY) Some Thing Else
• Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu, HI) One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
• 2007
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Sympathy for the Devil: Rock and Roll in Art
• Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, TX) Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice
• Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY) Stripes
• Herning Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark) Uncertain States of America
• Center for Contemporary Art Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Uncertain States of America
• 2006
• Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH) Bunch, Alliance and Dissolve
• Blaffer Art Gallery (Houston, TX) One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
• Reykjavik Art Museum (Reykjavik, Iceland) Uncertain States of America
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Long Island City, NY) Music is a Better Noise
• Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, OR) PICA Time-Based Art Fest
• Asia Society (NY, NY) One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
• Serpentine Gallery (London, UK) Uncertain States of America
• Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) Uncertain States of America
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (New York, NY) Interface in Your Face
• 2005
• Astrup Fearnley Museum (Oslo, Norway), Uncertain States of America curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), Musica Video Musica curated by Bob Nickas
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) Video in Person
• Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Grass Grows Forever in Every Possible Direciton
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (New York, NY) Echoplex
• Rush Arts (New York, NY) Recess: Images and Objects in Formalism
• 2004
• United Bamboo Daikanyama (Tokyo, Japan) Solo Project video installation
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (NY, NY) New Humans: Grass grows forever in every possible direction featuring design collaboration with United Bamboo
• 2003
• Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary  (NY, NY) Club in the Shadow
• Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA) Surface Tension
• Maccarone, Inc. (NY, NY) New Humans presented by Sherman Magazine
• Tokyo Design Week (Tokyo, Japan) Container Exhibition
• 2002
• Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA) Comfort Zone
• Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art (Philadelphia, PA) Get Out
• 2000
• White Columns (NY, NY ) Foreign Body
• Parlour Projects (Brooklyn, NY) My Imaginary Friends
• Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) A Complement to Love

• 2012
• “Mika Tajima Face A Maurizio Cattelan.” L’Officiel Art, Issue 6 / Fall-Winter 2012. Interview.
• “Mika Tajima.” LAURA, Issue 8, 2012. Interview.
• Maloney, Patricia. “Dress Rehearsal.” Art Practical, Aug. 2012. Interview.
• Graves, Jen. “All the Trappings.” the Stranger, May 2012.
• Schwarzbart, Judith. “Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies.” Art-Agenda, April 2012.
• 2011
• Deitsch, Dina. “Mika Tajima.” Performing Structures, 2011. Exhibition text
• Wisniewsk, Lara. “Mika Tajima.” Frieze, Nov-Dec. 2011.
• Kunimatsu, Susan. “After the Martini Shot: Mika Tajima at SAM.” International Examiner, Oct. 2011.
• Graves, Jen. “After the Boom.” the Stranger, Oct. 2011.
• Campbell, Andy. “500 Words: Mika Tajima.” Artforum.com, Sep. 2011.
• Chang, Aimee. “The Architect’s Garden.” Sep. 2011. Exhibition text.
• Jeffereis, Misa. “Mika Tajima: After the Martini Shot.” Sculpture Center Curator’s Notebook. Sep. 2011.
• Sanchez, Marisa. “After the Martini Shot,” July 2011. Exhibition text.
• Kley, Elisabeth. “Mika Tajima.” ArtNews, Apr. 2011.
• Hudson, Suzanne, “1000 Words: Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima.” Artforum, May 2011.
• Hansen, Rikke, “The Pedestrians.” Art Monthly, May 2011.
• Deutsch, Clayton, “Mika Tajima.” Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, 2011. Exhibition text.
• Chappa, Kristen, “Fire with Fire.” Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, 2011. Exhibition text.
• Staebler, Claire, “Transaction Abstraite – Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima.” 2011. Exhibition text.
• Toal, Drew, “Mika Tajima.” Time Out New York, Jan. 20-26, 2010.
• 2010
• Maerkle, Andrew, “Alienation Through Beautification, Engagement After Alienation.” Art iT, Sep. 2008.
• Griffin, Tim. “Today I Made Nothing.” Artforum Dec. 2010.
• Chamberlain, Colby. “Today I Made Nothing”. Artforum.com, Aug. 2010.
• “Knight’s Move.” The New Yorker, June, 12, 2010.
• Ryan, Bartholomew, “Mika Tajima.” Knight’s Move, 2010. Exhibition text.
• “Mika Tajima: The Double.” Revista Exclama, Edition 9, 2010.
• Austin, Tom. “Mika’s World”. Miami Herald, Apr. 4, 2010.
• 2009
• “Deal or No Deal: Mika Tajima.” One Star Press, 2009.
• Stone Sonnenborn, Katie. “Mika Tajima.” Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon Press Unlimited, 2009.
• “Nasce la X Foundation a New York”. Domus Web. Mar. 15, 2009.
• Moss, Ceci. “Breaking Things to Make Things: An Interview with Mika Tajima.” Mar. 6, 2009.
• Launay, Aude. “Mika Tajima“. Zero Deux, issue no. 49, 2009.
• Taubman, Lara. “Mika Tajima.” Modern Painters, March 1, 2009.
• 2008
• Carrion-Murayari, Gary. “Production Anxiety.” Domus Magazine, issue 915, June 2008.
• Everrtt Howe, David. “Mika Tajima: The Double.” Art Review, issue 23, June 2008.
• Momin, Shamim and Huldisch, Henriette, “Whitney Biennial 2008.” Yale University Press. Exhibition text.
• Currie, Nick. “Partition: The Spatial Logic of New Humans.” May 6, 2008.
• Hnilicka, Jeff. “Mika Tajima/New Humans.” May 28, 2008.
• Kley, Elisabeth. “Gotham Art and Theater.” Artnet. Apr. 18, 2008.
• Cotter, Holland. “Art’s Economic Indicator.” New York Times, Mar. 7, 2008.
• 2007
• Molon, Dominic, “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967.” Yale University Press. Exhibition text.
• Vogel, Carol. “Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory.” New York Times, Nov. 16, 2007.
• Egan, Maura. “Performance Upstart.” New York Times T Magazine, Dec. 2007
• Stone Sonnenborn, Katie. “New Humans.” Frieze Magazine, June 2007.
• Ventur, Conrad. “New Humans.” Useless Magazine, issue #5, Spring 2007.
• Smith, Roberta. “Dissociate.” New York Times, March 30, 2007.
• Bentley, Kyle. “Associative Property.” Artforum, Feb. 2007.
• 2006
• Smith, Roberta. “Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia.” New York Times, Dec. 29, 2006.
• Sennert, Kate. “The Art of Noise.” V Magazine, vol. 43, Fall 2006.
• Smith, Roberta. “A Melange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identites.” New York Times, Sept. 8, 2006.
• Shearer, Linda, et al. “Bunch Alliance and Dissolve.” Public-Holiday Projects with Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati.
• Smith, Roberta. “Endgame Rules: Borrow, Sample, Multiply, Repeat.” New York Times, July 7, 2006.
• Morton, Tom. “Uncertain States of America.” Frieze, March 2006.
• 2005
• Ridge, Tom. “New Humans (review),” Wire, 9/2005.
• Kvaran, Gunnar. “Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium”, Astrup Fearnley Museet.
• Baumes, Ben. “New Humans (review).” Repellentzine, June, 21, 2005.
• “The Museum as Amplifier.” Domus, issue 881, May 5, 2005.
• Giattino, Gabrielle.”Ones to Watch: New Humans.” Artkrush, Issue #04.
• 2004
• Armetta, Amoreen. “Along for the ride.” Time Out New York, March 11-18.
• 2002
• Sculpture Magazine. “Comfort Zone.” April, 2002.
• Sozanski, Edward. “Art in the Bag.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March, 1, 2002.
• Philadelphia Weekly, “Safety Pants.” Feb. 20, 2002.
• Architecture, March, 2002.
• Fallon, Roberta. “Zone-ing Out.” Philadelphia Weekly, Apr. 10, 2002.
• 2000
• Foreign Body, Time Out New York, Nov. 9, 2000.
• Sozanski, Edward. “The Art of Decoration.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 2000.
• R.F. “Department of the Interior.” The Philadelphia Weekly, Oct. 4, 2000.