Mika Tajima

Born 1975 Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY
mikatajimastudio[at]gmail.com

• Group exhibition, “Stage Presence” at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), July 14-Oct 8, 2012
• Solo exhibition, “After the Martini Shot” at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), July 15-June 17, 2012
• Group exhibition, “Surface in Volume” at Luce Gallery, (Turin, Italy) Apr. 3-June 16, 2012
• Ongoing residency, The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA)

• Deep Focus w. Mary Ping at Seattle Art Museum
• This Long Century
• Mika Tajima in conversation with Richard Linklater
• Art21: Mika Tajima Wants to Hire Contortionists
• Art21: Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle
• Interview from collaboration with Charles Atlas 2011
• Interview with Art-It 2011
• Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima print edition
• Gallery exhibition, New York 2011
• 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 at Kunstlerhaus 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
• Domus Magazine excerpt
• “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

• 2011
• Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, CO) Pineapples and Pyramids
• 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

• 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

• 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
• United Bamboo (Tokyo, Japan) Yankee Doodle Flea Market
• M.Y. Art Prospects (NY, NY) video program Asian Contemporary Art Week
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (New York, NY) Interface in Your Face by Fia Backstrom
• 2005
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) Video in Person
• 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
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Long Island City, NY)
• Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Grass Grows Forever in Every Possible Direciton
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (New York, NY) Echoplex curated by Gabrielle Giattino
• Rush Arts (New York, NY) Recess: Images and Objects in Formalism
• Tonight we are Goldentouring video exhibition (United Kingdom)—ICA London, Castlefield Gallery at the King’s Arms Salford, Phoenix Arts Leicester, FACT Liverpool, March Side Cinema Newcastle upon Tyne, Outpost Norwich, Spike Island Bristol, Vivid Birmingham
• 2004
• United Bamboo Daikanyama (Tokyo, Japan) Solo Project video installation
• Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY) Project Space
• Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (NY, NY) New Humans: Grass grows forever in every possible direction featuring design collaboration with United Bamboo
• Global Consulting Group (NY, NY) Art in the Office
• 2003
• Tokyo Design Week (Tokyo, Japan) Container Exhibition
• Kenny Schacter Gallery (NY, NY) Club in the Shadow
• Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA) Surface Tension
• Maccarone, Inc. (NY, NY) New Humans presented by Sherman Magazine
• The Video Art Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) 25 Hrs
• 2002
• Stray Art Fair (Chicago, IL)
• Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art (Philadelphia, PA) Get Out
• Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA) Comfort Zone
• Neiman Gallery (NY, NY) Mondo Cane
• 2001
• Jeffrey, curated by Paul Ha (NY, NY) Changes
• 2000
• White Columns (NY, NY ) Foreign Body
• Borowsky Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) Decorate Seriously
• Parlour Projects (Brooklyn, NY) My Imaginary Friends
• Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) A Complement to Love
• 1998
• Jefferson Bank Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) Rrose Selavy
• Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA) Works in Progress: 8 Artists
• 1997
• Nexus: Center for Today’s Art (Philadelphia, PA) I Enjoy Being a Girl: Investigating Femininity in Women and Men
• Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (Haverford, PA) Four

• 2012
• Graves, Jen. “All the Trappings.” the Stranger, May 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.
• Coggins, David. “X Marks the Spot”. Mar. 7, 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.
• Goldstein, Richard. “Maximum Capacity.” http://whitehotmagazine.com Apr. 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.
• 2003
• Velez, Pedro. “Art Fair Future.” Artnet, December 12, 2003.
• 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.
• 1998
• Rice, Robin. City Paper (Dec.)
• 1997
• Osbourne, Judith. “Women, Men Explore Issues of Femininity.” Art Matters (Dec.)