Bryn Mawr College, BA (Fine Arts/East Asian Studies)
1997
The Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Training Program, Post-Graduate Apprentice
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Pace Gallery (New York, NY) Energetics
Hill Art Foundation (New York, NY) Super Natural
2023
Yu-Un Foundation (Tokyo, Japan)
Art Basel Unlimited (Basel, Switzerland) You Be My Body For Me
2022
Pace (Geneva) Air Max
Taro Nasu (Tokyo) Spectral
Dazaifu Tenmangu (Fukuoka) Appear
Kayne Griffin (Los Angeles) YOU MUST BE FREE
2021
Kayne Griffin (Los Angeles) Pranayama (Monolith, F, Rose Quartz)
Simon Lee Gallery (London) REGULATION
2019
Kayne Griffin Corcoran (LA) PSYCHO GRAPHICS
Art Production Fund (LA) PSYCHO GRAPHICS
2018
Francesca Minini (Milan) ULTERIOR
Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul) Æther
2017
Taro Nasu (Tokyo) TOUCHLESS
Raster (Warsaw) AIR
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum (Connecticut) After Life
Three Star Books (Paris) Force Touch
2016
Sculpture Center (New York) Meridian (Gold)(commission)
Protocinema (Istanbul) Emotion Commune
11R (New York) Embody
2015
Taro Nasu (Tokyo) Human Synth
2014
Art in General (New York) Total Body Conditioning
Eleven Rivington (New York) Negative Entropy
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
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
2005
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art (NY, NY) Echoplex
Collaborative Exhibitions
2022
Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) Charles Atlas: The Mathematics of Consciousness, stage design in collaboration with Chadha Ranch
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
2008
Artissima 15 at Lingotto Fiere (Turin, Italy) with New Humans
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Pace Gallery (Geneva, Switzerland) Inner Cosmos, Outer Universe
Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA) Breath(e): Toward Climate Change and Social Justice
2023
Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) World Classroom: Contemporary Art Through School Subjects
Para Site (Hong Kong) signals…瞬息
Pace (Palm Beach) Tropic of Cancer
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery (New York, NY) Quantum States
2022
moCa (Cleveland) Renée Green: Contact, FRONT International 2022 Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Hill Art Foundation (New York) No Forms, curated by Margot Norton
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco) Speculative Portraits
Taro Nasu Group Exhibition (Tokyo)
Centre Pompidou (Paris) Worlds of Networks
Hawai’i Triennial (Honolulu, HI)
2021
Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA) Inside Look
Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA) Neo-Abstraction
Hall Art Foundation (Reading, VT) Deep Blue, curated by Katherine Bradford
Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY) Ten Years
The Storefront (Bellport, NY) Friends and Family Show
2020
Taro Nasu (Tokyo) gesture, form, technique V
Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Los Angeles) Sculpture
Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Los Angeles) Painting
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia) Fabric As…
2019
Okayama Art Summit 2019 (Okayama, Japan) IF THE SNAKE
The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA) Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
2018
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York) The Mechanics of Fluids
Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center (Los Angeles) Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists
2017
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin) L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte
Palais de Tokyo (Paris) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2016
11th Gwangju Biennale (Korea) The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)
Austrian Cultural Forum (New York) DIS-PLAY / RE-PLAY
2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) Office Space
University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries (Storrs, CT) Painting@ The Very Edge of Art
CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art (New York) Incorporate Me
2014
High Line Art (NY, NY) Pier 54
Frac Nord-Pas de Calais (Dunkirk, FR) New Generation
Eli Ping Frances Perkins (NY,NY) Soft Shock
University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries (Storrs, CT) Display
2013
Bureau (New York) New Humans
Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt
Soloway (NY,NY) The Fruit Loop
Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton,NY) Midori Mambo Black Russian (two-person exhibition w. Sam Moyer)
onestar press (Paris, France) (two-person exhibition w. 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 Museum of American Art (NY, NY) Whitney Biennial 2008
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
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
浅野佳子 (nico edit), “これまでの千年、これからの千年,” 太宰府自慢 ： 第九号, 太宰府市観光駐車場協会 , 太宰府天満具文化研究所, pp. 19-24. | Asano Yoshiko (nico edit), “A Thousand Years to Date, A Thousand Years to Come”, Dazaifu Pride: No. 9, Dazaifu Tourist Parking Lot Association, Dazaifu Tenmangu Cultural Research Institute, January 2023, pg. 19-24.
2022
Rozell, Mary, “Mika Tajima,” Reimagining: New Perspectives, UBS Art Collection, New York, 2022, pp. 65, 152.
Norton, Margot, “Margot Norton on Mika Tajima,” Highlights, Hill Art Foundation, New York, 2022, pp. 95-99.
Duarte, Nicole, “Mika Tajima,” Pacific Century – e Ho’omau No moananuiākea Hawai’i Triennial 2022, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2022, pp. 126–127.
Kataoka, Mami, et al. “In Search of Something Fundamental-Beyond Complexity, Contradiction, and Ambiguity.” Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, 2014. Exhibition text.
