Kanako Tada is an artist based in Vienna.
Ekkyo Kaiga 越 境 絵 ） 画
exophpny painting
self-portrait,2018↗️↗️↗️
selfuportraitou,2023⇆ 
b. 1989
Education
2017 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Contextual painting enrolled
2015 MA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2013 Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea exchange
2012 BA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Sole exhibitions
2023 sentencestress, LAVENDER OPENER CHAIR, Tokyo
2017 blind, Vacuum Gallery, Beijing
2016 voice, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
2015 vulnerable, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai
2014 I’m in love, I’m alone, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
Group exhibitions
2024 living library of becomings, VBKÖ, Vienna
2023 HAKONIWA, Glass and Geibun Project（GGP), Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Crossing Uncertainty, Galerie KRAS, Vienna
2022 AN DER TAFEL, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna
My Collection and Me, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
2021 ◯◯life, SET Lewisham, London, UK
Undoing Landscape, Erste Campus, Vienna
Undoing Landscape, xhibit, Vienna, academically affiliated
2020 15th anniversary exhibition, art space LOOP HOLE, Tokyo
distance to the painting, art space LOOP HOLE, Tokyo
2019 Vertical River,ak46,Vienna
Parallax Trading, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
2018 IN WITH THE NEW, VBKÖ, Vienna
DAS JUB JUB, art space5020,Salzburg
Painter Plumber, Justice, off-space at University of applied arts, Vienna
Your pressure is my pleasure, Academy of fine arts, Vienna
2016 Seasidepoolside, Inage Public Pool Park, Chiba pref, JP
Ongoing collective, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
Firewall, No Gate Gallery, Beijing
2015 Welcome to the real world, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
Railroadsiding2015, former lunch meal center, Tokorozawa city, Saitama, JP
2014 Tugihagi-amamori, Eikyu-theater, Oita, Japan
Kyotarou Hakamata, Ryu Takeda and Kanako Tada, gallery FAL, Tokyo
As if you wish, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
2013 Sunshine and Air, Zamworl Museum of Art, Jeolla Province, South Korea
2012 Think of place, Blanclass, Kanagawa, JP
Territory where we are doing each action, Gallery Den, Tokyo
Our generation is in like a : between cassettes and iPods, Shatow Koganei, Tokyo
Artist in Residence
2024 Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos,Portugal
2021 Art Circle Slovenia, Hotel San Martin, Šmartno, Slovenia
2017 Red Gate Residency, Beijing
2016 Red Gate Residency, Beijing
2015 Pantocrator Galley, Shanghai
Bank ART studio NYK, Kanagawa, JP
2013 Zamworl Museum of Art, Jeolla Province, South Korea
Prizes and Grants
2021-2022 Grants for Overseas Study Programme for Young Artists, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, JP
2020-21 Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, The Pola Art Foundation, Fellowship, JP
2017 Hiroshima Scholarship for students study abroad, Hiroshima
2017 Red Gate Residency, studio grant, CN
2015 Musashino Art University graduation works prize, Tokyo
2015 KAKEHASHI project, United States, Japan Foundation
2013 Musashino Art University encouragement scholarship for students to study abroad, Tokyo
Curation
2023 Crossing Uncertainty, Galerie KRAS, Vienna
2019 Vertical River,ak46,Vienna
Art Fairs, Evens, Talks, and Organizes
2021 open studio, ANNABEL, Vienna, Organize
2021 Gitarre und Dichtung, organize: Takashi Doi, Bio-Meisel Kulturwirthaus, Vienna
2021 Undoing Landscape, PARALLEL VIENNA Editions 21, Vienna, Art Fair
2020 the translation of Ernst Jandl’s Viennese lyrics into Japanese
with Ann Cotten, from the series CONVERSATIONS, CHRISTINE KÖNIG GALLERY, Vienna, Conversations
2017 Screening: Maiko Jinushi at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Organize
2015 The words are included our feels with Momoko Nakamura and Aya Momose, former lunch meal center, Tokorozawa city, Saitama prefecture, JP-Organise and Conversation
Publications and Contributions
2023 Love is Considerable, text and illustration, Migrazine2023/1, online magazine, Vienna
2021 Sense of Place, essay, The Inhabitants: Adopt a Project, online article, Bandung
2021 Reexploring Kanji Body System, with Ann Cotten, The New Alphabet volume 1, HKW-Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Spector Books, ISBN:978-3-95905-453-9
2019 Don’t Stop Chatting, Interview with Aya Momose x Kanako Tada x Mai Endo, Multipul Spirits vol.2, ISBN:978-4-9910-805-0-0
2017 untitled, poetry, Multipul Spirits vol.1
2015 Time will tell, essay, railroad siding2015