Fumiha Tanaka is an artist and herbalist who grew up in Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore.
She landed in USA when she decided to study in Savannah College of Art and Design.
She lives, creates and studying plant language in Brooklyn NY.

She sometimes puts pictures on Instagram @fumihatanaka

Please contact for any questions, inquires, interest for purchasing artwork, or just to Hello:)
fmtishere@gmail.com

 

アーティスト、イラストレーター、デザイナー, ハーバリストの田中文葉は四季の国とトロピカルな国で育ち、
只今ニューヨークのブルックリンで活動しています。
小さいころからいろいろな文化と言語に触れたため、
自然と”コミュニケーション”について考えながら、絵、銅版画、陶芸を通して、
”人の心に触れる” 事を主に作品を造っています。
新しい言語として植物の言葉を学び中。

  Two and Three Person Show

  • 2010 "Pao Pao Nest" Fabric 8, San Francisco, CA

  • 2010 "Pao Pao Nest", Alternative Gallery, Monterey, CA

  • 2009 Metropolis Gallery, Lancaster, PA

  • 2008 "Charishables”, Bambi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

  • 2005 SAWAGUZO" Festival, Redux Art Studio, Charleston, SC

Group Exhibitions

2017

  • Get Well Soon. The Southerner gallery, Charleston, SC

  • Small Favors: Think Inside the Box. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

  • About Glamour Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015

  • GHP Artists Exhibition: Jane Hartsook Gallery, NY, NY

  • "Equus and Such" Mehu gallery, NY, NY

2014

  • GHP Artists Exhibition: Jane Hartsook Gallery, NY, NY

  • Japanese Young Artist Book Fair: Kinokuniya Book Store, NY, NY

2013

  • Japanese Apples, Usagi Gallery, Paris, France

  • Carrier Pigeon Magazine Release Show, EMOA Space Gallery, NY, NY

  • "Prints and Drawing", Mehu gallery, NY, NY

  • "From Plate to Paper: The Art of Printmaking", Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

2012

  • "RBPM 2012 Annual Member Show", 20/20 Gallery, NY, NY

  • Natsuga Kita~Summer is here!! Show,

  • San Quoi Gallery, Okayama Japan

  • "Waking up in a tutti frutti hat", Alterhative Gallery, Monterey, CA

  • "Fall/Winter 2012 Show" Presented by Jon Karen LIfestyle Arts, Singapore

  • "Guilty Pleasures", All About Us Art Show, Brooklyn, NY

2011

  • "Bad Luck Club", My Plastic Heart Gallery, NY, NY

  • "Bad Luck Club", Alternative Gallery, Monterey, CA

  • "Dear Japan ~170 Artists, 170 Messages", curated with Aya kakrda and Miwa Koizumi for Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Crisis Relief Benefit. New York, NY

2009

  • "Regime Change Show ", Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

  • "Delineations", Ad Hoc Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008

  • Diverse Chorus, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  • Munny Show, Redux Studio, Charleston, SC

2007

  • Benefit Auction, Hungarian Cultural Center, NY, NY

  • The Hive Gallery, Los Angels, CA

  • "v/a: A collection of works from a collection of friends",Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • "The Favorite Show", Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA

  • "The art of Propaganda", No Regrets art Gallery, Naugatuck, CT

  • "Collabro Show", The Showrrom, NY, NY

  • "Digital to Physical " 9th and LIberty, Jacksonville, FL

  • "Sk8 or DIE!!" Young Blood gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • "Time Capsule ", Toy Room Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2006

  • "New Year's Revolution II ", Old Navy Base, Charleston, SC

  • Halloween Show, Plaza Theatre, Atlanta, GA

  • "Sick and Loaded”,Hush Hush gallery and Lounge, San Francisco, CA

  • "La Foret Rustique-Salon Sombre ", CBGB Gallery, NY, NY

  • Art Party, Rockefeller University, NY, NY

  • Munny Show!, 53 Cannon Gallery, Charleston, SC

  • Flux Factory Auction & Gala, Lennon, Weinberg gallery, NY, NY

2005

  • "Seasons", Young Blood gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • “Distortion”, Cigar Factory, Charleston, SC

  • “Pieces of Sanity”, Charleston, SC

2004

  • “Rock for Choice”,Cigar Factory, Charleston, SC

  • “Yo! What Happened to Peace?”, USA, Italy, Japan

  • “Artspeak”, Charleston, SC

Lecture

  • 2005 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Publications

  • 2013 Carrier Pigeon

  • 2011 Drawing Inspiration

  • 2007 Play Magazine, New Haven, CT

  • 2007 "Yo What happened to Peace"

  • 2006 Charleston News Paper/Best of 2006

  • 2005 Charleston News Paper, "Sawaguzo show"

  • 2004 Barfly Magazine

  • 2004 Charleston News Paper, Artist profile

Installation

  • Window display at American Folk Art Museum for eeBoo Co., 2013

Experience

In House Art Director, Designer, and Crafter at eeBoo

Education

2002, BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA