Atsuko Tanaka

Tanaka has been a Japanese avant-garde artist. She was a central figure of the Gutai Art Association from 1955 to 1965. In her post-Gutai period, Tanaka mainly created large paintings, applying synthetic resin enamel paints to horizontally laid canvases. She developed unique motifs of colorful circles and intertwining lines from her earlier drawings inspired by Electric Dress and Bell.

Atsuko Tanaka's work is included in a number of internationally important public collections, including that of the MoMA in New York. Tanaka was highlighted as a pioneer of abstraction in the exhibition "Women in Abstraction", curated by Christine Macel and shown at the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2021.