Yukako Tanaka is a Japanese conceptual artist, working and living in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere in 2021 and was awarded the Princess of Wales Award 2018/19 (RCA/Contemporary Art Practice) in her first year.

She worked at UAL, Central Saint Martins, BA, Performance Design and Practice (Jan 2023-Jan 2024)as an associate lecturer and finished the PGCert (Teaching Program) at UAL, and she was awarded an Associate Fellow in Higher Education in Jun 2023 and Fellow in Higher Education in Jun 2024.

In 2023, she participated as a juror in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2023, which coincided with the result of winning the Emerging Prize in Aesthetica Art Prize 2022. In 2022, she was selected by Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022 and was the Finalist CIRCA X Dazed Class of 2022. She also had a solo exhibition, "Fluctuating Fluctuations: now= then here= elsewhere" at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (London). In 2020, she participated in the #SciCommHack, which took place at CERN, Geneva, as a member of the Ethereal Antimatter Challenge. Currently, she engages in the collaboration scheme "Transcending the Invisible" (23/25) at King’s College London, Department of Physics, Photonics and Nanotechnology Group.

Recent group exhibitions include: Braziers International Film Festival, Reading, UK (2024); Pragmata Collective “Speculative Land(e)scapes”, Silian Gallery, London (2024); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, Ferens Art Gallery Hull/South London Gallery, London (2022); Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, York Art Gallery, York, UK (2022); "Sunscreen", LUX Moving Image, London (2023); London Grads Now. 21, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021); Late Light 2019, King's College London, London (2019); and SICF20, Spiral Hall, Tokyo (2019).

Website: https://yukako-tanaka.com
Insta: @yukako_tanaka_