The Japan Foundation is proud to announce that the artist Koki Tanaka will represent Japan for the Japan Pavilion at the 55^th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Based in Los Angeles, Tanaka’s diverse art practices spans many media, revealing the multiple contexts latent in the most simple of everyday acts, and his work has been widely shown both in and outside Japan. The curator representing Japan will be Mika Kuraya, Chief Curator of the Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo.