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Mika Tajima (b. 1975) Holding Your Breath (Taking the Long Way) (2008) Dead by Third Act (2009) Mika Tajima (b. 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College (1997), an MFA from Columbia University (2003), and attended The Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Training Program (2003). Her work has been included in the exhibitions The Pedestrians, South London Gallery, London (2011); Transaction Abstraite, New Galerie, Paris (2011); Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (2011); The Double, Bass Museum, Miami (2010); Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, Long Island City (2010); Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009); The Extras, X Initiative, New York (2009); Learn to Communicate Like a Fucking Normal Person, Art Production Fund, New York (2009); Deal or No Deal, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami (2008); Dead By Third Act, Artissima 15, Torino, Italy (2008); 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); Mika Tajima: Broken Plaid/Holding Your Breath (taking the long way), RISD Museum, Providence (2008); The Double, The Kitchen, New York (2008); One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2008); Mika Tajima, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland (2007); New Humans: Disassociate, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (2007); Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Music Is a Better Noise, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2006); Grass Grows Forever in Every Possible Direction, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2005); Echoplex, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (2005); and Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2005). She is part of the music-based performance group New Humans. RELATED RESOURCES: New Humans in UbuWeb Sound