Carlos Runcie-Tanaka

A one-time philosophy major at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Carlos Runcie Tanaka chose instead to dedicate himself to the art of pottery making, undertaking studies in Brazil, Italy and Japan. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Latin America, the United States, Japan and Italy, and has participated in group and other collective exhibitions in Peru and abroad, representing his country in contemporary art exhibitions such as the 4th and 5th Havana Biennial (1991 and 1994); the I, II, IV and V Bienal Barro de América, Caracas, Venezuela (1992, 1995, 2001, 2004); the I Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Peru (1997); the 49th Venice Biennale (2001); the 8va Bienal de Cuenca and the 26th São Paulo Biennial (2004); the São Paulo-Valencia Biennial Encuentro entre Dos Mares, Valencia y Sagunto, España (2007), the Primera Trienal de Chile (2009) and the 12th Havana Biennial - Museo Orgánico Romerillo, Cuba (2015).

In the US, his work is in the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), the World Bank Art Collection, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Art Collection in Washington, D.C.; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; The Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), TX. Also, in the Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; the Museo Paraguayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Asunción, Paraguay; the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador and the Royal Museums of History and Art, Brussels, Belgium. In Peru, his work is in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Arequipa; the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima.