Yoichi Tanabe was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1949. In 1957 he moved to Tokyo, where he completed Political Science studies at the University Waseda. In 1974 he completed a postgraduate artistic study of human anatomy at the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo. From 1975 through 1978 he worked for the National Parliament’s library, and from 1979 through 1986 he participated in numerous solo exhibitions in a variety of Tokyo art galleries, and became Professor of Drawing in the Bunka Fashion College, Tokyo.
In 1988 Tanabe moved to Sitges, a small town on the Catalan coast near Barcelona, Spain. He...
