Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1968, Tanada graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts with an MA in sculpture in 1995 and stayed in Berlin for an overseas study program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2001. In contemporary sculpture, Tanada is an artist who inherits the technique of wooden Buddhist sculptures known as “ichiboku-zukuri” in the Nara to Heian periods by digging through a single block of wood. He often uses boys and girls as motifs, depicting poses that emphasize their immature body shapes and delicate silhouettes express a different aesthetic sense from the massive sculptures in Western art. Tanada’s major solo exhibitions include the “Commemorating the 30th Denchu Hirakushi Award: Give breadth to boundary, Love to space” (Ibara City Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Okayama, 2022), “Eleven Boys, One Girl” (The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, 2008), “Rise” (Nerima Art Museum, 2012 and Itami City Museum of Art, 2013), etc. He received the 30th Hirakushi Denchu Award in 2022 and the Special Prize at “the 8th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art” in 2005. He is a guest professor at the Department of Sculpture in Musashino Art University, and his works are held in the collections of the National Museum of Art (Osaka), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, and other museums in Japan and abroad. His public art is also installed at places such as the Itami City Hall.