Born in Gunma, Japan, in 1977.
Tamura’s art career began from the early age of 15 when he started drawing Manga and soon signed a contract with the publisher Shūeisha.
In 2003 his first manga, Fudegami (JUMPCOMICS, Shūeisha) was published in a very popular monthly magazine called “Gekkan Shōnen Jump”.
After achieving success in his homecountry, Tamura also started to get international acclaim for his works. From 2011, he started exhibiting at Art Fairs worldwide and being invited to give guest lectures and workshops at various events and manga schools.
In 2014 he held a solo exhibition at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence and at the kyas art salon in amsterdam. In the same year, Tamura made a fruitful collaboration with the fashion brand “McQ Alexander McQueen” for the woman Autumn-Winter collection 2014.
A year later, in 2015 Tamura challenged himself by live painting huge murals at POW WOW JAPAN (Tennouzu Air) and at Angouleme International Manga Festival, France.
From 2016 Tamura started a collaboration project with a Ukrainian photographer Marfa Vasilieva. Through this project, called “Takamagahara”, he explored Manga bodypainting in combination with photography as an art form.
In 2017 Tamura participated to multiple solo expositions, in Shinjuku Takashimaya, Japan, as well as in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
IN 2018-2019 he went back to his origins anD workED on a manga titled “Devil’s Relics” written by Maitre Gims Darcy and JD Morvan released nationwide by Glenat in France.
In 2003 his first manga, Fudegami (JUMPCOMICS, Shūeisha) was published in a very popular monthly magazine called “Gekkan Shōnen Jump”.
After achieving success in his homecountry, Tamura also started to get international acclaim for his works. From 2011, he started exhibiting at Art Fairs worldwide and being invited to give guest lectures and workshops at various events and manga schools.
In 2014 he held a solo exhibition at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence and at the kyas art salon in amsterdam. In the same year, Tamura made a fruitful collaboration with the fashion brand “McQ Alexander McQueen” for the woman Autumn-Winter collection 2014.
A year later, in 2015 Tamura challenged himself by live painting huge murals at POW WOW JAPAN (Tennouzu Air) and at Angouleme International Manga Festival, France.
From 2016 Tamura started a collaboration project with a Ukrainian photographer Marfa Vasilieva. Through this project, called “Takamagahara”, he explored Manga bodypainting in combination with photography as an art form.
In 2017 Tamura participated to multiple solo expositions, in Shinjuku Takashimaya, Japan, as well as in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
IN 2018-2019 he went back to his origins anD workED on a manga titled “Devil’s Relics” written by Maitre Gims Darcy and JD Morvan released nationwide by Glenat in France.
1977年群馬県生 日本人
15歳よりマンガを描き始め、集英社「月刊少年ジャンプ」誌上にて2003年にマンガ『筆神』（JUMPCOMICS、集英社）を連載。
15歳よりマンガを描き始め、集英社「月刊少年ジャンプ」誌上にて2003年にマンガ『筆神』（JUMPCOMICS、集英社）を連載。
2011年より世界各地でのアートフェアへの絵画出展を開始する傍ら、イベントやマンガ学校などからの要請によるワークショップも開催している。
2014年にはフィレンツェのメディチ・リッカルディ宮殿で絵画展を開催するとともに、ロンドンのファッションブランド「McQ Alexander McQueen」2014秋冬レディースコレクションにデザインを提供。
2014年にはフィレンツェのメディチ・リッカルディ宮殿で絵画展を開催するとともに、ロンドンのファッションブランド「McQ Alexander McQueen」2014秋冬レディースコレクションにデザインを提供。
2015年には、POW WOW JAPAN（天王洲アイル）、アングレーム国際マンガ祭（フランス）にて巨大壁画をライブペイント。
2016年からウクライナの写真家Marfa Vasilievaとのコラボレーション「高天原プロジェクト」として、人体へのマンガ・ボディペイント作品も発表している。
2018-2019年、フランスGLENAT社でMAITRE GIMS・DARCY原作、JD MORVAN脚本のマンガ「DEVIL’s RELICS」作画を担当。フランス全土で発売された。
2017年及び2020年、新宿高島屋で絵画個展。2018年アムステルダム巡回展。2021年にはwinsor & newton社から"our featured artist"に選抜された。
2022
EXHIBITION AT ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA, FUKUOKA, JAPAN
2021
exhibition at "art art kobe", Daimaru kobe department store, kobe, Japan
exhibition at "啓蟄を待ちわびて" at SHINJUKU TAKASHIMAYA DEPARTMENT STORE, TOKYO, JAPAN
2020
SOLO EXHIBITION "ICON-TACT -マンガの新しい地平-" at SHINJUKU TAKASHIMAYA DEPARTMENT STORE, TOKYO, JAPAN
2019
WALL PAINTING FOR JAPANESE RESTAURANT "EZO" IN OSLO, NORWAY
I氏コレクション展「今どきアート2019 つなぐ・比べる」展示 富岡市美術博物館、gunma,japan
2018
INTERVIEW at MANGA DAX, DAX, FRANCE
SUMMER LECTURE at LUCCA MANGA SCHOOL, LUCCA, ITALY
2017
SOLO EXHIBITION "TAKAMAGAHARA" at SHINJUKU TAKASHIMAYA DEPARTMENT STORE, TOKYO, JAPAN
Special lecture at Takarazuka Univ. Shinjuku campus with Marfa Vasilieva
exhibition and workshop at "meet the art", gostin, poland
lecture at Katedra Grafiki Interdyscyplinarnej Akademia Sztuki, Szczecin, poland
2016
EXHIBITION at European Parliament, Strasbourg, FRANCE
WORKSHOP at MANGA DAX 2016, DAX, FRANCE
EXHIBITION at CONTEXT NEW YORK ARTFAIR, NEW YORK, USA
EXHIBITION at ROTTERDAM CONTEMPORARY ARTFAIR, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
LIVEPAINTING at Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême, FRANCE
2015
workshop at lucca comics & games 2015 with lucca manga school
exhibition at Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, england
exhibition at affordable art fair new york, new york, usa
exhibition at art hampton artfair, new york, usa
exhibition at Rotterdam contemporary artfair, rotterdam, the netherlands
LIVEPAINTING at Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême, FRANCE
2014
LivePainting at START, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France
2013
2012
Collaboration bicycle painting with Daccordi for L'eroica, San Miniato, Italy.
Exhibition at Scope Basel 2012, Basel, Switzerland.
Exhibition at Zona Maco by Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.
Exhibition at The Armony Show, New York, USA.
2011
Exhibition at Art Platform, Los Angeles, USA.
Exhibition at Art Taipei 2011 by Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Exhibition at The Volta Show, Volta 7, Basel, Switzerland.
Exhibition at Zona Maco by Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.
Release of Heroes in Sengoku Manga by Gakken Education Publishers.
2010
個展「田村吉康の世界展」 （西武沼津店）
2009
2008
2006
Exhibition at World Artist Festival, Seoul, Korea.
2004
2002
2001
マンガ短編集「筆神」発売 （JUMPCOMICS・集英社）
2000
Assistant work at Masanori Katakura`s Go Da Gun, up to circa 2002.
1997
Assistant work at Yuko Asami`s Wild Half, up to circa 2000.
Debut as a professional Manga Artist in Jump Magazine by Shueisha Company, Tokyo, Japan.