Born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1983, Tanji now resides in Okinawa Prefecture. In 2009, she received an MA in Sculpture from the Environmental Design Major of the Graduate School of Formative Arts at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Using the everyday spaces within buildings as a motif, she uses found objects such as construction materials and household items to create assemblage pieces which serve as temporary structures examining the relationships between people and things, or between people and the environment. At the same time, she is concerned with the structures born out of social dynamics and the personal events that such structures obscure, creating works which attempt to shake up people’s perceptions of objects and sense of place.