Artist
Shu Ikeda
Born 1979 in Hiroshima, Japan, Ikeda graduated with an art degree from Tokyo Zokei University in 2004. He currently lives and works in Tokyo. Using nature and urban landscapes as motifs, Ikeda has been producing works that traverse between painting and photography by creating unique shapes and voids out of photographs and using collage techniques.
Featured Works
2021
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
70 x 150 cm
2022
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
27 x 38cm
2020
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
74 x 104 cm
2019
cut-out photograph, mounted on acrylic
27 x 38 cm
2019
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
27 x 38 cm
2018
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
62 x 76 cm
2017
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
164 x 376 cm
2016
photographic collage, mounted on acrylic
180 x 270 cm
2015
cut-out photograph, mounted on paper
80 x 110cm (image: 56 x 86 cm)
CV
1979
Born in Hiroshima, Japan
2004
Graduated from painting course, Tokyo Zokei University
Lives and works in Tokyo
[Solo Exhibitions]
2022
Traces of Travel, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2019
Object and Image, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2018
Sight, Roppongi Hills A/D gallery / Tokyo
2017
Exhibition Voyage 1, SCENE / Tokyo
Reverse/Rebirth, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2015
In Between Places, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
VOID, Blindspot Gallery / Hong Kong
2012
From the Bloom to the Blank, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2011
Another Yesterday, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
Please Remember Me, Blindspot Gallery / Hong Kong
TWS-Emerging 2010 / trival today, transient tomorrow, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo / Tokyo
2010
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009 at Tokyo Metropolitan Building, Tokyo
2007
fragmentary time, atelier Kirigiris / Kanagawa
[Group Exhibitions]
2016
Contemporary Cityscapes, Roppongi Hills A/D gallery / Tokyo
2015
Nature Creations-Flowers-, Spiral Garden / Tokyo
2014
Summer Show, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2013
Why not live for Art? II 9 collectors reveal their treasure, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery / Tokyo
Light & Blindness, Maki Fine Arts / Tokyo
2010
Fragmented Emotions, Blindspot Gallery / Hong Kong
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2000-2009 10 years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
2009
WONDER SEED 2009, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya / Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2009, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Tokyo
2008
WONDER SEED 2008, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya / Tokyo
[Grants and Prizes]
2009
WONDER SEED 2009
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009, Mayor of Judge prize
New Cosmos of Photography 2009, Honorable Mention award
2008
WONDER SEED 2008
News
2022.03.04
Shu Ikeda – Yurakucho Window Gallery
