Yasushi Ikejiri is a contemporary expressionist influenced by a wide range of landscape painters including Edward Hopper, Peter Doig, and 19th Century Russian masters. Ikejiri draws on mundane scene of everyday life in Tokyo to craft works full of astonishing detail and saturated color. His paintings are in refreshing contrast to the current art market where techniques are overlooked by attention-getting subjects. Ikejiri’s painstaking style and modest choice of subject matter reminds us of the pure, celebratory joy found in landscape paintings.
Profile
【Awards】
| Born in Hokkaido, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 1991 | Graduated Toyo Institute of Arts & Design |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2018 | Solo Exhibition (Nagoya Matsuzakaya, Aichi) |
| 2017 | Art Fair Tokyo 2017 (Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Solo Exhibition (Kichijoji Tokyu, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Solo Exhibition (Ikebukuro Tobu, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Art Fair Tokyo 2014 (Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo) Yasushi Ikejiri Oil paintings: Aruyoude Nai, Demo Yappari Aru Fukei (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2013 | Solo Exhibition (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2020 | Online Exhibition “Jo Sai Sho Fuku (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck) : Gods and Yokai in the Time of Pandemic” (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2019 | REIMAGINED: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TAKE ON THE TALE OF GENJI (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) Seattle Art Fair (CenturyLink Field Event Center, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Seattle) |
| 2015 | SENSU-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Kaiga ichi (Funabashi Tobu, Tokyo) Hyakki Yako-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued until 2019) |
| 【Publications】 | |
| 2014 | Book-cover design “Kimi wo Oboeteiru” (CHUOKORON-SHINSHA, INC., 2014) |
| 2005 | Picture book ”Ue no Ue Saki no Saki” (Bungeisha Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2009) |
| 【Awards】 | |
| 2008 | Selected for International Prize for Illustration Bologna Children’s Book Fair |
Exhibitions
Something Precious Exhibition -Water-
07/12/2015(mon) - 22/12/2015(tue)
Something Precious, the 6th edition
05/12/2014(fri) - 23/12/2014(tue)
Something Precious: Heisei
07/12/2018(fri) - 22/12/2018(sat)
Hiroyuki Aoyama, Yasushi Ikejiri, Yo Ishihara, Haruomi Izumi, Sayaka Imai, Yoshiro Iwaisako, Eri Iwasaki Akifumi Okumura, Satoko Ogura, Yuichi Kashima, Emi Katsuta, Sanami Shimada, Shiki Taira Kengo Takahashi, Mami Takyu, Taro Tasaki, Toru Tanno, Kouki Tsujimoto, Junya Tsujimoto, Maria Noto Yukiko Hata, Naho Hanawa, Toru Fukuda, Haruka Miyano, Eri Muranaka, Yohei Yashima, Raizo Yamasaki, Ami Yamashiro, Yasushi Yokoiyama, Miharu Yokota, Kaz Watabe