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
| Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1971 Lives and works in between Tokyo and Hokkaido, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 1991 | Graduated from Toyo Institute of Arts & Design |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2023 | Yasushi Ikejiri: New Paintings (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2021 | Yasushi Ikejiri: Here, There (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2018 | Solo Exhibition (Nagoya Matsuzakaya, Aichi) |
| 2017 | Art Fair Tokyo (Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Solo Exhibition (Kichijoji Tokyu, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Solo Exhibition (Ikebukuro Tobu, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Art Fair Tokyo (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】 | |
| 2022 | A Contemporary Pursuit of the Modern (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) PASSION!! (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) VOLTA New York（548 W 22nd Street, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, New York） |
| 2021 | NEW WAVE (Nagoya Sakae Mitsukoshi, Aichi) SCOPE Miami Beach（SCOPE Miami Beach Pavilion, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Florida） Exhibition of Time with Chopard (Chopard Boutique Ginza, Tokyo) JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 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) On This Shore (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) A SINGLE ANT BITE (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo 凸, Tokyo) |
| 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) The Red: Man (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | SENSU-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Kaiga ichi (Funabashi Tobu, Tokyo) Hyakki Yako-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) (Through 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
PASSION!!
09/12/2022(fri) - 21/12/2022(wed)
Yukiko Hata, Yasushi Ikejiri, Shizuka Kanno, Mieko Noguchi, Shunsuke Ochi, ETE PIN, Asako Tabata, Kengo Takahashi, Motohide Takami, Takayoshi Terajima, Yohei Yashima
A Contemporary Pursuit of the Modern
27/05/2022(fri) - 07/06/2022(tue)
Yasushi Ikejiri, Yoji Kumagai, Ken Shiozaki, Takako Yabuki, Yuki Yatsu
SEIZAN GALLERY & SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸 A SINGLE ANT BITE
11/12/2020(fri) - 22/12/2020(tue)
Hiroyuki Aoyama, Yasushi Ikejiri, Sayaka Imai, Haruomi Yukiko Hata, Izumi, Emi Katsuta, Mao Kawasaki, Yoji Kumagai, Shunsuke Ochi, Akifumi Okuyama, Tomoaki Shimohira, Asako Tabata, Motohide Takami, Keitoku Toizumi, Koki Tsujimoto, Kaz Watabe, Yohei Yashima, Yuki Yatsu
Online Exhibition “除災招福 Jo Sai Sho Fuku (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck) :Gods and Yokai in Time of Pandemic”
10/04/2020(fri) - 11/09/2024(wed)
Ruiji Aiba, Akie, Toshiyuki Enoki, Aki Fukui, Yukiko Hata, Yasushi Ikejiri, Eri Iwasaki, Haruomi Izumi, Takashi Kanazawa, Hiroshi Kanzaki, Emi Katsuta, Ryu Kitazawa, Yoji Kumagai, machumaYu, Yuko Murakoshi, Ayako Nakamura, Shunsuke Ochi, Akifumi Okumura, Ken Shiozaki, Kei Sugiyama, Asako Tabata, Shinya Tamai, Taro Tasaki, Kenki Tsujimoto, Koki Tsujimoto, Haruki Yamaba, Ami Yamashiro, Yuki Yatsu
The RED －Man－
11/10/2019(fri) - 24/10/2019(thu)
Hiroyuki Aoyama, Yasushi Ikejiri, Yoshiro Iwaisako, Shinji Ohya, Ryu Kitazawa, Yuki Koyano, Koki Tsujimoto