Artists

Photography by TAKAHASHI Munemasa

IKEDA Manabu

1973 Born in Saga, Japan

1998 Tokyo University of the Arts, BFA in design

2000 Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA in design

2011 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Overseas Study Grant Recipient (Vancouver, Canada)

2013- Lives and Works in Madison, WI, USA


Solo & Two person Exhibitions

2017


“IKEDA Manabu The Pen -Condensed Universe”, Saga Prefectural Museum


traveled to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa / Takashimaya Nihombashi, Tokyo


 


2016


The Kagura Salon Ise-Jingu Shrine (Geku), Mie


Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A.


 


2014


Genten“, Gallery KART, Tokyo


 


2013


“Ikeda Manabu & Tenmyouya Hisashi”, Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A.


“IKEDA Manabu Exhibition”, G-tokyo, Tokyo Midtown


“Meltdown”, West Vancouver Museum, Canada


 


2010


“Focus,” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2009


The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano


 


2008


Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2006


” Landscape”, Mizuma Action, Tokyo


 


2004


Shinseido, Tokyo


 


2001


Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo


Group Exhibitions

2018


“温故維新(Onkoishin) – Art and Technique”, Saga Prefectural Art Museum


 


2017


“Japan – Sprits of Nature”, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden


 


2015


“COSMOS / INTIME – Collection Takahashi”, Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, France


“Mirror Neuron-TAKAHASHI COLLECTION”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery


“Japanese Art After Fukushima: Return of Godzilla”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia


“Collection Exhibition”, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano


 


2014


“Garden of Unearthly Delights: Works by Ikeda, Tenmyouya & teamLab”, Japan Society Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“Mindfullness! TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2014”, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi


 


2013


“Domani:The Art of Tomorrow2013”, The National Art center, Tokyo


“Zipangu-The Surge of Japanese Contemporary art”, Takasakishi Museum of art, Gunma traveled to Hachinohe, Akita


 


2012


“Art and Air”, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori


“Zipangu-The Surge of Japanese Contemporary art”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum


traveled to Takasaki City Museum, Gunma / Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori / Akita Museum of Modern Art (-2013)


 


2011


“Jalapagos”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka


4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARTPLAY Design Center etc., Moscow, Russia


“YOKOHAMA TORIENNALE2011”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa


“Zipangu-31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art”, Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo traveled to Takashimaya Osaka and Kyoto


“Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Japan Society, New York, U.S.A.


 


2010


““TDW-ART Jalapagos”, Tokyo Designer’s week 2010, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo


 


2009


“Kami: Silence -Action. Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper”, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany


 


2008


“NeotenyJapan -from Takahashi Collection”, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata / Akita Museum of Modern Art / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori / The Museum of Art Ehime (-2010)


“ORDER RECEIVED”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


“Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada, traveled to ArtGallery of Greater Victoria, Canada (-2010)


“Re-Imagining Asia”, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany 


“Another landscape: from Mori Art Collection”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


 


2007


“Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany


“Collector’s choice: Collection 2”, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 


“The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art,Kanagawa


 


2006


“ALLLOOKSAME? /TUTTTUGUALE? – Art from Japan, China and Korea”, The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy


 


2005


“Since 1994: Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2004


“Kotatsu-ha (Kotatsu school) 2 ”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2002


Hasegawa Space Concept Company, Tokyo


 


2001


“Expression to the next generation vol.9”, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano


 


1999


“Expression to the next generation vol.7”, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery,Nagano


 


1998


“Expression to the next generation vol.6”, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano


Awards

2014


The 25th Takashimaya Art Award


 


2007


The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Short-listed


 


2001


The 4th Hamamatsu Nationwide Public Exhibition of Painting, Great Prize


Award for Young Artist by Cultural Foundation, Saga Bank


 


1998


Design Award for Graduation Project, Tokyo University of the Arts


Hirayama Ikuo Grant, Tokyo University of the Arts


Public Collection

The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano


Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka


Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A


Saga Prefectural Art Museum