YASUSHI IKEJIRI 池尻育志
1971
Born in Hokkaido, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo and Hokkaido, Japan
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.
EDUCATION
1991
Toyo Institute of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
Artwork photographs by Adam Reich
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, Japan
2017
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Solo Exhibition, Kichijoji Tokyu, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Solo Exhibition, Ikebukuro Tobu, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Yasushi Ikejiri Yusai-ten: Aruyoude Nai, Demo Yappari Aru Fukei, Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi, Japan
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Solo Exhibition, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
VOLTA New York, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, New York
A Contemporary Pursuit of the Modern, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
PASSION!!, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
SCOPE Miami Beach, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Miami, Florida
JOKER, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
NEW WAVE, Nagoya Sakae Mitsukoshi, Aichi, Japan
Exhibition of Time with Chopard, Chopard Boutique, Tokyo, Japan
2020
A SINGLE ANT BITE, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
On This Shore, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
JO SAI SHO FUKU (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck: Gods and Yōkai in Time of Pandemic, online exhibition, SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo & New York
2019
The Red: Man, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Seattle Art Fair, CenturyLink Field Event Center, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Seattle
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
2015
SENSU-ten, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Something Precious, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (through 2019)
Hyakki Yakou-ten, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kaiga ichi, Funabashi Tobu, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
2008
Selected for International Prize for Illustration Bologna Children’s Book Fair
EXHIBITIONS
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji