Artwork photographs by Adam Reich
YASUSHI IKEJIRI
Born in 1971 in Hokkaido, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, 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.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2019
Seattle Art Fair (CenturyLink Field Event Center, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Seattle)
2019
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
2015
SENSU: Japanese Fans (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2014
Kaiga ichi (Funabashi Tobu, Tokyo)
Hyakki Yako-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
AWARDS
2008
Selected for International Prize for Illustration Bologna Children's Book Fair
EXHIBITIONS
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji