AKIKO IJICHI
graduated fromJoshibi universty of art and desing,
majored inJapanese traditional painting,"Nihonga".
:Artist statement
My consistent theme is "antinomy", which is "Life and death""Holy and evil"etc... and "Shiyogyo-mujiyo".
It is buddhist terminology.(it means"Nothing is permanent"or "Everything is changing")
I think these theme are due to the hardship in my youth.
We don't know what breake our dayly life and we feel keenly powerless when we come up against thread of life. But Human beings don't lose hope as long as they breath.They struggle and search for solution.
My girls of pictures are often said "they have strong gaze even though the atomosphere is melancoly or dark"
I think that's why the girls lose their hope.
:To be influenced
Rei Kamoi(Painter),Paul Delvaux(Painter),Billy Corgan(Musician),Leonor Fini(painter)Tetuya Isida(Painter)etc..
Solo Exhibition
2005 Gallery Lamer ,Tokyo
2010 "Inner Child" Art☆AIGA, Tokyo
2012 "Forbidden or sacred area"Gallery KUNIMATSU, Tokyo
2014 "The monster in me" Gallery Kunimatsu,Tokyo
2016 "Vision at the Farthest End I"Gallery KUNIMATSU, Tokyo
2018 "Vision at the Farthest End II"Gallery KUNIMATSU, Tokyo
2020 ”Eternal Recurrence" Gallery KUNIMARSU,Tokyo
2022 ”Dignity” HankyuUmeda Department Store,Osaka
2022 ”Dignity” Ikebukuro Department Store Main Store, Tokyo
Group Exhibition
2009 New year show, KUMUKUMU Gallery,NY
Girl's Fantasy, BunkamuraGallery,Tokyo
Expositiom L'art Fantastique Paris 2009, TenriGallery, Paris
Sannin Sanyou, GalleryNIKE, Tokyo
Paraiso, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
Profusion fantasy of Alice, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
2010 AIGA☆SHOW2010,ART☆AIGA, Tokyo
FACE, GalleryNIKE,Tokyo
Code:erotica BunkamuraGallery, Tokyo
2011 Girl's Fantasy, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
Erose/Tanatos, BunkamuraGallery, Tokyo
Shibuya Style2011, Shibuya Seibu department store, Tokyo
2013 Eros&Thanatos, BukamuraGallery ,Tokyo
2015 Ghost, Gallery KUNIMATUS,Tokyo
2016 The box garden of Girl-biotope- Span Art Gallery,Tokyo
2017 The beauty, Gallery Art Morimoto,Tokyo
Heart and Blood Group Show, Haven Gallery ,NY (Curator:Beautiful Bizarre Magazine )
2018 East/West group show, CoreyhelfordGallery ,LA
THE NEW ROMANTICS GroupShow, CoreyhelfordGallery ,LA
2019 Fantasy of ALICE, BunkamuraGallery ,Tokyo
Yamato-e and japanese playing card, Gallery Kunimatu,Tokyo
2020 Full of beautiful paintings - Reiwa - Yokohama Takashimaya 7th floor art gallery
NEXT Span Art Gallery Relocation Commemorative Exhibition Ginza Span Art Gallery
Yamato-e and Hanafuda (Seibu Ikebukuro main store)
Admiration for girls Span Art Gallery
2021 Admiration for girls: Bunkamura Gallery
Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2021 Hakata Hankyu
6th annual Power In Numbers Exhibition, Portland, USA, Gallery Nucleus
2023 Shoujohaku (Ikebukuro Seibu main store)
Feast of 2D and 3D, Span Art Gallery
Art Fair
2010 Art Taipei 2010, (From Span Art gallery) Taipei World Trade Center,Taipei
2012 Art Kyoto 2012, (From Span Art gallery and Gallery KUNIMATSU) Kyoto
Young Art Taioei, (From Span Art Gallery) Taipei
Art Taipei 2012 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU) Taipei World Trade Center,Taipei
2013 Art Fair Tokyo 2013 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU)
2014 Art Fair Tokyo 2014 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU)
2015 Art Fair Tokyo 2015 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU)
2016 Art Fair Tokyo 2016 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU)
2017 Art Fair Tokyo 2017 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU)
2018 Shenzhen international Art Fair (From Gallery KUNIMATSU) China
2019 Art Busan 2019 (From Gallery KUNIMATSU) Korea
2023 Art Fair Tokyo 2023 Gallery Kunimatsu Booth
Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2023
Museum
2014 [The history of beautiful girls]
Aomori prefectural art museum, Shizuoka prefectural art museum, Simane iwami museum.
(three museum joint exhibition)
2019 [Art History of Beautiful Girls]
Taipei Bei Shi ART Museum Taiwan
Prize
JIAS Art exhibition In italy, Italian art journalist prize
interview
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