Manabu Ikeda

Victim, 2009, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 70 x 100 cm

Ark, 2005, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 89.5 x 130.5cm

History of Rise and Fall, 2006, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 200 x 200 cm

Lighthouse, 2009, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 22 x 27.3 cm

Regeneration, 2001, no other details available

Ice Stream, (episode from Foretaken), 2008, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 35 x 45 cm

Territory, 2004, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 42 x 59.5 cm

Foretoken, 2008, pen, acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board,190 x 340 cm

Foretoken, 2008, detail

Foretoken, 2008, detail

Foretoken, 2008, detail

Artist Bio

Born 1973 in Saga, Japan, Manabu Iked he now lives and works in Tokyo. He earned a BA in design in 1998 from the  Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, completing his MA at the same school in 200o.

Besides several group and solo  exhibitions in Japan, he has shown his work in Korea; in Canada (Hamilton and Victoria); in  Berlin,  Karlsruhe and Dresden in Germany; and in Torino, Italy.  His work will be shown in the US for the first time in the Japan Society’s upcoming show “Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art“

Manabu Ikeda Show Review on Tokyo Art Beat

Manabu Ikeda at Mizuma Art Gallery