Leiko ikemura biography of michael

2022

"Horizonte", Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
"Museum Ludwig, Cologne – History of a Collection with Civic Commitments", The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"A woman is a woman is a woman.

A 20th Anniversary Survey", James Harris Gallery, Seattle, United States
Usagi Kannon II, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Great Britain

2018

"Autofiktionen. Landschaften von Leiko Ikemura - Katharina Jahnke - Sabine Moritz", Cologne Contemporary Art. Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
"LEIKO IKEMURA UND CORSIN FONTANA", Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
"Redon and his World.

Stories Behind Pictures", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Asian Potential. Terra!" CESAC, Centro Sperimentale d’Arte, Caraglio, Italy

2000

"Visage", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1999

"Why make prints", Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico, Museo de la Estampa y del Dieño Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contempraneo, San José, Cosa Rica
"Noontime Meditation", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
KölnSkulptur 2, Sculpture Park of Cologne, Germany

1998

"Im Reich der Zeichnung", Aargauer Kusnthaus, Aarau, Kunstmuseum Chur, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellizona, Switzerland

1997

"A new expression of the earth", Luis Seoane Foundation, Coruña, Spain

1996

"Intangible Childhood", Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
"Female Identity", The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

1995

"Identités et Affinités", Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

1994

"Hautevolée", Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
"KARADA ART", Itabashi Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan

1993

"Romantik in der Kunst der Gegenwart.

Since 2014, she has held a professorship at the Joshibi University of Art and Design near Tokyo. 

Ikemura has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including HEREDIUM in South Korea (2024), Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin (2023), Feuerle Collection, Berlin (2023), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands (2023), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (2023), Being Art Museum, Shanghai (2023), Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (2022 & 2012), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2021), CAC La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències Valencia (2021), Stiftung St.

Matthäus, Berlin (2020), The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019), Kunstmuseum Basel (2019 & 1987), and Nordiska Akvarellmuseet Skarhamn (2019).

Ikemura’s work has also been presented in group exhibitions, including at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2023); The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (2022–23); 9th Beijing Biennale National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2022); Singer Laren Museum, Laren (2022); The National Art Center, Tokyo (2022); Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne (2022); AMMA Foundation, Mexico City (2022); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2022); Shandong Art Museum, Jinan (2022); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, (2022); The Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); ARTZUID 2021, Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, Amsterdam (2021); Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu (2021); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, (2021); Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi (2021); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2021), National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden (2020-21); and Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita (2020). 

Ikemura’s work is held in the permanent collections of international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou Paris, the Albertina, Vienna, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Sainsbury Center Norwich, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Bern, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, National Museum of Art Osaka, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Nagoya, Shiga Museum of Art Otsu, Toyota Municipal Art Museum, Mie Prefectural Art Museum Tsu City, and Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos.