IKEDA Manabu
1973

Born in Saga, Japan

1998

Tokyo University of the Arts, BFA in design

2000

Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA in design

2011

Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Overseas Study Grant
Recipient (Vancouver, Canada)

2013—Lives and works in Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Solo & Two person Exhibitions
2024“Flowers from the Wreckage” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa Cleveland), Ohio, USA

2023“Flowers from the Wreckage” Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada“Point of view: Manabu Ikeda and the animals” TAQUA, Saga, Japan2018“Animals” The Kagura Salon Ise-Jingu Shrine (Geku), Mie, Japan2017“Rebirth” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“IKEDA Manabu The Pen –Condensed Universe” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Traveled to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa /Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C., Tokyo, Japan2016

The Kagura Salon Ise-Jingu Shrine (Geku), Mie, Japan
Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

2014“Genten” Gallery KART, Tokyo, Japan2013“Ikeda Manabu & Tenmyouya Hisashi” Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
“IKEDA Manabu Exhibition” G-tokyo, Tokyo Midtown, Japan“Meltdown” West Vancouver Museum, Canada

2010“Focus” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2009

The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan

2008

Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2006“Landscape” Mizuma Action, Tokyo, Japan

2004

Shinseido, Tokyo, Japan

2001

Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2024“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo“Fellow Travelers of the Canvas: A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi

Ryutaro Collection”, Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
2023 “Edge of SAGA art” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan“Katsuhiko Motono Collection” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan

2022“OKADA Saburosuke and Excellent Selections Related to Saga Focusing on the collection of the Saga
Prefectural Art Museum” Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan“Microscope / Telescope - Art Near and Far” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan

2021“Kyushu-Yoga II: The Power of the Blackish Soil” Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan“Saga Bank Cultural Foundation 30th Anniversary : New face Award Exhibition” Saga PrefecturalMuseum, Japan“Shikkai” Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. Art Gallery, Tokyo / traveled to 4 other venues, Japan“Takeshi Kaneko and 30 Artists exhibition” The Saga University Art Museum, Japan

2020“Uninterrupted Wander” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Within Sight” Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, U.S.A.
“Collection: A Story Inspired by Seas” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan“Enku Grand Award Exhibition” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu

2019

“In-Between Land” Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, U.S.A.
“Takahashi Collection” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan“SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan travelledto Fukuoka, Tokyo (-2020)

2018“Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 15th Anniversary Exhibition : Catastrophe and the Power of Art”
Mori art Museum, Tokyo, Japan“Three Person Exhibition ‒ Forward Stroke ‒ ” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan“Expression to the next generation: Best selection” The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami
Gallery, Nagano, Japan“温故維新 (Onkoishin) – Art and Technique” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan2017“Japan – Sprits of Nature” Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden

2015“COSMOS / INTIME - Collection Takahashi” Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, France“Mirror Neuron-TAKAHASHI COLLECTION” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan“Japanese Art After Fukushima: Return of Godzilla” RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia“Collection Exhibition” The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan2014“Garden of Unearthly Delights: Works by Ikeda, Tenmyouya & teamLab” Japan Society Gallery,
New York, U.S.A.
“Mind fullness! TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2014” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan

2013“Domani: The Art of Tomorrow 2013 ” The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan2012“Zipangu - The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum,traveled to Takasaki City Museum, Gunma / Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori / Akita Museumof Modern Art (-2013), Japan“Art and Air” Aomori Museum of Art, Japan
2011“Jalapagos” Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan“4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art” ARTPLAY Design Center etc., Russia“YOKOHAMA TORIENNALE 2011” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan“Zipangu-31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese Contemporary Art” Nihombashi
Takashimaya S.C., Tokyo Japan / Traveled to Takashimaya Osaka and Kyoto, Japan“Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art” Japan Society Gallery,
New York, U.S.A.

2010“TDW-ART Jalapagos” Tokyo Designer’s week 2010, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan2009“Kami: Silence - Action. Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper” Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,Germany

2008“Neoteny Japan - from Takahashi Collection” Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, traveled toMuseum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / The Niigata Prefectural
Museum of Modern Art, Niigata / Akita Museum of Modern Art / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori/ The Museum of Art, Ehime (-2010), Japan“ORDER RECEIVED” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan”Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada, traveled to Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada (-2010)“Re-Imagining Asia” The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany“Another landscape: from Mori Art Collection” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2007“Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves” ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany“Collector’s choice: Collection 2” Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea“The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art,Kanagawa, Japan2006“ALLLOOKSAME? /TUTTTUGUALE? – Art from Japan, China and Korea” The Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy

2005“Since 1994: Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004“Kotatsu-ha (Kotatsu school) 2 ”Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2002

Hasegawa Space Concept Company, Tokyo, Japan

2001“Expression to the next generation vol.9” The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery,
Nagano, Japan

1999“Expression to the next generation vol.7” The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery,Nagano, Japan

1998“Expression to the next generation vol.6” The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery,Nagano, JapanAwards & Grants
2019 The 10th Enku Grand Award, Enku Award
2014 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 The 25th Takashimaya Art Award
2011 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Overseas Study Grant
2007 The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Short-listed
2001 The 4th Hamamatsu Nationwide Public Exhibition of Painting, Great PrizeAward for Young Artist by Cultural Foundation, Saga Bank
1998 Design Award for Graduation Project, Tokyo University of the Arts
Hirayama Ikuo Grant, Tokyo University of the Arts

Museum Collections
The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan
Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A
Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan