Akira Ikezoe is a New York-based artist born in Kochi, Japan. Ikezoe creates works in diverse disciplines, including drawing, painting, video, and performance, in relation to the balance between the forces we think of as outside or before ourselves, and the “civilizing” of ourselves. In Ikezoe’s works, the human figures are often presented in a chain of absurd actions that keep looping and woven into a metaphysical and mythological context that depicts a timeless melting point between human and natural boundaries. His solo exhibitions include Sometimes You Must Go Down to Go Up, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala (2019); Coconut Heads, Brennan & Griffin, New York (2018); If 6 was 9 by Proyectos Ultravioleta at NADA NY, New York (2016); El fin del este coincide con el fin del sur, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala (2015); Drawing, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York (2010); Repeater, SANAGI FINE ARTS, Tokyo (2009); and Ephemeral Garden, ESSO Gallery, New York (2008). In 2016 he received the Pollock-Krasner grant and an open-ended studio grant from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
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