Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura (Japan, 1951) studied at Osaka University from 1970 to 1972 and completed her training at the Santa Isabel de Hungría School of Fine Arts in Seville between 1973 and 1978. After moving to Zurich, she began producing the body of work for which she is recognized in 1980. She also began teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1991.

Her artistic practice is characterized by dreamlike landscapes and fragmented faces rendered through strokes intended to convey uncertainty within an ever-evolving body of work. During the 1990s, she focused on the female figure. Her style reflects an encounter between Western art history and Japanese tradition, incorporating a formal and thematic vocabulary that explores asymmetry, incompleteness, and ambiguity.

She held her first solo exhibition at the Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn, Germany, and shortly afterward undertook an artist residency in Nuremberg. Since 1980, she has exhibited internationally in cities including Basel, Melbourne, and Tokyo.

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