TEPPEI IKEHILA (JPN)
Born in 1978, Fukuoka, Japan
Lives & works in Tokyo, Japan
Ikehira graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many private exhibitions at the Shimane Art Museum, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery project N, and H.P.France Window Gallery among others. He was selected for the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art in 2013 and the VOCA exhibition in the Ueno Royal Museum in 2017. He is now involved in art festivals in NY and Miami and is receiving attention from overseas.He has produced many works at workshops and is working as an instructor at the Tokyo University Komaba Museum special exhibition "The boundary Draw ⇄ Cross". He has recently published "TOKYO MERMAID PRINCESS" that introduces Tokyo with new interpretation.
Resume
2013 Selected for the 16th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art Lives in Tokyo
2001 Graduated from Course of Health and Physical Education, Department of School Teachers Training, Faculty of Education, Shimane University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Modern Borrowed Scenery, SOKA ART, Tainan, Taiwan
2024 Needing Everything to Create Tomorrow, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo, Japan
2021
The Beginning Lion, NEWoMan, curated by HPGRP Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2021
The Last Lion, H.P.F RANCE WINDOW GALLERY MARUNOUCHI, Tokyo, Japan
2019
MITE HANASOU Exhibition, Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2018
From the Sea to the Mountains, From the Mountains to the Sea, Kenpoku Art Village Promotion Project, Ibaraki, Japan
2018 Teppei Ikehila: TOKYO MERMAID PRINCESS, Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Lighting the Present, HPGRP Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Kono Hana, H.P. France Window Marunouchi Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2013 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Project N 53, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Blue Earth, Gallery at Shimane Art Museum (01, 03, 06, 09, 12), Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
HIKIKOMORI ANYONE?, Maybe It's Not Someone Else's Problem, organized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
2025 Art Ugo-me-ku! Wonder Garden, SPIRAL GARDEN, ONE FUKUOKA BLDG., Fukuoka, Japan
2022 ART TAINAN, SOKA ART, Tainan, Taiwan
2022 ART TAIPEI, SOKA ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Hello JAPAN! Japanese Contemporary Artists Group Exhibition, SOKA ART with support from Patron Tainan, Taiwan
2020
Victory Bouquet Exhibition, Gifts from Artists to Medalists, Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2019 ARTO21 SHANGHAI, AURA GALLERY with support from Patron Project, Shanghai, China
2019 Art-Future, galerie bruno massa, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 PLAS, galerie bruno massa, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Art Fair Tokyo, galerie bruno massa, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Art Expo Malaysia Plus, galerie bruno massa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017 Art Busan, galerie bruno massa, Busan, South Korea
2017 Art Fair Tokyo, galerie bruno massa, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Vision VOCA at Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Bazaar Art Jakarta, galerie bruno massa, Jakarta, Indonesia
2016 Art Fair Tokyo, galerie bruno massa, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Blue Earth, Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
2015 KIAF, galerie bruno massa, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Art Osaka, galerie bruno massa, Osaka, Japan
2015 On Drawing Bondary, Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Art Fair Tokyo, galerie bruno massa, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Context Art Miami, galerie bruno massa, Miami, USA
2014 (e)merge art fair, galerie bruno massa, Washington DC, USA
2014 Art Osaka, galerie bruno massa, Osaka, Japan
2014 Select Fair, galerie bruno massa, New York City, USA
2013
The 16th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2013 Asa no Risoukyo, Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 OFFICE BACTERIA Universe, Medical Science Museum, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo OFFICE BACTERIA Universe / Planet, Gallery Conceal, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Storehouse of the wing, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo, Japan
Workshops and Public Projects
2026
Entrance Artwork, Tokyo International School, Takanawa Gateway City, Tokyo, Japan
2025
Opened the Teppei Ikehila Atelier Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2024
Multitude of Colors, Kitakyushu City, ART for SDGs, Kitakyushu, Japan
2019
A Health, jointly organized by Arts Alive and McGill University, Canada, in cooperation with Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
2019 Tokyo Borrowed Scenery, Artist Room, Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2019 THE ART HOUSE, Can This Art Survive for 100 Years? #34, Nippon Television, Japan
2012 Koinobori, Tachikawa City Civic Hall and Granduo Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Poster, Biofilms 5 International Conference,” Paris, France
2012 Mural painting, Chaplin, Daimaru, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Mural painting, IGL Complex Facility for the Elderly Seifu Shinto, Japan
2007 Hiroshima mural painting, Samuel Saijo Nursery, Hiroshima, Japan
2006 Mural painting, Hasu to Bara, Tokyo, Japan
Bibliography
Briandet, Romain. “Biofilms, quand les microbes s’organisent,” éditions Quæ, 2012, pp. 26, 27
Videos
2017 12 YouTube, Atelier in Teppei Ikehila
2013 09 YouTube, Tokyo MX News
Press
2015 04 The Window of Arts, Japan
Modern Borrowed Scenery: Sensoji Temple 1
2025
Oil on canvas
33 x 33 x 3 cm - 12,9 x 12,9 x 1,2 in
Infinite Fragments 3
2024
Oil on canvas
112 x 145 x 5 cm - 44 x 57 x 1,9 in
A Place Where Colors returns to Transparency
2022
Oil on canvas
162 x 162 x 5 cm - 63,8 x 63,8 x 1,9 in
Outside of Sight Breath - in a private collection, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Oil on canvas
162 x 162 x 5 cm - 63,8 x 63,8 x 1,9 in
Siesta - in a private collection, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Oil on canvas
162 x 162 x 5 cm - 63,8 x 63,8 x 1,9 in
Beginning of an End - in a private collection, Islas Canarias, Spain
2013
Oil on canvas
162 x 162 x 5 cm - 63,8 x 63,8 x 1,9 in
Future of Love- in a private collection, Tokyo, Japan
2026
Oil on canvas
162 x 162 x 5 cm - 63,8 x 63,8 x 1,9 in
