Work history

1986 California Rehabilitation Center Lecturer (Norco California) 1987-89 Part-time lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles/California) 1988-90 Part-time lecturer at Otis Parsons College of Art (Los Angeles/California) 1995-99 Part-time professor, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University (Fukuoka) 1997-00 Part-time lecturer at Kyushu Zokei Junior College (Fukuoka City) 1988-08 Professor, Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles/California) 1987-12 Professor, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena California) 2014-17 Vice Principal of Osaka Entertainment Design College (Osaka) 2013 Art Center College of Design (ACCD) Special Lecturer in Integrated Studies (Pasadena California) 1997-20 Special Lecturer and Visiting Professor, Department of Japanese Painting, Musashino Art University (Tokyo) 1990-22 Part-time lecturer, Tama Art University, Special lecturer, Department of Japanese Painting (Tokyo)

Born in Moji Ward, Kitakyushu City in 1953

1978 Graduated from Florida State University College of Art

1980: Graduated from Florida State University Graduate School

1980-86: Studied under Shigemi and Shigeyuki Matsuo in Yame to learn how to make handmade Japanese paper.

Bio Yoshio Ikezaki 2024

Yoshio Ikezaki was born in Japan in 1953 and active in Los Angeles since 1986. He is an internationally exhibited visual artist and educator. He is a master sumi ink painter and also a master papermaker of Japanese tradition. His paintings and sculptures are grounded in Japanese aesthetic principle and philosophies, crafts and materials, interpreted in a contemporary context. His works express the profound power and vulnerability of nature in its relationship to humanity, thus illuminating the deeper meaning of the contemporary global environmental crisis.

Yoshio Ikezaki makes all of his own paper from cooking mulberry ber to create sculptures. He layers the paper into 50-to-200-layer blocks which he then forms by hand. Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York City has his 33 pieces of designed paper as a permanent collection.

He has more than 50 selected solo exhibits and over 100 group exhibits in museums and galleries in many countries, including USA, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and more for 40years.

His US exhibits include solo show at Pacic Asian Museum, A retrospective at LA Artcore Center of the Art, His most recent 2017 shows in U.S.A includes several solo exhibits at Kylin gallery in Beverly Hills, retrospective survey show at Alyce De Roulet Williamson gallery of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Traveling Exhibit of Washi Transformed (2021-2026) which take places at Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA, Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO, D’Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springeld MA, Morikawa Museum and Japanese Garden, Delray Beach FL, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH, Mingei International Museum, San Diego CA, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces NM.

LACMA collected his Sumi ink painting as a permanent collection. LACMA also recently collected his Paper sculpture which will be included for a group exhibit at LACMA new Pavilion in 2026.

He was a former professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA U.S.A and Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles CA U.S.A between 1987- 2012. He was lecturer at Tama Art University and Musashino Art University for many years.

His selected special lectures and workshops include Rhode Island School of Design (RI) U.S.A, Parson School of Art and Design (NYC) U.S.A, Pratt Art Institute (NYC) U.S.A, Cooper Union (NYC) U.S.A, Michigan University(MI) U.S.A, California Institute of Arts(CA) U.S.A, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Tama Art University (TYO) Japan, Musashino University (TKO) Japan , Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing China,

Yoshio Ikezaki

Born in Moji-ku, Kitakyushu City in 1953 Graduated from the College of Art at Florida State University (Bachelor's degree) 1980 Completed graduate school at Florida State University (MFA) 1980-1986 Studied under Shigemi and Shigeyuki Matsuo in Yame, Japan, learning handmade washi paper techniques 1987- Professor at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, USA). 1988- Lecturer at Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles) 1990- Part-time lecturer at Tama Art University. 1997- Special lecturer at Musashino Art University Created many three-dimensional sculptures using washi paper, including the "The Earth Breathes" series Holding solo and group exhibitions in Japan, the USA, and Europe

Special lecture

1987 Occidental College (Los Angeles California) 1987 Occidental College (Los Angeles California) 1988 California State University Los Angeles (Los Angeles/California) California Institute of Art (Valencia California) 1994 Pasadena City University (Pasadena California) 1996 Pacific Asian Art Museum (Pasadena California) Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (Providence Rhode Island) Parson School of Art (Manhattan/New York) 1997 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (Providence Rhode Island) Parson School of Art (Manhattan/New York) Pratt Art Institute (Brooklyn/New York) 1998 Parson School of Art (Manhattan/New York) Pratt Art Institute (Brooklyn/New York) 1999 Parson School of Art (Manhattan/New York) 1999 Pratt Art Institute (Brooklyn/New York) Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (Providence Rhode Island) Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, China) 2000 Parson School of Art (Manhattan/New York) Pratt Art Institute (Brooklyn/New York) 2001 Cooper Union (Manhattan/New York) 2004 Prapha University (Chinburi, Thailand) Rhode Island School of Design (Providence Rhode Island) 2007 Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) Kanazawa College of Art (Kanazawa, Japan) Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan) 2008 Kyoto Seika University (Kyoto, Japan) 2012 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Los Angeles/California) 2018 Los Angeles Japan Foundation

Awards/grants/commissions

1976 Sigma Lambda Phi Fraternity Best Brother Award 1978 Florida State University Honor Student Award 1977-78 National Dinner List Outstanding Work Award 1978 Lock Haven Museum of Art Award 1998 Japan Foundation Overseas Student Dispatch Grant 2001 American Craft Museum permanent collection Kitakyushu Expo 2001 Eco Life Mall Production for Fusion Salon 2002 Los Angeles Artcore Art Association Honor Award 2004 Selected for the 2004 Dutch Paper Biennale

Plan/ Sponsor/ Participation

1999-2004 Organized the Japan Wagami Association and the Handmade Washi Paper Club, exhibiting works throughout Japan 1992-2007 Organized the Wagami Paper Project in Los Angeles, collaborating with artists and designers 1997-2007 Organized the American-Japanese Artists International Exchange Exhibition, holding exhibitions of Kyushu and California artists every other year at art museums in both Japan and the US Kitakyushu City Expo Eco Life Mall Planning and creation of the Japanese paper multipurpose hall Fusion Salon 2006 Art Center College of Design Radical Craft Design Conference planning cooperation 2007-2008 Art Center College of Design Sustainability Summit planning cooperation 2008 Cumulus International Design Conference external advisor and concept planning, planning International Conference Hall, Kyoto Seika University 2008 Planning the Agency for Cultural Affairs' overseas project for Living National Treasure Kaga inlay artist Mamoru Nakagawa at universities and museums in California 2006-present Concluding inter-university exchange agreement between Tama Art University and Art Center College of Design, planning and creation of Pacific Rim 2009 Planning the international exchange exhibition between Musashino Art University and College of the Canyons in the United States

Publications/Books

1980-1983

Weekly Kitakyushu Commercial Newspaper: Responsible for illustrations of Seiki Miyake's novel "Straits"

2004

Catalogue publication for retrospective exhibition, LA Art Core, Los Angeles

2002-2006

Published essays in the monthly magazine "Sensho Ikenobo Hanaizumi" for five years

2009

A commemorative catalogue for a joint exhibition with Japanese painter Yoshiyuki Nakano is published at Shinjuku Takashimaya

Solo exhibition

2024 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2023 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2021 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2019 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2018 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2017 ACCD Williamson Gallery Art Center Retrospective (Pasadena, California) Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2012 Izutsuya Art Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Heather James Fine Art (Palm Desert, California) 2011 PYO Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo) 2009 Len Brown Art Gallery (Bodega Bay, California) 2008 Manhattan Beach Art Center (Manhattan Beach, California) 2006 Erman Gallery (Los Angeles, California) JOS Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2005 Miki Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Art Space Compass (Shimbashi, Tokyo) 2004 L.A. Artcore Gallery Retrospective 1978—2004 (Los Angeles, California) Shōkoku-ji Temple (Kyoto City) 2001 Kitakyushu Expo 2001 (Kitakyushu City) Eco Life Mall Fusion Salon Production 2000 Gallery Nishitomi (Kyoto City) L.A. Artcore Gallery (Los Angeles, California) 1999 City Gallery (Osaka City) Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1998 Gallery Space 21 (Shimbashi, Tokyo) Gallery Space Do (Fukuoka City) Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1997 Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1996 Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, California) Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1995 Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Gallery HIRO&Y (Kyobashi, Tokyo) 1993 Ventura University (Ventura, California) Gallery Gen (Ginza, Tokyo) Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1990 Kaneho Barry Museum (Thousand Oaks, California) 1989 Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California) 1986 Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) 1985 Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Shimonoseki Daimaru Gallery (Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi) Fukuoka Daimaru Gallery (Fukuoka City) 1984 Gallery 3S (Kitakyushu City) Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Shimonoseki City Museum of Art (Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi) 1983 Fukuoka City Art Museum (Fukuoka City) Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu City) 1982 Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Tokyo Bank (Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi) 1981 Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu City) Ishibashi Bridgestone Museum (Kurume City, Fukuoka) Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita City, Oita) Kokura Izutsuya Gallery (Kitakyushu City) Tenjin Art Gallery (Fukuoka City) Ube Izutsuya Gallery (Ube City, Yamaguchi) 1980 Abraham Baldwin College (Tifton, Georgia) R. J. K. Gallery (Atlanta, Georgia) 1979 Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, Florida) Gazette Art Museum (Gazette, Alabama) R. Mac Gallery (New Orleans, Louisiana) 1978 Bishop Studio Gallery (Tallahassee, Florida) Over the Rainbow Gallery (Tallahassee, Florida) Ann Jacob Gallery (Atlanta, Georgia) Gallery of Art (Panama City, Florida) 1977 Bishop Studio Gallery (Tallahassee, Florida) Francis Wolson Art Gallery (Miami, Florida) 1976 Camino Real Gallery (Boca Raton, Florida) North Miami Beach Gallery (Miami, Florida)

Group exhibition

2023-24 Mingei International Museum (San Diego, California) Las Cruces Museum of Art (Las Cruces, New Mexico) Palmer Museum of Art (Penn State, Pennsylvania) 2022-23 Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Florida) 2022 Longmont Museum (Longmont, Colorado) Springfield Museum (Springfield, Massachusetts) 2021 Arlington Museum of Art (Arlington, Pennsylvania) 2020 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) LA Art Fair (Los Angeles, California) 2018 Kylin Gallery (Beverly Hills, California) 2017 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Los Angeles, California) 2016 Sofia Paper Art Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria) Janina Monkute-Marks Museum (Kedainiai, Lithuania) 2015 Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu, Japan) Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan) Kyoto International Community Center (Kyoto, Japan) Kurokawa Inn Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) LA Art Fair (Los Angeles, California) San Francisco Fine Print Fair (San Francisco, California) Capital Art Fair (Washington, DC) NOADA Art Expo (Ohio, USA) 2014 Jean-Lurçat Museum (Angers, France) Deutsches Textilmuseum (Krefeld, Germany) LA Art Fair (Los Angeles, California) IFPDA New York Print Fair (Armory, New York) San Francisco Fine Print Fair (San Francisco, California) Capital Art Fair (Washington, DC) NOADA Art Expo (Ohio, USA) 2013 Cleveland Museum of Art, Fine Print Fair (Cleveland, Ohio) Los Angeles Art Fair (Los Angeles, California) IFPDA New York Print Fair (Armory, New York) NOADA Art Expo (Ohio, USA) 2012 Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) Heather James Fine Art (Palm Desert, California) Miami International Art Fair (Miami, Florida) 2011 Deutsches Textilmuseum (Krefeld, Germany) Jean-Lurçat Museum (Angers, France) 2010 Janina Monkute-Marks Museum (Kedainiai, Lithuania) National Museum of Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica) Heather James Fine Art (Jackson, Wyoming) Kanagawa Kenmin Hall (Yokohama, Japan) SculptureSite Gallery (San Francisco, California) Andrew Shire Gallery (Los Angeles, California) 2009 Lithuania Fiber Art Biennale (Kaunas, Lithuania) Josa Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Balt Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania) Musashino Gakuin University G-Hall Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) Heather James Fine Art (Palm Desert, California) 2008 Art Amsterdam Art Fair (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Samuel Freeman Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Heather James Fine Art (Palm Desert, California) Roller Fine Art (Laguna Beach, California) Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) Takashimaya Art Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan) 2007 Palos Verdes Art Center (Palos Verdes, California) Etienne Deolff Gallery (Ghent, Belgium) Adbos Gallery (Blam, France) Brouwerij Culture Center (Flanders, Belgium) Artcore Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Los Angeles International Airport (Los Angeles, California) JOS Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2006 Don Obermeyer Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Los Angeles International Airport (Los Angeles, California) JOS Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2005 Lois Neiter Fine Arts (Malibu, California) JOS Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2004 Netherlands Paper Biennale Apeldoorn Museum (Apeldoorn, Netherlands) Andrew Shire Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Burapha University (Chonburi, Thailand) Lois Neiter Fine Arts (Malibu, California) Len Brown Collection (Bodega Bay, California) Elman Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Rain Art Gallery (Os, Netherlands) 2003 LA Artcore Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Sunnam Gallery (Busan, South Korea) Elman Gallery (Los Angeles, California) 2002 Tigoo Museum (Tigoo, South Korea) Lois Neiter Fine Arts (Sherman Oaks, California) Fresh Paint Fine Arts (Culver City, California) 2001 Modern Art Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Kitakyushu Exposition 2001 Citizen’s Gallery (Kitakyushu, Japan) Gallery Blue (Palm Springs, California) 2000 Angel Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro, California) M&A Gallery (Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan) Miura Art Project (Miura City, Kanagawa, Japan) Kyushu Mingei Village Gallery (Kitakyushu, Japan) 1999 LA Artcore Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Pyeongtaek Cultural Center (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) Gyeonggi Art Museum (Tigoo, South Korea) 1998 Gallery Blue (Palm Springs, California) Pyeongtaek Cultural Center (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu, Japan) Gallery Enzu (Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan) 1997 Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu, Japan) 1996 Oita Prefectural Arts Center (Oita, Japan) 1995 Kokura Sogo Gallery (Kitakyushu, Japan) Raz Gallery (Osaka, Japan) 1993 Gallery Four (Los Angeles, California) 1991 Face Nineteen Gallery (San Diego, California) 1990 Contemporary Image Gallery (Los Angeles, California) 1989 Face Nineteen Gallery (San Diego, California) 1986 Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu, Japan) Dong-A Art Museum (Tigoo, South Korea) 1985 Dong-A Art Museum (Tigoo, South Korea) 1984 Fukuoka City Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) 1983 Kitakyushu City Art Museum (Kitakyushu, Japan) 1981 Earl Mac Gallery (New Orleans, Louisiana) 1980 Archway Gallery (Houston, Texas) Castle Gallery (New Orleans, Louisiana) Art League of Houston (Houston, Texas) Earl Mac Gallery (New Orleans, Louisiana) Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) 1979 Kane Gallery (Oak Park, Illinois) Gallery Contemporanea (Jacksonville, Florida) Balouci’s Original Gallery (St. Louis, Missouri) Anderson County Art Council (Anderson, South Carolina) 1978 Mississippi Craft Center (Ridgeland, Mississippi) Stoner Art Center (Shreveport, Louisiana) Rockhaven Art University (Winter Park, Florida) Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, Florida) Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) 1977 Bishop Studio Gallery (Tallahassee, Florida) 1976 North Miami Gallery (Miami, Florida)

Collaboration

1987 Sam Francis / Contemporary Artist - Silkscreen and paper creation for painting 1990 Tyrus Hamasen / Professor at Los Angeles Occidental College - Paper creation for book arts program and typography Lee Jeffee / Contemporary Artist - Paintings and paper creation for prints and sculptures for solo exhibitions in Helsinki and Paris 1990-91 Hiro Yamagata / Contemporary Artist - Paper creation for murals, painting paper, and sculpture canvases 1991 Anthony Zepeida / Contemporary artist, lecturer at ACCD, former master printer at Gemini Print Studio ・Paper production for prints, collages, and mixed media Eritrek Orr / Contemporary artist, sculptor ・Paper production for exhibition at Anders Toonberg Gallery in Denmark Richard Serra / Contemporary artist ・Paper production for monochrome silkscreen printing at the request of Gemini Print Studio 1992 Harriet Germain / Contemporary artist, former lecturer at UCLA ・Paper production for collages and paintings 1995 Katayama Takazumi / Road racing world champion, founder of Sorindo ・Creating a stage for Sorinbu with paper Shiba Hiroyasu / Japanese musician ・Set design for the concert "Amanoiwato no Hen" at Hibiki Hall Kisuko Kazuzumi / Violin soloist ・Set design for solo violin Tsuji Kimiya / Ceramic artist, Professor at Kyushu Sangyo University ・Set design for the performance "Tea ceremony and the world of Zen" 1996 Kazu Yanagi / Contemporary artist ・Paper creation for action painting Tamano Koichi / Butoh dancer ・Paper and dance installation Takahashi Yuji / Composer, pianist ・Set design for "Fox" at Hibiki Hall Shinomiya Yuji / Photographer, calligrapher Art Octopus ・Paper creation for improvised calligraphy 1997 Yukiko Miyazaki/Pianist ・Scene design for piano recitals at Hibiki Hall and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Peter Gessner/Director ・Scene design for "Medea" 1999 Rob Brexley/Contemporary music composer, trumpeter Alex Klein/Contemporary music composer, percussionist ・Handmade washi paper demonstration and improvised provision session 2001 Dentsu Inc. ・Fusion Salon production at Eco Life Mall, Kitakyushu Expo 2001 2003 Hatatoshi Ishibashi/Tamarind Master Printer, Head of L'Art Verite Print Studio ・Lithograph production for retrospective at LA Artcore Gallery, 2004 Tagawa Sangyo Co., Ltd. - Handmade washi paper production and design for plaster tile "LIMIX" 2008 Nakano Yoshiyuki, Japanese painter, professor of Japanese painting at Tama Art University Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yoshio Ikezaki and Yoshiyuki Nakano Nakano's washi paper production in collaboration with SUMI-WASHI 2009 Uchida Aguri, Japanese painter, professor of Japanese painting at Musashino Art University Collaborative production demonstration at LA ARTCORE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA